Middle East Post

Al Rai Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Israel is preparing itself to attack Hezbullah targets inside Syria. According to the newspaper, Western sources stated that Israel is increasing its army forces on its northern border with Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli air force has made several flights over Syria and Lebanon to examine Hezbullah targets to prepare to attack them. Read more…

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In the beginning of September President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Netanyahu, King Abdullah, President Mubarak and President Obama are supposed to meet in order to declare the beginning of a new round of Direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

The negotiations are supposed to end in one year and bring a result that is supposed to give solutions for all the cases that Israel and the Palestinians do not agree on. Many analysts did not really see a good opportunity to achieve anything through these talks because of the formation of the Israeli government and Read more…

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Many politicians find it easy to say that the Palestinian refugees case can be easily solved; compensation or a partial return to the West Bank would be enough. Most of those politicians whether Palestinian or other did not pay a visit to one of the Palestinian refugees camps to see the real situation of these people.

The Palestinian refugees were forced to leave their homes and lands at the time the Israeli state was established in 1948 and later when Israel occupied the Read more…

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The Israeli Palestinian peace process seems to freeze again after the latest Israeli and American invitation to go to direct talks in order to achieve an improvement. The Israelis claim that the Palestinian authority is trying to use time as a factor of pressure on Israel; soon the settlements freeze period will end and Israel will be facing another challenge in renewing the settlements freeze.

The Palestinian leadership claims that the Israeli refusal to discuss any matter in the indirect talks, the continuous process of building settlements in East Read more…

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Instead of establishing bodies and associations that work on explaining and spreading the Palestinian case through the world and the Israeli society, many individuals and groups from the Palestinian society choose to establish associations that work on enclosing the Palestinian people and separating it from the world by claiming that “Normalization” is something that affects the Palestinian people negatively and makes it lose its rights. Many organizations prefer to stay isolated rather than going out and facing the occupier and affecting its public opinion by showing the truth of the Israeli Palestinian conflict to the Israeli people before the rest of the world. Read more…

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Following the recent incident on the borders between Israeli and Lebanese last week that resulted in killing three Lebanese soldiers and one Israeli officer, the Israeli army continues to send threaten messages to the Lebanese army leadership.

The Israeli army leadership ordered its soldiers on the borders to respond fiercely to any Lebanese action that similar to the incident that took place last week. The Lebanese army shot several warning shots in the air in the last week when an Israeli army unit tried to remove a tree and make some actions on a Read more…

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Many Western countries tried to play a mediator role between the Israelis and the Palestinians in order to reach a peace agreement that would put an end to the long conflict. Most of these mediators tried to search for tools that would bring both sides close to each other and reach an understanding regarding the matters that stayed until today as an obstacle in the way to achieve peace. Read more…

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It seems that the situation between Israel and Lebanon will not stay calm as it was in the last year. After an Israeli published report about Hezbullah targets on the borders, the latter states that Israel will be targeted in several places including sensitive targets if a new war is started.

In Israel and Lebanon the media is talking about a possible confrontation between the two sides especially that officials from both sides have been talking about the importance of facing the dangers of the other side and putting an end to it. The latest war on Lebanon resulted in killing more than 1200 Lebanese Read more…

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It seems that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu thought very well of what kind of statements he should make while visiting the United States. While the Israeli army is marketing a new file that includes several Hezbullah targets on the borders, the Israeli Politicians are trying to fix Israel’s picture around the world. Ben Eliezer’s call for a real Israeli action to stop the damage that is happening to Israel’s reputation because of its ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people was answered by a new Israeli smart plan that would take the Palestinians into another round of fake negotiations. Read more…

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President Obama is supposed to meet Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu today at the White House to discuss the Israeli Palestinian talks and the importance of starting direct negotiations between the two sides.

Another Political development which the Israeli and Palestinian sides witnessed was a surprising meeting which took place between Prime Minister Fayyad and Minister Ehud Olmert at Western Jerusalem yesterday to discuss the Palestinian demands regarding the siege on Gaza, checkpoints in the West Bank Read more…

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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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After three years of blockade on more than one million and seven hundred Palestinians who live in the Gaza strip, Israel is considering an easement on the entrance to the strip but refuses to end the blockade. The Israeli decision to consider an easement on the entrances to Gaza was made after the worldwide criticism that was made about the Israeli policy regarding the Gaza strip and the late freedom flotilla incident that Israel killed in it nine peace activists while preventing it from reaching Gaza. Read more…

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While Israel continues to mind any serious negotiations with the Palestinians about the final and important issues, the Palestinian leadership made a visit to the White House and considered it a successful one. The Israelis are still suffering from the results of their use of violence while dealing with the Freedom Flotilla and an Iranian ship is on its way to support Gaza.

Although the Palestinian team considered its visit to the White House a successful one, there are no signs that anything has been achieved. After complaining about the Israeli attitude in the negotiations and the situation in Gaza, President Obama only made a statement that the siege on Gaza must be reexamined Read more…

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