In the coming weeks, PTT readers will see some new features to the site which will make it more interesting, more enjoyable and more useful.
The first change you can already see if you scroll down to the lower portion of the centre column. It is a new feature section called Arabian Coffee House. It will collect [...]
Walking down Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Buenos Aires the other day, I came across a succession of posters advertising “la penetración iraní en América latina” and featuring Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clasping hands. When I then came across the Iranian embassy and a monument in a park labeled “Plaza Irán,” as well, I became [...]
STATEMENT OF THE FRENTE POLISARIO
BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE 24
New York, 16 June 2009
Mr Chairman,
Western Sahara remains under the illegal occupation of Morocco. The efforts employed so far by the United Nations with a view to finalising the decolonisation of the Territory have not been successful due to Morocco’s current rejection of the right [...]
Hagada Hasmalit, 17 June 2009
Translated from Hebrew by George Malent
Netanyahu’s speech [of 14 June 2009] was perceived in Israel and the world as a reply to Obama’s speech in Cairo, and as such it has provoked a great deal of interest.
The content of the speech itself was fairly typical of those given by previous prime [...]
Israel in May of 2009.
Just over a week ago, I visited Israel and Palestine. I was a part of a delegation of authors consisting of representatives from different continents. We were supposed to participate in a Palestinian literary conference. The inauguration was supposed to take place at the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem. Just as [...]
A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East.
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for [...]
There is no doubt that Benyamin Netanyahu’s odious screed at Bar Ilan University Sunday night was a slap in the face to all those who gave the so-called “peace process” between the Palestinian people and Israel the benefit of the doubt.
First, it was a brazenly direct affront to President Obama who thought rather naively that nice words about [...]
Eight days after Barack Obama delivered his much-touted speech in Cairo, Iranians are going to the polls to vote for their own president. Although reelection for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seemed to be guaranteed just a few weeks ago, there now appears to be growing potential for an upset victory by challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi, who [...]
It is hard to treat with indifference President Obama's speech in Cairo on 4 June, 2009.The speech itself seemed to represent an ostensible departure from the virulent anti-Islam rhetoric which very much characterized the general discourse of the former Bush administration.
Needless to say, the calumnies and canards concocted by Bush against the world's 1.5 billion Muslims; [...]
"How to be less restrained than before: the challenge facing the IDF in upcoming assaults on Lebanon. (Photo by Amelia Opalinska.)"
WRITTEN BY Belén Fernández
A recent article in the online edition of the Jerusalem Post states that “Israel is becoming increasingly anxious about the fate of UNIFIL if Hizbullah increases its power in upcoming parliamentary elections [...]
