News from the Middle East: Israel, Iran, and the Palestinian territories

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

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.

Politics prevent the liberating of Prisoners

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

In the last two days a lot of discussions were held about the Israeli kidnapped soldiers and the Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners that were asked to be released by Hamas and Hezbollah in order to return the Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli government refused to release any Palestinian prisoners in the Hezbollah deal but said that it [...]

A Ceize Fire in Gaza?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Today at six am a seize fire commenced between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Actually while I was writing this I remembered that I did write the same words in the past and believed at that time that it was to be a serious seize fire that proved in the end to fail. The Israelis [...]

The Capability of Iran and the Ability to Defend and offend

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

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 [...]

Principle Paper for Peace or a Waste of Time?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In the last few days signs of disagreement and argument appeared between the two Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams although they declared the beginning of writing a principal paper about the points they agree on. Some analysts said that the reason fo such a declaration only was published for the sake of supporting Ehud Olmert [...]