Obama as an Arab reformer

As the American President has said, the mass demonstrations all over the Arab world do in fact indicate more than anything else "a longing of freedom" that has been building up for years. --- Salman Masalha Obama as an Arab reformer If we ignore the reference to the Israeli-Palestinian...

Vivian Eden | EGYPT ON TELEVISION

Vivian Eden EGYPT ON TELEVISION We watch Egypt on television just one country away. Off the screen, down the side streets behind closed windows and doors many people wait. The television tells them truth and lies.They watch the footage shot on high:Tops of men’s heads all look the same,like lentils for sorting on a plate.Where is my husband, my...
MIDDLE EAST
  • War Games

    Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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  • Arab Nationalism?

    The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE
  • For Jews only

    The Jewish messianic understanding of the "Land of Israel" is what dictated the move. Now Netanyahu will surely find a way around the High Court with general Jewish support.
  • Make way for Barghouti

    As long as Abbas bears the title “president of Palestine,” he will keep sitting there praising Palestine. But he will be bearing this name in vain...
 

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