Middle East Post

Since his first day in office and until this moment Prime Minister Benyamin  Netanyahu continues to push Israel into war. The failure and  weakness which the Israeli government is suffering from grows every day. The question is whether today’s circumstances are like the old days or will Israel find itself in war because of its government policy and get itself involved in a battle which will not be similar to its former confrontations? 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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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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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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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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Israel’s new Iran policy: Sway Obama on Tehran talks

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent

The latest International Atomic Energy Agency report was greeted with ennui by the Israeli media, deemed not especially exciting compared to the twists and turns of coalition talks or the tongue-lashing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad. Read more…

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                Following several former steps made by the new American Administration, The U.S is acting in the Middle East in a different policy trying to change the current situation. Sen. John Kerry visited Gaza, and then went to meet Syrian President Assad. The Palestinians are about to start new talks about forming a unity government and ending the division between them. Iranian-American talks are still not clear but seem to be active behind the scenes. Read more…

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TITLE – How Arab initiative with the new American administration can assure success in the Middle East peace process.

The election victory in the United States by a relative outsider with a fresh approach and popular support has energized the Arab World into believing that perhaps United States policy towards this very complex and strategically important part of the world is about to undergo a transformation . Read more…

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                Hamas and Israel are supposed to start a new Cease-Fire in forty eight hours. Although the negotiations between the two sides took a lot of time through Egypt, it seems that a new Cease-Fire is about to start. Many sources said that the period of the Cease-Fire will be between one year and year and a half. Read more…

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            Recently, many efforts were made by the Arab countries in order to reach reconciliation between both Fatah and Hamas. Since the Hamas coup in Gaza, the Palestinian authority in Ramallah considers Hamas Government in Gaza illegal.  Hamas currently considers the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas illegal because according to the Palestinian premier law his presidential period ended. 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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