Posted on Wed, August 10, 2011 at 22:24 pm CEST
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Hating America and Rejecting Peace with Israel Portrayed as Virtuous

It’s fascinating to see not only the Middle East going backward but Western analysts and officials cheering on a return to even more war and terrorism… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Egypt • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict 
Posted on Fri, June 3, 2011 at 00:57 am CEST
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Economy: Humpty Obumpty and the Arab Spring

Pay close attention to this article by the analytical artist who calls himself “Spengler.” He has been arguing… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Egypt • G8 • Islamic Countries • Morocco • Syria • The Middle East • Tunisia • Yemen 
Posted on Thu, June 2, 2011 at 15:16 pm CEST
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The People Have Voted and Barack Obama Is Not The Next “Muslim Idol”

How can anybody continue to spout nonsense about how President Barack Obama’s policies and endless attempts to… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Countries • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, March 31, 2011 at 00:39 am CEST
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Syria: Bashar al-Assad to Demonstrators: Surrender or Die

Nowadays, Western officials and journalists seem to think nowadays that if you are a Middle East dictator and people start demonstrating… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, March 25, 2011 at 22:06 pm CET
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Arab revolts and Turkey’s new ‘old Kemalists’

The Arab revolts of 2011 awakened interest in the Turkish model, exemplifying an Islamist-rooted party building a liberal democracy… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Armenia • Democracy • Islamism • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, March 22, 2011 at 17:01 pm CET
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Building the New Mid-East

Today’s cartoon is from twenty years ago this month! Back then the media and all the pundits explained that as soon as the dust of war… Continue reading

Topics: Islamic Countries • Satire • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, February 15, 2011 at 03:51 am CET
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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Rejects Khamenei Calls for Iran-style Islamic State

Egypt’s main opposition party, the Muslim Brotherhood, have rejected calls by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for an Islamic Revolution similar to… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sat, November 13, 2010 at 05:10 am CET
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The Origin Of The Dispute

On November 29, 1947 – the day the United Nations Assembly decided to recommend the partition of Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state – there were no Arab refugees. The area allotted to the Jewish state was much smaller even than that established by the Armistice lines of 1949… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Fact and Fantasy • Islamic Countries • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, December 25, 2009 at 22:59 pm CET
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Seventy years ago, British Palestine could have become a Palestinian Arab State

What is truly remarkable is that the debate at that time and on that specific day was almost precisely identical to the situation on the day you’re reading this article. If you can understand these events, it is possible to comprehend why the conflict has ended this long with no end in sight… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict