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Category Archives: International Concerns
Common Cause – Real help for Iranian Democrats – By Abbas Milani
It takes one fool to drop a brick down a well, but more than ten wise men and women to extricate it. Eight years of the Bush-Cheney policy on Iran provide compelling support for this ancient Persian wisdom. What can we do to extract the brick from the well? What policies should the United States adopt toward Tehran?
A layman’s views to an Arab Initiative in light of the Massacre in Gaza
By Rashid Carim
In light of the massacre witnessed by billions of television viewers on the people of the Gaza strip it is now imperative that the Arabs as a nation looks to develop a strategy that will both secure peace and security to its people and ensure that massacre like this remains part of history and never to be repeated again.
Closing Guantánamo By David Cole
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The problem of preventive detention David Cole Updated 12/13/08
Barack Obama’s campaign promise to close Guantánamo hardly put him out on a limb. Republican Senator John McCain, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have all said that they would like to close it. The facility is now a more potent symbol of the United States worldwide than the Statue of Liberty, a daily reminder of the lawless approach the outgoing administration has taken toward the so-called “war on terror.” With broad support, Obama will likely close Guantánamo next year.
Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask? By Robert Fisk.
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised?
Israel continues war on Gaza despite the U.N Cease-Fire Call
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that the U.N decision 1860 about the situation in Gaza cannot be applied. Israeli Minister Tzipi Levni stated that Israel acts depending on its view of the situation and In the meanwhile it is not possible to stop the Israeli actions in Gaza. Hamas stated that the U.N decision does not serve the minimum that the Palestinians need to overcome what Israel is doing in Gaza. Hamas also stated that the discussions that took place about the U.N decision were not made with any of Hamas representative.
Israel ignores the International Pressure
Israel ignores the International Pressure and continues the War on Gaza. Yesterday Israel attacked a school building with missiles that resulted in killing forty Palestinian civilians. The building works under the supervision [singlepic id=32 w=300 h=100 float=right]of the United Nations that denied any existence of armed men inside it. Israel said that this attack was made because it had intelligence information about the existence of armed Palestinian men in the school.
Lessons in Leadership I
Some will consider what I will write a lesson in manipulation and a way to deceive the other. However I will write what I think is a lesson in leadership that I learned from great leaders and thinkers. I am sure that a lot of those who will read what I will write have been in a discussion or an argument and felt that they were dominated, and lost the challenge of proving who is right.
