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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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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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 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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So what’s the story between the Arabs and Israel? Why the Palestinians have been fighting since more than sixty years? And why do they say that the Israeli Arab conflict is the key to peace or war in the Middle East? What is this story about?

Some Israelis say that the Palestinians have enough Arab countries that they can go and live in. Other Israelis say that Jordan is the land which the Palestinians should have their state one. Others say that the Palestinians are simply terrorists and their revolution is only another terrorist action that must Read more…

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Since the 1967 war between Israel and the Arabs, East Jerusalem has been occupied. The inhabitants of the city are Palestinians who are not allowed any kind nationality and are suffering from hard conditions once talking about the community, political and economical situation. The Palestinian residents of the holy city hold Israeli permanent residency and are allowed to participate in the Palestinian presidency and parliament elections. Israel does not recognize them as Israeli citizens and give them traveling document to use instead of passports. Read more…

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While the Palestinians live the sixty-two Nakbah anniversary, the Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians in the West Bank. Palestinian teenager Aysar Al – Zaban was shot by an Israeli settler while he was tending his family’s land at Mazra’a Al Sharqia village near Ramalla. The fifteen years old boy was killed although he was not even involved in the stones throwing in the area. In Gaza, a sixty-five years old man was shot by the Israeli army who claimed that he was trying to walk towards the security siege which the Israelis have put around the Gaza strip. Read more…

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One of the subjects which are worth discussing is the Israeli settlement – made products. In the latest report which the Israeli first channel made one can  easily notice that the Israeli settlements are facing many obstacles in marketing their products to the Palestinian territories and many companies around the world.

President Mahmoud Abbas signed legislation banning the sale of Israeli settlements products in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leadership stated that this step was made to put an end to the support which the Israeli settlements are getting by the Palestinians when they Read more…

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