Is the Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation as threatening as the Israeli Government makes it out to be?
With the buzzing news surrounding the reconciliation deal struck between Fatah and Hamas there seems to be the usual nay-sayers to a just peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. These nay-sayers include the US Congress, Lieberman, Netanyahu, and Barak, or simply the US and Israeli governments. After the signing of the unity agreement Lieberman pronounced … Read more
Rebuttal of Haaretz’s A.B. Yehoshua’s Article
As I have mentioned before I am a news masochist. Everytime I see an article I know I will disagree with to a point, I will read if nothing else but to anger myself that people really believe the filth they put forward as news or information. I came across this article today in Haaretz … Read more
Egyptian Popular Support for Revoking of Peace Treaty
Since protests began in Egypt and especially since Mubarak was indirectly ousted from power the issue of the Camp David agreement has been on Israeli and American minds. There is a new poll released by Haaretz today that shows 54% of Egyptians would like a revoking of the 1979 Camp David agreement between Sadat and Begin. … Read more
Peres’ Peace Plan
Shimon Peres came out today with a proposal that Israel comes out with its own Peace Initiative. Shimon Peres is considered by most within Israel and the mainstream media as the Israeli man of peace. This image came about for a handful of reasons. The first is he was paired Shamir in a unity government in the 1980s … Read more
Abbas Warns US About Obstructing UN Statehood Declaration?
It seems Mahmoud Abbas is trying to rally the world behind his unilateral declaration of statehood idea by visiting and discussing the issue with world leaders. He has succeeded in persuading a good amount of countries, including EU countries, to the case for his unilateral decision but the most important state actor the United States … Read more
Syria surpasses Israel?
I was looking through the headlines and came across this article. It discusses the Emergency Law lifting in Syria and links it to the issue of Israel’s Emergency Law that has been in place since 1948, 4 days after the establishment of the State to be exact. The law is renewed every year, in a … Read more
American Tax-Exempt Support of Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Alex Kane on MondoWeiss had a good article today where he posted the American Treasury’s response to an inquiry regarding tax-exempt donations that have reached Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. In his words, reiterating the Treasury’s response: “The department responded, in so many words, that they don’t do anything about it, despite the very … Read more
Iran’s Position On Syrian Uprising
Since the outbreak of the now termed “Arab Spring” protests across the Arab World Iran has been actively supporting the protestors in their media except in two cases. The first and not as important case is Libya, which seems to stem more from a disdain of Western policy regarding the issue than a liking of … Read more
Palestinian Prisoner’s Day
To give recognition to all those Palestinians in Israeli prisons, April 17th, 1974 was declared Palestinian Prisoner’s Day. The day is April 17th because the first prisoner swap was done on this day releasing Mahmoud Hijazi from an Israeli jail. Since the occupation began over 650,000 Palestinians have been in Israeli jail and is sometimes used … Read more
Syrian Emergency Law
Since this issue has been in the news a lot and I study Syrian politics in detail I figured I would put my two cents in regarding the issue of the Emergency Law in Syria. The Emergency Law of 1963 was instituted after the Neo-Baath takeover of Syria led by Jedid and Assad overthrowing the … Read more
