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- World seeks next step on Syria as deaths mountIntense blasts that echoed through the Syrian city of Homs on Monday were just a part of the latest violence ravaging parts of the country, as world leaders sought a new strategy to end the deadly fighting. […]
- Bold, exhilarating stands for freedom inside SyriaAbu Marwan jumps into the back of the small white van. He and his friend, Abu Omar, are heading to a grass-roots demonstration in the Syrian capital to protest the government of President Bashar al-Assad. […]
- United States orders new Iran sanctionsThe United States has moved to freeze assets of Iran's government and financial institutions, saying they had engaged in "deceptive practices," President Barack Obama's administration announced Monday. […]
- Syrian rebel leadership is split
Author Archives: Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad
A Success in achieving a Prisoners Exchange: What is next?
In the last week both Israel and the Palestinian people were relieved to close the Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit file and reach an agreement that resulted in releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange to the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Egypt, which played an important role in bringing both Hamas and Israel to agree on the deal, promised that the deal would bring more results that would include the end of the siege on Gaza that lasted for more than five years. Other analysts talked about other important changes that would take
Lessons in Leadership XLVI – Poor Rich Fellow Human
Poor he is not of material but of the knowledge to find his way in the mad world that his mankind created for him. He is poor and lost in a world that he formatted with excellence and great skill. Anxiety is what leads him into the darkness that he defined it according to his dictionary as an undesired place.
Weakness is what he brings with him to this world on the day he is born. Lost he is when being a child, a revolutionary in his young age and a childish old man in his winter. Fool enough not to understand the world he created is what describes him.
Palestinian Bloggers banned from entering Tunisia to participate in so-called “The 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting”
Palestinian Bloggers applied to get a visa in order to enter Tunisia and participate in the so-called “The 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting”. The answer was refusing their applications and banning them from entering Tunisia.
Many Tunisian bloggers boycotted the Meeting that is supposed to include Bloggers from the whole Arab world.
Others tweeted and wrote about the weird incident that kept Palestinians away from a meeting that is supposed to address the Palestinian case and
Destination of the Middle East…Unknown
It is clear now that sooner or later the area will face a confrontation that is new of its kind. Today and after the arrival of the Arab spring that is bringing a change that will last for a long time and affect on many actors in the region, anything is possible.
There are four important factors that must be considered while trying to understand the next stage in the situation of the Middle East Post:
1. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2. The ongoing change in the Arab regimes.
3. The Iranian – Western confrontation.
4. The trigger that is needed to start a new kind of confrontation.
Netanyahu refuses to freeze settlements building in the Palestinian occupied territories
Palestinian officials stated for MAAN news agency that German Counselor Angela Merkel called President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the last Quartet statement that asked both the Palestinian and Israeli sides to return to the negotiations table. The Palestinian source stated that the Palestinian president assured that he would return immediately to the negotiations with Israel once the latter completely stops the building of settlements in the Palestinian territories and agrees on the 1967 borders as a principle for any two states solution.
Palestine is resurrected and the world recognizes it
On the 23rd of September, the Palestinian people was awaken again to re-start its efforts and struggle to achieve the Palestinian national rights that are agreed on by the Palestinians. On this day, the walls of the United Nations was reminded of the Palestinian suffering that has been going on since more than sixty years. On this day the majority of the world representatives and leaders stood up with respect and support for the Palestinian desire in living in independence and freedom.
After Sixty Three Years of Occupation Israel still does not understand
After sixty-three years of occupation and conflict, Israel still does not understand what is the cost of its daily occupation of the Palestinian lands and continues to go in the wrong way to gain temporary security benefits.
The recent Palestinian efforts to bid for a Full Membership state at the United Nations resulted in a wide International diplomatic movement that most of it is in favor of supporting a Palestinian state declaration. On the other side a different kind of movement is going on; a movement that offered everything possible to prevent the Palestinian leadership from bidding for an International recognition of the Palestinians right of living in a state of their own.
Next Friday…A Bid for Palestinian Full Membership State
President Mahmoud Abbas made a speech yesterday confirming that the Palestinian leadership will ask for a full membership state of Palestine next Friday at the United Nations.
The speech came to put an end for the questions and doubts whether the Palestinians will really ask for a full membership or will only ask for an upgrade of their status at the UN. Not only that a final decision was made about the kind of state that will be asked but a complete review of the last two years steps was presented.
