Middle East Post

Brazil’s president has offered his backing for Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
Speaking at a joint news conference in the capital Brasilia on Monday after holding talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his visiting Iranian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil backed Iran’s quest for “peaceful nuclear energy in full respect of international accords”.
He urged Ahmadinejad to “continue contacts with interested countries for a just and balanced solution on the nuclear issue in Iran”. 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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Recently Israeli politicians were busy preparing for the meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Doubts of possible pressure from the United States to oblige Israel to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians were felt.
However, Prime Minister Netanyahu started his International tour by visiting Jordan. According to him, the Arab world has something to share with Israel regarding the Iranian threat. Read more…

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Recently Israel has been stating that the Iranian threat must be ended and that it is impossible to live with the idea of having someone like Ahmadi Najad ready to erase Israel from the World map. Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that he will take responsibility and prevent anyone from causing the Jewish people another holocaust.
Secretary Hillary Clinton made several important statements regarding the Iranian threat and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Read more…

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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?

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A couple of days ago, a young nineteen years old Palestinian from East Jerusalem tried to hit about fifteen Israeli soldiers with his car. According to the family of the young Kasem, he was planning to get engaged to his cousin but the family refused and therefore he decided to commit suicide. The Israeli intelligence and police preferred to accuse the young man of terrorism and considered this accident a terrorist attack on innocent Israeli civilians. However the discussion about whether it was an accident of suicide committed by a normal permanent resident or a terrorism action is not important at this moment. Read more…

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Both the American and the Israeli houses are rearranging their lines in this period. The new administration that will lead the both nations will decide whether to continue on with a new chapter of Bush administration violence history, or to try to start a real change that could result in improving the American economical situation and picture around the world. Read more…

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The Iranians stated that they have sent a message to the European Union as a response to their last offer. This message didn’t include any kind of an answer about the nuclear program that Iran is working on. In a smart way the Iranians are trying to keep an opened channel with the world so they won’t lose all the diplomatic channels. World means specifically the West which is struggling with Iran and trying to offer it a good collection of privileges and rewards in order to stop their nuclear program.

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Lately the Iranians and the Americans sat to negotiate about the Iranian Nuclear project with a European participation. When the Media was reporting about this surprising event the Political observers who are studying the crisis between Iran and the United States of America were shocked and did not know what to answer since they were all closer to say that war is on the doors than to talk about any chance of peace.

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After the last Israel Lebanese deal that was made a few days ago, both sides are definitely wondering about what would be the next stage in the conflict between them.

Israel said that Hezballah would know give more time for the planning of his attack that may come as a price for the assassinating of Emad Mughnyeh which was an important Read more…

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Today the Israeli minister’s council agreed on releasing Samir Kuntar the Lebanese prisoner with another four of his companions and an unknown number of Palestinian prisoners in order to return its two Israeli kidnapped soldiers.

The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel does not expect that the two soldiers are still alive. Read more…

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The question if Iran is able to defend itself from a possible American attack or even to attack American bases in the neighboring countries of Iran could be the answer to whether the United States and Israel will take a decision of invading Iran.

In order to know if Iran has the ability we need to know what kind of invasion or attack the United States could launch on Iran. Read more…

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In his last speech in Yale University, Shaul Mofaz said that the Iranian threat is becoming more serious every day and should not be neglected. Mofaz said that it is important that all the tools should be considered and kept if they are needed to be used.

 The Israeli Minister said that the best tool that can be used now is the economical punishment or seize, but also time should be considered and the situation should not be left to become more dangerous. Read more…

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War could happen in different ways and it is not only the kind that includes attacking and sending soldiers to occupy or destroy another country. The situation now between Israel and the Iranian triangle in the Middle East is a situation of War.

It is well known that once you are not in peace with another country then you are sure in a war with it. The reason simply is that you don’t know what would be the next move that this country could take against you. Read more…

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The future always hides surprises for us especially when we are talking about politics in the Middle East. Recently Syria and Israel had a nice story going on between them that may not be as nice as it looks.

Israel as it always used to be is being smart in its way of treating things concerning the Syrian problem. The smartest State or leadership is the one that tries everything before going to war. Read more…

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