Middle East Post

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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One of the most important problems, which came as a phenomenon side by side with the process of building the Palestinian state is corruption. Corruption started to exist not only in financial matters but it also took place in the soul of the national and volunteer action which are supposed to be the basics of the process of building a state and getting freedom.

The Palestinian national movements failed in facing the new stage, which they went through after Oslo accords and the last Parliamentary elections. The Read more…

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The Betsalel Academy has celebrated graduating its students for the year 2010 last week. The ceremony included a show of the artistic and fashion works that the students made. An interesting phenonmenon that I saw in the ceremony was the Palestinian Arabs success and creativity in making fashion and artistic works that represented their history and feelings.

An Arab Student Nada Nafar made a seam garment that looked different and interesting. Once Nada was asked about her project she replied by saying: The cloth embraces the Human body, the house embraces the Human and the space embraces the house, the human, the culture and the identity. Read more…

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Many Western countries tried to play a mediator role between the Israelis and the Palestinians in order to reach a peace agreement that would put an end to the long conflict. Most of these mediators tried to search for tools that would bring both sides close to each other and reach an understanding regarding the matters that stayed until today as an obstacle in the way to achieve peace. Read more…

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Taking responsibility no matter what happens is one of the attributes of a leader. Responsibility is related to the decisions we make in our life. Our decisions bring us the result of what we do and then we either declare our responsibility of the consequences of our actions results or we simply try to escape from it.

Taking responsibility affects on us and those who are around us especially when we are leading others and trying to bring them together or develop the thoughts they have about life or the field that we are leading in. In order to succeed in leading we must make sure to make those who believe in us feel Read more…

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