WRITTEN BY Iqbal Tamimi
Since Tony Blair was appointed as the international community’s Middle East envoy, he’s done nothing solid about Israel’s breaching of Palestinians’ human rights, all he has been doing is WARNING. I remember he used to be able to do more than that, he was even credited with having started a war on [...]
Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote "coexistence" and "dialogue" between both sides of the "conflict," no doubt expecting me to give a nod of approval. However, these efforts are [...]
WRITTEN BY KOUROSH ZIABARI
Iranian experts believe that the development of political reform and the emerging wave of social awareness which is encompassing the different classes and layers of Iranian society is not a direct result of efforts made by the politicians, notes Kourosh Ziabari.
The gradual and steady evolution of reform movement in Iran does not [...]
Accusations of conspiracy to murder continue to reverberate across the Palestinian arena, threatening to break the Fatah movement in two, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank
Farouk Kaddumi's recent bombshell accusations that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his aide, former Gaza strongman Mohamed Dahlan, had connived with Israel to murder late Palestinian leader [...]
Cementing the rift via dialogue
It is becoming apparent why the Palestinian national reconciliation dialogue process has failed: blocking its success is Fatah's way of having a chance to win the January 2010 elections, writes Saleh Al-Naami
Last Saturday afternoon, while an Egyptian security delegation was busy meeting with Palestinian faction representatives in a Ramallah hotel [...]
translated from Arabic by ADIB S KAWAR
Does the idea of “Lebanon first” mean distancing from Arabism? Isn’t it for up leveling sovereignty and independence? Is it innocent from the accusation of seclusion? Isn’t it distancing itself from the Arab neighborhood to concentrate on internal matters as per the demands of the “international will” … Or it [...]
WRITTEN BY RAMZY BAROUD
As US combat troops redeployed to the outskirts of Iraqi cities on June 30, well-staged celebrations commenced. The pro-US Iraqi government declared “independence day” as police vehicles roamed the streets of war-weary Iraq in an unpersuasive show of national rejoicing. US mainstream media joined the chorus, as if commemorating the end of an [...]
Iran and the West: Hardened fronts the not unexpected result of the western “stunt”
WRITTEN BY NOTSILVIA NIGHT
A hardening of the fronts between Iran and the West, and between westernized liberals and Islamic conservatives inside Iran, is the not unexpected result of last weeks post-election confrontations. Western support and the extremely violent behavior of some armed [...]
WRITTEN BY ADIB S KAWAR
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic regime that since day one of its life had dedicated itself to confront colonialism and Zionism, and expelled the Zionist diplomatic mission to the Shah’s imperial court and handed its premises to the Palestinian Arab people, an act that international Zionism had never [...]
Neda Agha Soltani is the name of the young woman assassinated with a bullet in her heart by the Iranian government Basij Militias. No family funeral was allowed for Neda.
Her family and fiancé were interviewed and the video of her ruthless murder has not ceased circulating across the globe…
All the media outlets have been talking [...]
