|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Using holy sites to justify conquest and massacres is by no means an Israeli, or Jewish, invention. One of the most abominable examples is the First Crusade. Pope Urban II called upon the Christians of Europe to rise and liberate the Holy Sepulcher - the grave where, according to Christian tradition, the body of Jesus lay before his resurrection. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It! |
|
Robert Parry |
|
3/1/2010 |
|
Despite what you may have read in the New York Times and the Washington Post, the available evidence is that Ahmadinejad did win last June’s presidential election and that efforts – embraced by nearly the entire US news media – to oust him amount to yet another case of seeking the removal of a democratically chosen leader. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
War drums 2010 |
|
Sami Moubayed |
|
2/16/2010 |
|
Neither the US nor Israel can tolerate the continuation of Hezbollah in Lebanon, a powerful player independent from their control, which has effectively shattered the myth of Israeli military supremacy. The fact that the party is strongly represented in the Lebanese government and got its say on all crucial matters in Lebanese domestic affairs since 2006 only makes the reality harder to digest for the IDF. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Bible: the Goldstone Report |
|
Gilad Atzmon |
|
2/16/2010 |
|
As much as humanists are united behind the Goldstone report, our democratically elected leaders are failing to confront Israel and its lobbies. But if we want to help Israelis recover from their nationalist racist fanatical dream, we must persuade them that the Goldstone report is their new Bible. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diplomatic Illusions |
|
Rami G. Khouri |
|
2/16/2010 |
|
The Palestinians and Israelis will soon launch indirect negotiations (“proximity talks”) which mainly affirms the depressing state of play of the five primary actors in this long drama - Palestinians, Israelis, Americans, Arabs, and the UN. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yemen's Precarious Ceasefire |
|
Patrick Seale |
|
2/15/2010 |
|
Yemen desperately needs a durable settlement - and a massive injection of development funds from its rich neighbours in the Gulf |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UN-Syria Conspiracy Theory? |
|
Robert Parry |
|
2/15/2010 |
|
Much like the Bush administration’s Iraqi WMD claims, Mehlis’s Hariri case against the Syrians soon began to crumble. But the US news media, which had played the initial Mehlis accusations against Syria as front-page news, barely mentioned the shift in the UN probe. Editors relentlessly portray Muslim governments that are out of Washington’s favour as the 'bad guys'. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Stink Bomb |
|
Uri Avnery |
|
2/15/2010 |
|
Most 'correspondents for Arab affairs' are alumni of Israeli Army Intelligence, and consider themselves active members of the great propaganda enterprise against the Arabs. Many of them enjoy the generous assistance of certain institutions financed by US billionaires, whose sole function is to poison the wells of peace and understanding. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bad to Worse in Iraq |
|
Robert Dreyfuss |
|
2/9/2010 |
|
United States influence is declining, and Iran's is rising -- and controversies fuel doubts and fears for the Iraqi election on March 7. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception |
|
Tom Engelhardt |
|
2/8/2010 |
|
The CIA’s history is one of deception. There’s no reason to take anything its sources say at face value. They will report just what they think it’s in their interest to report -- and the ongoing 'success' of their drone strikes is distinctly in their interest. Like their drones, the Americans in charge of this war are desperately far from the ground, and they don’t even seem to know it. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peace-Making Requires Applying the Law |
|
Rami G. Khouri |
|
2/8/2010 |
|
We cannot escape the principle that adjudicating conflicts through the equal application of the law to both sides is the inescapable bottom line of any successful negotiation that sees both feuding parties directly involved in the process. |
|
|
|
|