The situation of the Arab youth in most of the Arab countries is in a bad shape. The obstacles which the youth
are facing in their way to build the future are more than what they can confront. The continuous competition between the Arab governments and the oppositions results in putting boundaries for the interests and activities of the new generations. The governments decide what is allowed and what is forbidden. Read more…
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In the last twenty four hours Israel and Syria were sending messages to each other explaining what kind of war they are expecting and which
reactions would happen before, through, and after a possible war between the two states.
The incident started with a statement which Ehud Barack made about the possibility of going to war with Syria if the last does not sign a peace agreement with Israel. Read more…
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Issues in Iraq still continue to call for urgent attention and prove to be a deciding factor in future US-South Asia processes. Gitanjali Bakshi
analyzes the upcoming Iraqi national elections in 2010 and the effect that this could have on security in Afghanistan.
IRAQ DETERMINES THE FATE OF AFGHANISTAN
By Gitanjali Bakshi
It has been suggested by many analysts that after the initial efforts in Afghanistan, put forward by Operation Enduring Freedom, US focus on the Read more…
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Recently, the American plan for peace in the Middle East was discovered. The media talks about a ten points plan which assures a Palestinian state in the summer of 2011.
The plan was not approved by the White House and is supposed to be declared in the end of the current month.
However, if the plan is similar to what was discovered until today then it will face huge difficulties and a wide Arab refusal of accepting it as a final solution for a conflict which lasted for sixty years. The plan does not give any Palestinian authority over East Jerusalem and prefers to suggest that Israel is to keep its control of some of the neighbors while Arabs which are in other words Jordanians are to control other areas in the holy city. Read more…
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Recently, the Israeli government sent several threats to the Lebanon by threatening to react against any attack launched by Hezbollah by
targeting Lebanon itself. The Israeli government stated that If Hezbollah attacks any Israeli in any place Israel will be ready to attack its targets on the Lebanese soil. Read more…
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Recently the Israeli abuse in Jerusalem against the Palestinians is becoming harsher. Since Oslo’s agreement the Israeli leadership decided to do everything possible to make any kind of compromise regarding Jerusalem impossible.
The plan is to try to change Jerusalem into a complete Jewish city that holds no other religious or cultural sign even though it used to be in it since hundreds of years. Although Israel knows that any attempt to make a change in the old city and specifically in the Aqsa mosque would be like playing with fire because of its holiness and importance in the Islamic circles, it keeps on. Read more…
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Recently Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu stated that Israel would accept the idea of an Israel Palestinian peace only after the latter agrees on five conditions which Netanyahu stated. The five conditions are a recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, an agreement from the Palestinians that a peace treaty declares the end of all claims against Israel, no Palestinian refugees are to be allowed to return to Israeli territory, a demilitarized Palestinian state, and an International recognition of the demilitarization. Read more…
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Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is trying to convince the world that he is doing everything he can to go forward in the peace process; his first move was made today in public in which he invited President Mahmoud Abbas to meet him anywhere to discuss the possibility of improving the situation. Read more…
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On last Wednesday, Congressman Robert Wexler, who is a supporter of Israel and a close political ally of President Obama, stated that he believes that Israel will say yes to settlement freeze. According to Wexler Israel will lose nothing by such a step which is needed to figure out whether the Arab countries are ready to start normalization with Israel. Read more…
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Since its establishment, the Israeli state depended on its security forces and intelligence agencies to assure its security. Today Israel believes that the reason which stands behind weakening the Palestinian attacks is the effort which the security and army forces did.
Israel started building its intelligence and security forces before the declaration of its establishment. Read more…
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Many people wonder why the Arabs and the Israelis did not reach an agreement to end the historical and complicated conflict between them. Although many negotiations were held both sides did not find out any solution which would satisfy the needs of both sides. It seems that the negotiating leaders preferred not to take responsibility of the result of any kind of compromises made by them
The Arab Israeli conflict is complicated because it is a conflict of land, religion, and existence. Read more…
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A couple of days ago, an international conference named the Middle East Simulation started in Konstanz to discuss the Middle East conflict and the possibility of making the Arab Peace Initiative a solution which can be accepted by both the Arabs and Israel.
In this conference forty students from around the world gathered to try to simulate the role of more than eleven countries who Read more…
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Recently the United States of America showed a brave and new change in its policy towards the Muslim world and the Israeli Arab conflict. This change was noticed in America’s view of the importance of finding a solution for the Israeli Arab conflict.
The change started to appear since President Obama’s entrance to the White House. Read more…
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In the last week Israel was really under pressure because of the statements which were made about President Obama’s will to suggest a Peace plan in the beginning of June. This peace plan was supposed to make a notice about Jerusalem and consider East Jerusalem a capital for the future Palestinian State. Read more…
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In his first day in office, Lieberman, who is the new foreign affairs Israeli minister, stated that those who want peace must prepare for war. Lieberman statement was considered an extreme step which should not be made on the first day and by a foreign affairs minister. Read more…
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