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…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict

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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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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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…

Dahoud Abu Lebdeh Palestinian, Israeli Conflict

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…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict

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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It seems that the situation between Israel and Lebanon will not stay calm as it was in the last year. After an Israeli published report about Hezbullah targets on the borders, the latter states that Israel will be targeted in several places including sensitive targets if a new war is started.

In Israel and Lebanon the media is talking about a possible confrontation between the two sides especially that officials from both sides have been talking about the importance of facing the dangers of the other side and putting an end to it. The latest war on Lebanon resulted in killing more than 1200 Lebanese Read more…

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