Middle East Post

لم تمضي فترة طويلة على اعلان جهاز الشاباك الاسرائيلي عن اعتقال نشطاء فلسطينيين داخل اسرائيل وذلك على خلفية الاشتباه فيهما بالتجسس لصالح احزاب وتنظيمات خارجية بالرغم من عدم اثبات صحة

الاتهامات ، فها هو اليوم يعلن عن اعتقال سبعة من فلسطينيي الداخل بتهمة التجند لصالح القاعدة والقيام بعدة عمليات اهمها قتل سائق اسرائيلي وعمليات اخرى داخل اسرائيل .

المعتلقين السبعة هم من فلسطينيي الداخل وهم من سكان الناصرة وتتراوح اعمارهم بين ١٩ -٢٦ حيث اعتقلت اسرائيل ثلاثة من المشتبهين قبل مدة قصيرة وبعدها تمت اعتقال بقية الخلية ونسبت اليهم تهم عديدة منها التعامل والاتصال بشكل مباشر مع تنظيم القاعدة بقيادة اسامة بن لادن Read more…

Dahoud Abu Lebdeh International Concerns

It seems that the current tension is not enough between Israel and Lebanon. Lately the Israeli official Landau threatened Lebanon for its latest claims about natural and gas resources that exist in the Lebanese sea and Israel continues to use. Alhariri responded by saying that Israel has nothing else to do except for threatening Lebanon because of the former fear of the stability that Lebanon enjoys today.

Hezbullah is demanding for an immediate action that is needed to make Israel understand that Lebanon is ready to face any kind of threats. Although the Read more…

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We would like to invite you to take a look at “Safe Passage”, the largest and most comprehensive new media project about human rights in Israel, allows the user to experience interactively the restrictions on movement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and understand the grave consequences resulting from the separation of Gaza and the West Bank for people living in the two areas. “Safe Passage” makes innovative use of animation, Flash documents, video and a blog, and comprises a political and legal archive, including dozens of official documents that shed light on the military legislation and legal rulings since the 1990s, when Israel began imposing increasing restrictions on movement between the areas. Read more…

Webmaster International Concerns, Strategic Foresight Group

While looking at the current situation of the Palestinian people, one can easily see that there is a lack of leadership that is needed to continue the way to freedom and independence. The reasons may vary between the difficulty in changing the liberation movements into political parties and the failure of the programs which Fatah and Hamas suggested in order to get an independent Palestinian state.

I am not interested in discussing the negotiations program or even the armed resistance choice since the current situation proves whether any of them Read more…

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More than 16 people were killed and dozens were injured when Israeli troops attack the aid carrying ships from sea and air while on their way to break the blockage on Gaza. The flotilla have hundreds of supporters and unarmed civilians who decided to join get on the ships and go to Gaza to try to break the siege which turned the life of the Palestinians there to become one of the worst in the world.

The Israeli army and Interior Minister decided to storm the flotilla and prevent it from moving forward towards Gaza. The result was killing more than 16 Read more…

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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…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad International Concerns, Palestinian, Israeli Conflict

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…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad International Concerns, Palestinian, Israeli Conflict

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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