Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’
Divide and Rule the Muslim World
Spiegel | By Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand | 15 July 2010 Persian Isolation A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East Israel and the Arab states near the Persian Gulf recognize a common threat: the regime in Tehran. A regional diplomat has not even ruled out support by the Arab states for a military strike to end [...]
“This guy doesn’t get it, does he?” — Netanyahu, on Obama’s first criticism of Israel
The Independent | By Robert Fisk | 17 July 2010 They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason It is the season of grovelling. Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the [...]
The price of truth in Anglo-America
Jordan Times | By Rami G. Khouri | 16 July 2010 Two fascinating yet troubling incidents took place in the past week related to American and British public figures - a British ambassador and an American journalist - who had their fingers burned for acknowledging the deep respect that the late Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese [...]
Obama Mends fences with Netanyahu
People's Daily | By Wen Xian in U.S. | 14 July 2010 A change and not a change in U.S. Middle East policy U.S. President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 6, or last Tuesday, and they met at the same Oval office on March 23. The Obama administration's treatment of Netanyahu at the first [...]
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
The Iranian Threat
ZSpace | By Noam Chomsky | 28 June 2010 The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. Congress has just strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding its [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
Remembering the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty
Mondoweiss | ByPhilip Weiss | 31 May 2010 The U.S.S. Liberty and the culture of impunity The attack on the USS Liberty is one of the great enigmas of US-Israel relations. On June 8, 1967, in the middle of the Six-Day War, Israeli planes attacked an American spy ship, the Liberty, that was in international waters off the coast of Egypt, [...]
Mubarak’s Last Breath
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 10 · 27 May 2010 | pages 6-10 Adam Shatz reports from Egypt On 6 October 1981, President Anwar al-Sadat attended a parade to mark the anniversary of the crossing of the Suez Canal in the 1973 war with Israel. It was also an occasion to display the American, British and French aircraft Egypt had [...]
Will Turkey Vote for Sanctions on Iran?
Reuters (India) | By Ibon Villelabeitia | 5 February 2010 Turkey's balancing act may soon face test on Iran ISTANBUL Reuters) - Even for a country that boasts about being a bridge between East and West, the Middle East and Europe, Turkey's diplomacy this week must have seemed a bit of a perilous balancing act. Underlying unique [...]
