Obama moves swiftly on Middle East

No American president has moved so swiftly as Barack Obama to signal that the Middle East conflict is of prime importance to his White House agenda.

Deputy Head of MB Parliamentary Bloc Criticizes Governments Refusal of Recommendations of HR

He clarified that the matter is not only in the aggravation of the perpetrator of the crime of torture but to expand the scope of criminality, pointing out that he

Peace now: Settlement expansion rose by 60 percent in the last year

Regarding the settlement outposts which the Israeli government promised the high court to evacuate, the report affirms that not a single outpost was evacuated in 2008, but quite the reverse

Why Did Obama Choose Al-Arabiya for His First Major Interview?

The crowd laughs, perhaps thinking such a thing quite unlikely. One can dream! Here’s the video of Carpenter (go to 29:25). (Carpenter first made his recommendation in a POMED publication

Obama: Regime Rotation

“NATO’s top military commander is seeking an important new security role for private industry and business leaders as part of a new security strategy that will focus on the economic

On The Wrong Side

Obama was speaking as a man of the 21st century. Our leaders speak the language of the 19th century. They resemble the dinosaurs which once terrorized their neighborhood and were

Gaza Aid Appeal Video

Watch the Gaza aid appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to be broadcast by ITV, Channel 4 and Five but rejected by the BBC and Sky.

How badly did Gaza poison the well?

I would argue that the Gaza crisis did impose significant costs on the new administration, and will make its task much more difficult in the early going. Few in the

A Classical Egyptian X-File: The grand Cairo fire

Since the 27th of January 1952 up till now no one knows for sure who is behind the grand Cairo fire; it is a classical Egyptian X-File by all means.

Haneyya gov’t slams Michel’s statements against the resistance as shameless

In a statement, Taher Al-Nunu, the spokesman for the government, said that such statements are blatantly contrary to the international norms and conventions which stress and guarantee the right of