Added on 17/10/2011
Jonathan Cook
Abu Dhabi , Army , Avigdor Lieberman , Benjamin Netanyahu , Israel , Israeli army , Mahmoud Abbas , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Prime Minister , Shin Bet , South Africa , Tel Aviv , The Green Line , The National , United Nations , United States , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: Settlers have raised the stakes by attacking mosques within Arab communities that have been traditionally utterly loyal to Israel.
Added on 13/10/2011
Common Ground News Service
Amman , Ariel Sharon , Army , Common Ground News Service , Israel , J14 , Jordan , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Tel Aviv , the independent , UN General Assembly
HAGGAI MATAR: Over the years I have learnt that refusal to serve in the army offers a very strong bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.
Added on 11/10/2011
Rob L. Wagner
Ankara , Arabs , Bahrain , Bar Ilan University , Bulgaria , Davos , Egypt , France , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Germany , Hamas , Iran , Israel , Istanbul , Mediterranean coast , President , Prime Minister , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Russia , Shimon Peres , Syria , Tel Aviv , Tourism , Tunisia , Turkey , United Kingdom , United Nations , World Economic Forum
ROB L. WAGNER: Shopkeepers easily transition from Turkish to Russian, Polish and German. Yet Hebrew, once among the languages, is virtually non-existent.
Added on 30/09/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Egypt , Gaza , Hamas , IDF , Israel , Israeli Air Force , Israeli army , Jerusalem , Media coverage , New York Times , news networks , Palestine , Tel Aviv , The Telegraph , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: An unmanned Israeli drone fired a missile at Ibrahim Zaza. For thirty days, against all odds, he survived.
Added on 26/09/2011
Juan Cole
Bahrain , Bahrain government , Barack Obama , Binyamin Netanyahu , Egypt , France , Gaza , Harry Truman , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Israeli government , Libya , Manama , Middle East , Nigeria , Obama , Obama administration , Oslo , Palestine , Palestine Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , Saudi Arabia , Tel Aviv , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States , Washington , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Obama has squandered the positives by pandering to the right wing forces in Manama and Tel Aviv. This is change the Arab youth won’t be able to believe in.
Added on 28/08/2011
Mondoweiss
Arab League , Avigdor Lieberman , Doha , Elliot Abrams , Hamas , Israel , Jordan Times , Lebanon , Maariv , Middle East , Qatar , Tel Aviv , The Daily Star , United Nations
ANNIE, MONDOWEISS: The relationship between Israel and its BFF in the Gulf appear to have broken down completely.
Added on 11/08/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Africa , Allah , Amman , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Maan News Agency , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Qatari Government , Ramadan , Somalia , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , West Bank
RAMZY BAROUD: There has been much criticism of the paltry response by the Muslim world to the famine in Somalia. Gazans show the way forward.
Added on 10/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Aziz Abu Sarah , Center for World Religions , Columbia University , Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution , George Mason University , Israel , Jerusalem , Nelson Mandela , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Peace , President , Rabbi , South Africa , Tel Aviv , United Nations , West Bank
ROI BEN-YEHUDA, AZIZ ABU SARAH, CGNEWS: Are you pro-solution or pro-conflict? Pro-solution Palestinians and Israelis launch a new movement.
Added on 05/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Civil society , Hebron , Israel , Jerusalem , Journalist , Ministry of Education , Palestine , settlement products , Tel Aviv , West Bank
MAIRAV ZONSZEIN, CGNEWS: The recently passed Anti-Boycott law effectively erases the distinction between Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Added on 17/07/2011
Common Ground News Service
Ben Gurion , Ben-Gurion airport , Israel , Jerusalem , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Tel Aviv , West Bank
R. TAYLOR, MONDOWEISS: One woman’s story of her treatment at the hands of the Israeli authorities serves as a parable for how the country can turn its friends against it.
Added on 06/06/2011
Juan Cole
Golan Heights , Israel , Palestine , Syria , Tear gas , Tel Aviv , United Nations
JUAN COLE: Israeli troops have a wide variety of non-lethal means of dealing with unarmed protesters. That they opted for live ammunition.
Added on 21/05/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Binyamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Fatah , George Mitchell , Hamas , Israel , Jerusalem , Khaled Meshaal , Middle East , Minister of Justice , Netanyahu’s government , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Tel Aviv , The Guardian , Tzipi Livni , United Nations , United States , Washington , West Bank
RAMZY BAROUD: The newly unified Palestinian leadership faces a very rough few months in the lead-up to the key United Nations vote in September.
Added on 05/05/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Ahmet Davutoglu , Ali Akbar Salehi , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Camp David , Congress , Damascus , Egypt , Fatah , Gaza , Hamas , Iran , Islamic Republic of Iran , Israel , Jennifer Rubin , Lebanon , Mahmoud Abbas , Media coverage , Middle East , Nabil al-Arabi , Obama administration , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian government , Prime Minister , Tel Aviv , The New York Times , Turkey , United States , unnamed official , Washington , Washington Post , West Bank
RAMZY BAROUD: With Egypt reaching out to Israeli foes and the Palestinian agreement to work together Israel’s policy of division is in tatters.
Added on 19/03/2011
James M. Dorsey
2010 World Cup , Football , Haifa , Israel , metal , Palestine , Qatar , Soccer , Sudan , Tel Aviv , West Bank
JAMES M. DORSEY: Soccer is the one of the few things that lets Palestinians and Israelis at times look beyond their daily confrontations.
Added on 13/03/2011
Mondoweiss
Bahrain , Bush , Clinton , Democracy , Egypt , Israel , Libya , Middle East , Morocco , Obama administration , Saudi Arabia , Tel Aviv , The Wall Street Journal , Tunisia , United States , Washington
MONDOWEISS: ‘Regime alteration’ is the new buzz phrase in the Washington corridors of power. The Obama administration is advocating a ‘tortoise’ rather than a ‘hare’ strategy to those seeking change in the region. Will it resonate?
Added on 05/03/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Avigdor Lieberman , Benjamin Netanyahu , Chris McGreal , Egypt , Gaza , Haaretz , Hamas , Hizballah , Iran , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli military , Jerusalem , Middle East , Moammar Gadhafi , Prime Minister , Propoganda , Silvan Shalom , Tehran , Tel Aviv , The Guardian , Tunisia , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: The Arab people who have taken to the streets to demand democracy are not playing to Israeli caricatures.
Added on 27/02/2011
David
Iran , Iraq , Israel , Tel Aviv , The Guardian
Israel “…… its belligerent posturing towards first Iraq and now Iran in the east”.
What are you smoking? Last I heard it was Saddam who fired 43 Scuds at Tel Aviv and Israel stood still. Dinnerjacket is often heard wiping Israel off the map.
I fear you are lying Cook. I assume that is why you left the Guardian, even they could not print this nonsense.
Added on 25/02/2011
Jonathan Cook
Anwar Sadat , Army , Benjamin Netanyahu , Camp David , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egyptian army , Ehud Barak , F-35 , Gabi Ashkenazi , Gamal Abdel Nasser , Gaza , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli military , Israeli Military Strength , Lebanon , Middle East , Military hardware , Olive oil , Prime Minister , Tel Aviv , United States , Washington
JONATHAN COOK: Israel has always presented itself as ‘the villa in the jungle’. The military in ‘the villa’ see an opportunity to secure additional U.S. largess.
Added on 21/02/2011
Michael J. Totten
Afghanistan , Africa , Algeria , America , Basketball , Beirut , Bolivia , Brussels , Colonel , Costa Rica , Darfur , Fateh , France , Green Square , Guatemala , Hawaii , Internet cafés , Italy , Kansas , Law , Lawrence , Lebanon , Libya , London , Los Angeles , Mediterranean , Mediterranean Sea , Middle East , Morocco , Muammar Qaddafi , New York , North Korea , Oil , Palestinian Territories , Paris , Pepsi , Philippines , Prague , President , Sahara , Seattle , shopkeeper , Tel Aviv , travel ban , Tripoli , Tunisia , Turkey , United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization , US Federal Reserve , Vienna
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Two years ago I spent time in Libya. It seems like a good time to revisit my experience of a kind people but an overarching, clamping presence.
Added on 04/12/2010
Jonathan Cook
Afghanistan , Europe , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Middle East , Pakistan , Saudi Arabia , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , United States Army , Washington , Wikileaks
JONATHAN COOK: At work here is a set of global forces that the US, in its hubris, believed it could tame in its own interests. By the early ’90s that arrogance manifested itself in the claim of the “end of history…
