ايام معدودة باتت تفصلنا عن موعد انطلاق جولة من المفاوضات المباشرة التي من المقرر انطلاقها في الثاني من الشهر القادم في البيت الابيض برعاية الرئيس الامريكي باراك اوباما والرئيس المصري حسني مبارك مع امكانية حضور الملك عبد الله بن الحسين كرعاية عربية للمفاوضات .
لقد تم الاعلان عن انطلاق المفاوضات المباشرة بعد عدة جولات للمبعوث الامريكي لعملية السلام في الشرق الاوسط جورج ميتشل حاول من خلالها اقناع الرئيس محمود عباس بالتنازل عن الشروط المسبقة Read more…
سياسات الشرق الاوسط> Dahoud Abu LebdehcloseAuthor: Dahoud Abu LebdehName: Daoud Abu Lebdeh Email: daoud.jerusalem@gmail.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: Daoud Abu Lebdeh is a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem. He studies Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University. He writes about the Middle East and the Israeli Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.See Authors Posts (13)409 views
Al Rai Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Israel is preparing itself to attack Hezbullah targets inside Syria. According to the newspaper,
Western sources stated that Israel is increasing its army forces on its northern border with Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli air force has made several flights over Syria and Lebanon to examine Hezbullah targets to prepare to attack them. Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)521 views
يتردد مصطلح دولة المؤسسات في هذه الايام على لسان العديد من الفلسطينيين الذين يتسائلون عن معنى هذا المصطلح و ان كان يعبر عن حقيقة ما يريده الشعب الفلسطيني بعد صراع طويل مع الاحتلال من اجل نيل حرية الشعب الفلسطيني.
دولة المؤسسات هي الدولة التي يعمل من اجلها دولة رئيس الوزراء سلام فياض و التي جعل منها هدف اساسي لبرنامج عمل حكومته. السيد فياض يؤمن بأنه في العام القادم ستصبح دولة فلسطين جاهزة من خلال مؤسساتها التي يتم بنائها حاليا من اجل ان يتم الاعتراف بها من قبل العالم…اي يتوقع السيد فياض ان تحصل الدولة الفلسطينية على دعم دولي لها في حال اعلنت من طرف واحد اذا كانت جاهزة و مبنية Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)302 views
Ilan Pappe, a professor of History at the University of Exeter starts his introduction in the book by saying: “ It is first and foremost an eyewitness account of an everyman and a true humanist. He was there during the Operation “Cast Lead” and so his daily dispatches came directly from the killing fields of Gaza, and are therefore free of any media distortion or manipulation.”
Gaza Stay Human is an amazing book that introduces the twenty-two day Israeli offensive against Gaza strip in December 2008 and January 2009. Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)405 views
Watan Movement which is a student movement that was established three yeas ago at the Hebrew University and then expanded its work to other
Universities and decided to start an association that serves the Palestinian community inside the 1948 Arab cities, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza has published its second Edition of Lamasat Watan magazine. The magazine discusses different matters which are considered important for the Palestinians through poetry, political articles, interviews with Palestinian leaders and other fields. Read more…
حركة وطن الطلابية التي انشأت قبل ثلاثة اعوام في الجامعة العبرية ثم توسعت لينتشر عملها في جامعات و كليات اخرى و ايضا قررت اطلاق مؤسسة وطن لتنمية المجتمع التي تعمل من اجل خدمة المجتمع
الفلسطيني في مدن الداخل الفلسطيني و القدس و الضفة الفلسطينية و غزة قد اعلنت عن نشر عددها الثاني من مجلة لمسات وطن. تعالج مجلة لمسات وطن العديد من القضايا التي تعتبر هامة للشعب الفلسطيني من خلال تقديمها فقرات شعرية و مقالات سياسية و مقابلات مع قيادات فلسطينية من مختلف الاطر و الحركات السياسية الفلسطينية. Read more…
In the beginning of September President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Netanyahu, King Abdullah, President Mubarak and President Obama are
supposed to meet in order to declare the beginning of a new round of Direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
The negotiations are supposed to end in one year and bring a result that is supposed to give solutions for all the cases that Israel and the Palestinians do not agree on. Many analysts did not really see a good opportunity to achieve anything through these talks because of the formation of the Israeli government and Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)401 views
Many politicians find it easy to say that the Palestinian refugees case can be easily solved; compensation or a partial return to the West Bank would be
enough. Most of those politicians whether Palestinian or other did not pay a visit to one of the Palestinian refugees camps to see the real situation of these people.
The Palestinian refugees were forced to leave their homes and lands at the time the Israeli state was established in 1948 and later when Israel occupied the Read more…
Uncategorized> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)251 views
The Israeli Palestinian peace process seems to freeze again after the latest Israeli and American invitation to go to direct talks in order to achieve an
improvement. The Israelis claim that the Palestinian authority is trying to use time as a factor of pressure on Israel; soon the settlements freeze period will end and Israel will be facing another challenge in renewing the settlements freeze.
The Palestinian leadership claims that the Israeli refusal to discuss any matter in the indirect talks, the continuous process of building settlements in East Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)161 views
Instead of establishing bodies and associations that work on explaining and spreading the Palestinian case through the world and the Israeli society, many
individuals and groups from the Palestinian society choose to establish associations that work on enclosing the Palestinian people and separating it from the world by claiming that “Normalization” is something that affects the Palestinian people negatively and makes it lose its rights. Many organizations prefer to stay isolated rather than going out and facing the occupier and affecting its public opinion by showing the truth of the Israeli Palestinian conflict to the Israeli people before the rest of the world. Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)200 views
Following the recent incident on the borders between Israeli and Lebanese last week that resulted in killing three Lebanese soldiers and one Israeli officer,
the Israeli army continues to send threaten messages to the Lebanese army leadership.
The Israeli army leadership ordered its soldiers on the borders to respond fiercely to any Lebanese action that similar to the incident that took place last week. The Lebanese army shot several warning shots in the air in the last week when an Israeli army unit tried to remove a tree and make some actions on a Read more…
Iranian Issues, Israeli, Syrian Issues, Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)266 views
القدس اولى القبلتين وثالث الحرمين الشريفين ، القدس كنيسة القيامة وعاصمة شعبنا الفلسطيني الابدية هاهي القدس التي لطالما وحدت الشعب الفلسطيني باسوارها وكنائسها وازقة احياءها القديمة تئن امام المخططات الصهيونية التي حاولت ولا زالت تحاول محو تاريخ هذا الشعب المناضل وطمس هويته وتراثه من اجل تهويد القدس درة فلسطين وعاصمتهاالابدية .
ان وحدتنا اصبحت مجرد شعار نتغنى به ولا نطبقه على ارض الواقع سواء كان ذلك في وحدتنا الفكرية والسياسية وغيرها بحيث ان ماتشهده الساحة السياسية من تراجع وانقسام وتشرذم لا يمكننا ان نقول Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Dahoud Abu LebdehcloseAuthor: Dahoud Abu LebdehName: Daoud Abu Lebdeh Email: daoud.jerusalem@gmail.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: Daoud Abu Lebdeh is a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem. He studies Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University. He writes about the Middle East and the Israeli Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.See Authors Posts (13)96 views
One of the problems which the Palestinians are facing in their way to build a real Palestinian state is their lack of experience. The Palestinian state that the
Palestinians have been asking for and working to establish is supposed to be democratic, enjoy real separation between its authorities and assure right of expression and freedom for its people.
The effect of the Israeli occupation on the minds and thought of the Palestinians made them lack a kind of professionalism in their actions and policy. Self Read more…
Palestinian, Israeli Conflict> Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadcloseAuthor: Ziad Khalil Abu ZayyadName: Ziad Abu Zayyad Email: ziad@middleastpost.com Site:http://www.middleastpost.com About: A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is the President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.See Authors Posts (310)146 views
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. - John F. Kennedy -
A new national poll released Sunday indicates that eight in 10 Americans say that the economy is in poor shape, and the number that say conditions are very poor is on the upswing after steady declines through the spring. […]
U.S. companies modestly added jobs in August, easing concerns that the nation might slip back into a recession. The latest jobs report released by the Labor Department today is better than expected. Employment in the private sector rose by 67,000 payrolls, after a revised 107,000 increase in July that was more than originally estimated. The report immediatel […]
A few weeks ago, Hedgeye, the investment research firm where I'm a managing director, hosted a conference call for our subscribers that posed the question, "Should U.S. Government Debt Be Rated Junk Status?" Given that debt issued by the U.S. government continues to trade at almost all-time lows in yield, this is a contrarian call to say the l […]