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WikiLeaks: ‘Vaticaan Denkt Aan Eigen Belang In Midden Oosten’

Een Amerikaanse diplomaat beklaagt zich in een memo van 3 juli 2001 erover dat het Vaticaan weinig behulpzaam is in het Vredesproces en Midden Oosten diplomatie, omdat de Heilige Stoel [het bestuurlijke orgaan] vrijwel uitsluitend aan haar eigen… Lees verder

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Twee Kerken, Israel Veroordeelt en Irak Geprezen

Op dinsdag 2 april 2002 werd de Geboortekerk in Bethlehem bezet door zwaar bewapende Palestijnse terroristen die probeerden te ontsnappen aan een actie van het Israëlische leger, Operation Defensive Shield, die erop gericht was om Palestijnse terroristen te arresteren in de omgeving van… Continue reading

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Iraqi PM Al-Maliki In Tehran for Security Talks

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran on Monday morning to discuss the latest developments in bilateral relations as well as the issues related to security and the formation of the new Iraqi government… Continue reading

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President Talabani Addresses the General Debate of the 65th Session of the General Assembly

We seek to establish better relations with Arab and Islamic countries, and are committed to the resolutions of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In this spirit, we support the Palestinian people’s struggle for the adoption of their Inalienable Rights, including the establishment of a Palestinian State on the land of Palestine… Continue reading

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The Real Middle Eastern Cold War

This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between the “revolutionary bloc,” led chiefly by Iran, Syria, and more recently Turkey, and the “status-quo bloc,” led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt… Continue reading

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Hizballah Spiritual Leader Muhammad Fadlallah died in a Beirut Hospital

Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh one of Shiite Islam’s main religious figures, died Sunday after a long illness. He was not a voice of moderation at all… Continue reading

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The Mufti’s WWII Fatwah Against Britain

On April 1, 1941 Nazi sympathizer Rashid Ali al-Gaylani lead a pro-Nazi military coup in Iraq [known as the 1941 Iraqi coup d’état] together with four pro-Nazi Iraqi… Continue reading

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Remembering the Farhud – the Mufti Inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Farhud, the arabic Krystallnacht (1941). Looting of property and beating up of Jews took place in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, Irbil, Basrah, Amara and Fallujah. The killing of Jews took place in Baghdad alone. Today, not a single Jew is left in Iraq… Continue reading

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The Alexandria Protocol

In 1942, the British War Cabinet needed the support of the colonies to survive against Nazi Germany. The British organized a dialogue with representatives of Arab countries whose outcome was the Alexandria Protocol… Continue reading

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The Obama Administration’s Middle East Disaster

Here are nine huge problems going on right now that are not being addressed by the U.S. government and are barely comprehended by the U.S. debate and large portions of the mass media… Continue reading

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A Matter Of Taste

The elections to the UN Human Rights Council brought onto that body such human rights’ violators as Libya, Angola, Malaysia, and Uganda. Indeed, 80 percent of UN members, thought the Qadhafi dictatorship… Continue reading

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The spirit of Emir Faisal I

We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in race (and) have suffered similar oppression at the hands of powers stronger than themselves… Continue reading