Added on 31/05/2013
Mondoweiss
Arab citizens of Israel , Asia , Barack Obama , Christian Palestinian , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jewish history , Jewish state , Nationalism , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Politics , South Africa , State of Palestine , United States , Views on the Arab–Israeli conflict , War/Conflict , Zionism
SAM BAHOUR, MONDOWEISS: There are three essential reasons why the fate of Palestine is a matter for global concern.
Added on 28/05/2013
Jonathan Cook
Asher Schechter , Asia , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli Jews , Israeli society , Israelis , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jerusalem , Nationalism , Palestinian terrorism , Politics , Religion/Belief , Second Intifada , War/Conflict , Western Asia , Zionism
JONATHAN COOK: As the physical threat against their security has waned so Israelis have been free to examine other areas of their society.
Added on 24/05/2013
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Barack Obama , Barack Obama foreign policy , Central Intelligence Agency , Congress , Drone attacks in Pakistan , Government , Islam , Islamic terrorism , Islamism , Obama , Politics , President , United States , Unmanned aerial vehicle , US government , War in Afghanistan
JUAN COLE: Some praise is due but Obama remains wedded to the idea that extra-judicial assassination is an effective counter-terror tool.
Added on 24/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Asia , Iraq , Israel , Levant , Middle East , Politics , Russia , United States , War/Conflict , Washington
RAMZY BAROUD: America’s current role as impotent looker-on is unprecedented in recent Middle Eastern history. This situation won’t continue indefinitely
Added on 18/05/2013
Juan Cole
Barack Obama , Benghazi , CBS NEWS INC. , Jimmy Carter , Politics , Republican Party , United States
JUAN COLE: There was a sustained attempt prior to the last U.S election to portray Barack Obama first as a latter day Jimmy Carter then as a Richard Nixon figure. Who did this?
Added on 17/05/2013
Steve Royston
Airstrikes , Barack Obama , Drone , Drone attacks in Pakistan , Military , Military terminology , Morality , Nawaz Sharif , Pakistan , Pakistan–United States relations , Signals intelligence , Unmanned aerial vehicle , War/Conflict
STEVE ROYSTON: Is killing via a missile fired remotely by a drone any different morally from killing by poison gas or a nuclear weapon?
Added on 14/05/2013
Jonathan Cook
Arab citizens of Israel , Arab League , Arab League Summit , Arab Peace Initiative , Arab–Israeli conflict , Benjamin Netanyahu , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Middle East , Palestinian Territories , Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Prime Minister , Second Intifada , United States , Washington
JONATHAN COOK: Here we go again with another re-heated so-called peace initiative. But the foundations on which it’s built are familiar and fragile
Added on 13/05/2013
Mondoweiss
Alan Dershowitz , Anti-Zionism , Antisemitism , Arab–Israeli conflict , BDS , Ethan Bronner , Israel , Israel Shahak , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jewish state , Meir Kahane , Norman Finkelstein , Peter Beinart , Politics , Religion/Belief , Stephen Hawking , West Bank , Zionism
MONDOWEISS: The heat surrounding Stephen Hawkin’s withdrawal from a conference in Israel added heat to a debate between two prominent commentators last week
Added on 11/05/2013
Richard Silverstein
Berlin Wall , Bibi Netanyahu , China , Fences , Fortification , Great Wall of China , Hadrian , Israel , Israeli West Bank barrier , Nerva–Antonine dynasty , Northumberland , Politics , Separation barriers , Walls
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Benjamin Netanyahu waxed enthusiastic about the inspiration that the Great Wall of China has provided for him.
Added on 08/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
2001-09-11 , America , Anti-Islam , Antisemitism , Arab–Israeli conflict , Criticism of religion , Islamophobia , Israel , Israel–Pakistan relations , Jewish history , Politics , Religion , Religious persecution , Secularism , United States , War/Conflict
RAMZY BAROUD: The anti-Muslim brigade who take to the media at every possible opportunity received another boost with the Boston bombing.
Added on 25/04/2013
The View From Fez
Africa , Casablanca , Morocco , Political geography , United States
THE VIEW FROM FEZ: As the plot to a Hollywood movie it would have been thrown out as incredible. But fact beat fiction this week in Morocco
Added on 24/04/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Abuse , Barack Obama , Ethics , Force-feeding , George W. Bush , Guantanamo Bay , Guantanamo Bay detainment camp , Guantanamo Bay detention camp , Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes , Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , Guantanamo prison , Human rights abuses , Internments , Legal issues related to the September 11 attacks , Mohammed Saghir , Politics , Presidency of George W. Bush , President , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay but still it remains open. And what a bizarre place it has become.
Added on 22/04/2013
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Al-Assad family , Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Assad , Chechnya , Damascus , Hafez Al Assad , Middle East , Obama , Politics , President , Russia , Shabeeha , Syria , Syrian uprising , United States , Vladimir Putin , War/Conflict
JUAN COLE: It’s clear that reverberations from the Boston bombings will spread to Chechnya and beyond. How will it impact the U.S view of Syria?
Added on 20/04/2013
Rob L. Wagner
Boston Bombing , Marathon , Road running , Saudi Arabia , Shatha Jameel Mufti
ROB L. WAGNER: She thought is was just an accident – a pipe had fallen – but the basic human instinct to get away took over
Added on 20/04/2013
Mondoweiss
Ali Gharib , Anti-Islam , Boston , Criticism of religion , Islam , Islamophobia , Islamophobic incidents , law enforcement , Religion , Secularism , The Boston Marathon , War/Conflict
ALEX KANE, MONDOWEISS: It began even before we discovered that the two perpetrators were indeed of Muslim extraction. It’s set to be very ugly again.
Added on 18/04/2013
Francis Matthew
Divided regions , Korea , North Korea , Politics , South Korea , United Arab Emirates
It is disturbing that the crisis in North Korea is moving forward with very little comment from the Arab world.
FRANCIS MATTHEW: It is disturbing that the crisis in North Korea is moving forward with very little comment from the Arab world.
Added on 05/04/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Ahmet Davutoglu , Benjamin Netanyahu , Gaza flotilla raid , Gaza Strip , Greece–Israel relations , International relations , Israel , Israel–Turkey relations , Istanbul , Libya , Middle East , MV Mavi Marmara , Politics , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Syria , Syria–Turkey relations , Turkey , United States , Washington
'Confused’ may be an appropriate term to describe Turkey’s current foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel in particular. The source of that confusion - aside from the appalling violence in Syria and earlier in Libya – is Turkey’s own mistakes.
RAMZY BAROUD: Turkey’s attempt to re-position itself as a fulcrum between East and West has come unstuck…
Added on 02/04/2013
Mondoweiss
Fertile Crescent , Forced migration , Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority , Gaza Strip , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Middle East , Palestinian National Authority , Palestinian nationalism , Palestinian people , Palestinian refugee , Palestinian Territories , Social Issues , State of Palestine
WALAA AL GHUSSEIN, MONDOWEISS: Asmaa lives in a densely populated area, is dangerously ill. She dreams of Mecca…
Added on 31/03/2013
Francis Matthew
Barack Obama , Central Intelligence Agency , Iraq , Politics , Shiite government in Iraq , Syria , United States
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has got itself into the confused position of fighting Sunni fighters in Iraq, but supporting some of them in Syria.
FRANCIS MATTHEW: The CIA is in the position of fighting Sunni fighters in Iraq, but supporting them in Syria.
Added on 30/03/2013
Mondoweiss
Arab–Israeli conflict , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Government , Human rights in Israel , International relations , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jerusalem , Mahmoud Abbas , Obama , PA , Palestinian nationalism , Palestinian Territories , Politics , State of Palestine , United States , West Bank
If you ever had a burning desire to see the American-Israeli alliance shine, there wasn't a better place to be than Jerusalem last week.
MONDOWEISS: If you had a desire to see the U.S.-Israeli alliance shine, there wasn’t a better place than Jerusalem last week.