Added on 05/09/2012
Mondoweiss
America , Ariel Sharon , Baghdad , Caterpillar , Food and Drink , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Germany , guard , International Solidarity Movement , Iraq , Israel , Jennifer Loewenstein , Lebanon , Mainstream media , Middle East , Netanyahu , Netherlands , New York , Oded Gershon , Oil , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Rachel Corrie , United States , Wisconsin
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN, MONDOWEISS: Both individuals wrote diaries about their experience of oppression. Only one, however, is globally celebrated.
Added on 30/08/2012
Richard Silverstein
Activist , Artist , Border Police , Brian Avery , British government , Emily Henochowicz , Furkan Dogan , Gaza , IDF , Institute for Middle East Understanding , International Solidarity Movement , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli government , James Miller , Lebanon , Nilin , Oakland , Qalandiya checkpoint , Rachel Corrie , Tom Hurndall , United Nations , United States , West Bank
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The IDF (and Border Police) are murderers. They kill civilians. Unarmed civilians. Who protest for justice and human rights. This is no defensive army.
Added on 20/08/2012
Juan Cole
Ali Khamenei , America , Barack Obama , Barak , Binyamin Netanyahu , Democratic Party , Ehud Barak , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Iran , Israel , Israeli government , Lebanon , Middle East , Netanyahu , Obama , President , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , Shimon Peres , United States , US intelligence , USG , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Netanyahu and Barak were intent on boxing Obama into a corner. But the wily octogenarian, Shimon Peres, has stepped in.
Added on 15/08/2012
Richard Silverstein
Arab Spring , Army , Haaretz , IDF , Iran , Israel , J14 , Lebanon , Mossad , Netanyahu , Shin Bet
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The treasury is proposing $12-billion, while Defense $15-billion. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu is expected to go with the Defense Ministry
Added on 08/08/2012
Jonathan Cook
Al Qaeda , Amira Hass , Ariel Sharon , Army , Avigdor Lieberman , Ben Gurion University , Benedict XVI , Benjamin Netanyahu , Bethlehem , central Israel , Christmas , Civil Administration , councillor , David Ben Gurion , Easter , Electricity , Ethiopia , first prime minister , Foreign media , Gaza , geographer , George W. Bush , Germany , God , Haifa , Haifa University , High Court , Housing Minister , Human Rights Association , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli government , Israeli parliament , Israeli police , Israel’s military , Jaffa , Jerusalem , Jesus , Jewish National Fund , Jews , Jordan , Journalist , Lebanon , London , Media coverage , military governor , Nazareth , Negev , Oslo , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Rabbi , Rabin , Rubber bullets , Russia , Sea of Galilee , Security services , Shimon Gapso , Shin Bet , Somalia , Soviet Union , Syria , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: … Expropriations would become a staple of life over the next three decades as more than 70 per cent of the land belonging to Palestinians was nationalized
Added on 03/08/2012
Francis Matthew
America , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Brazil , China , Egypt , Foreign Policy , Gaza , George W. Bush , Hamas , Hizballah , India , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Libya , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Syria , Tunisia , Turkey , United Nations , United States
FRANCIS MATTHEW: US Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is suggesting a dangerous return to a simplistic foreign policy in which foreigners are divided simply into friends and foes.
Added on 31/07/2012
Francis Matthew
Aleppo , Army , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Golan Heights , Lebanon , Maher al-Assad , Milwaukee , President , Syria , Syrian army , Syrian Observatory
FRANCIS MATTHEW: This question is working deep into your mind, and leaving you sleepless at night with worry. Can you refuse to fire on fellow Syrians?
Added on 29/07/2012
Ramzy Baroud
Arab League , Bashar al-Assad , Beirut , Damascus , Fatah , Ghassan Kanafani , Hamas , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Mossad , Novelist , Palestine , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , Ramallah , Rashad Abu Shawar , Refugees , Saddam Hussein , Syria , Television network , The Jerusalem Post , United Nations , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: There has been a flood of Palestinian refugees into Syria and they’re facing desperate times.
Added on 28/07/2012
Crossroads Arabia
Christianity , Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice , Islam , Lebanon , Maryam , Ramadan , Saudi Arabia , Saudi Gazette
CROSSROADS ARABIA: It’s the first time that I can recall such a story being covered by the Saudi media.
Added on 25/07/2012
Common Ground News Service
Amman , Beirut , Cairo , Economy , Employment , Entrepreneur , Europe , Google+ , Ihsan Jawad , Iraq , Lebanon , Libya , Middle East , Nada Akl , oil reserves , Qatar Foundation , Social Media , Tahrir Square , United Arab Emirates , United States , Yahoo!
NADA AKL, CGNEWS: Positive role models and an increasingly connected world are having a positive effect in encouraging young entrepreneurs
Added on 23/07/2012
Tabsir
Al Qaeda , Egypt , Hamas , Hizballah , Islam , Jordan , Lebanon , Middle East , Taliban , Tunisia , Turkey
DANIEL M. VARISCO: A recently released survey by the influential Pew Foundation has found that support among ordinary citizens for extremists is very low.
Added on 16/07/2012
Layla
Australia , Canada , EUR , Lebanon , Middle East , pence , Philippines , SAR , Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States
LAYLAH: Are Saudi employees not seen as efficient or highly trained as the western nurses are and thus not deserving as much pay?
Added on 12/07/2012
Mich Cafe
Congress , Electronic Frontier Foundation , free and open Internet , free press , Geneva , Hillary Clinton , Human Rights Council , Internet , Internet freedom , Internet users , Lebanon , Mich Cafe , Mobile Phones , Online activism , Secretary of State , Social Media , Twitter , United Nations , United Nations Human Rights Council , United States
MICH CAFE: The democratic freedoms enabled by access to the internet are under threat from a variety of sources.
Added on 11/07/2012
Rob L. Wagner
Egypt , Europe , Haaretz , Israel , Israeli army , Lebanon , Levant , Libya , Middle East , Mohammed Morsi , Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt , North Africa , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Authority , President , Ramallah , Syria , Tunisia , United States
ROB L. WAGNER: The changes throughout the Arab world have made Israel very nervous indeed. And a nervous Israel is a dangerous Israel.
Added on 10/07/2012
Alexander McNabb
Beirut , Cliffhouse restaurant , Dubai , Geekfest , Lebanon , Shemlan
ALEXANDER MCNABB: It’s impossible to resist Beirut’s diverse and immutable charms. So why bother?
Added on 03/07/2012
Mondoweiss
Afghanistan , America , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Bernard Lewis , Cairo , Clinton , East Africa , Egypt , Europe , Federal Bureau of Investigation , George Bush , George W. Bush , Ground Zero mosque , Hamas , Hiroshima , Hizballah , Iraq , Islam , Islamophobia , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , legal systems , Libya , Likud Party , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , Nagasaki , New York city , New York Times , North Africa , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Obama administration , Pakistan , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , Peter King , President , Rutgers University , Secretary of State , Somalia , Soviet Union , the Associated Press , The New York Times , United States , Washington DC , World Trade Center , Yemen
ALEX KANE, MONDOWEISS: Deepa Kumar has written a detailed study of Islamophobia which links it inextricably to the cause of Empire
Added on 28/06/2012
Mondoweiss
China , Ehud Barak , Gaza , Gaza City , Ha , Israel , Jerusalem , Journalist , Lebanon , LIRA , mass transportation , Middle East , Noam Sheizaf , Oslo , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Second Temple , Tel Aviv , The Jerusalem Post , Tourism , West Bank
REBECCA STEIN, MONDOWEISS: They wandered into Jerusalem as gawping tourists after the Six Day war. 45 years on not much has changed
Added on 28/06/2012
Ramzy Baroud
Al Qaeda , Arab League , Beirut , Fatah , Israel , Israeli army , Jordan , Lebanese army , Lebanese government , Lebanon , Media outlets , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , Palestinians , Real Estate , Syria , The Daily Star , Tripoli , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: 450,000 UN-registered refugees live in Lebanon. They subsist in poverty, living in 12 concentration style camps, denied basic rights and lack nominal political horizons.
Added on 27/06/2012
Common Ground News Service
Lebanon , Tripoli
CG NEWS, RITA CHEMALY: Lebanese civil society activists are condemning the spread of sectarian violence through Facebook, Twitter and blogs
Added on 22/06/2012
Common Ground News Service
Energy , Gaza , Hizballah , Holocaust , Iran , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Middle East , Palestine , Ukraine
COMMON GROUND NEWS: Two individuals confronted their own prejudices in a bid to help others from their side do the same.
