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| Taking on Turkey: Israel’s ‘Dangerous’ Game - By Ramzy Baroud |
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The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters on May 31, 2010, seemed in some ways like the last straw. Prior to its publication, the camel’s back had already mostly broken, and a collapse in Turkish-Israeli ties was looming.
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| For the Love of Israel: Congresswoman’s Misguided War on the UN - By Ramzy Baroud |
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From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends beyond the very interests of her own country.
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| The Future of the Libyan revolution - by Dr. Mohamed Elmasry |
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The final chapter of the life of Al Qathafi has not been written but what we know is shocking even for a dictator. He ruled his country for 42 years as a family business. He held onto power when he was losing his touch with his people.
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| Harvesting Libya's Hidden Water with Holland's Help |
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It is both scarce and precious and the whole world wants it. Libya has large supplies of it underground. But it's not what you're thinking… we are talking about water! The Netherlands shouldn't just look to the oil industry for entrepreneurial opportunities in Libya.
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| Libya’s Next Fight: Overcoming Western Designs - By Ramzy Baroud |
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At a press conference in Tripoli on August 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ago, disorganised and leaderless rebel fighters seemed to have little chance at ousting Libyan dictator Muammar Al Qathafi and his unruly sons.
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| Freed of Al Qathafi, Libyans Shouldn’t be Haunted by his Legacy |
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A new Libyan government should devise policies that benefit the Libyan people, instead of avenging Al Qathafi's legacy.
Al Qathafi no longer presents a political or even a tribal weight in the country. He’s more of a nuisance, a security challenge; a background noise that will go away sooner rather than later.
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| Israel’s ‘Nice Little War’: Gaza, Egypt in the Range of Fire - By Ramzy Baroud |
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Israeli writer Uri Avnery recently wrote an article entitled ‘How Godly Are Thy Tents?’, which began with the words, “First of all, a warning.” The reference was made to the tent cities that have sprung up across the country by middle class Israelis demanding change and reforms.
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| US-Arab Disconnect: Revolutions Restate Region’s Priorities - By Ramzy Baroud |
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As the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed to its failed policies, misconceptions and selfish interests.
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| BRITAIN BURNS (While the British government spends tens of millions of pounds per week bombing Libyan children, the British youth takes to the streets) |
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For a fire to burn, there has to be a flame and for smoke to billow into the sky high above London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol, there has to be fire - not just one, but many. While the British government spends tens of millions of pounds per week bombing Libyan children, the British youth takes to the streets. Where to draw the lines?
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| Gaza, Somalia: Humanity Lives On - By Ramzy Baroud |
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I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention from food and drink between dawn and sunset each day. For a child, there is little joy in that.
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| Competing Narratives in Syria: Between Tired Slogans and a Looming Dawn - by Ramzy Baroud |
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There is no linear narrative capable of explaining the multifarious happenings that have gripped Syrian society in recent months. On March 23, as many as 20 peaceful protesters were killed at the hands of the Syrian regime’s security forces, and many more were wounded. Since then, the violence has escalated to such a level of brutality and savagery that can only be comparable to the regime’s infamous massacres in the city of Hama in 1982.
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| Families Cry Out for Palestinian Prisoners |
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"We could enter the Guinness book of records for the longest running weekly sit- ins in the world," Nasser Farrah, from the Palestinian Prisoners' Association, jokes dryly.
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| Arab Awakening and Western Media: Time for a New Revolutionary Discourse - by Ramzy Baroud |
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When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen’s popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts evidently failed, and the revolution continued unabated.
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| Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa - by Ramzy Baroud |
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“When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless’ people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the pain of elderly Somali mother, Batula Moalim.
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| Palestinians Won’t Learn Israeli Lessons – by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours (IPS) |
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Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Palestinian schools.
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