Middle East Post

April 2009

There is no doubt that religion and politics make for a potent mix and the recent UN resolution, condemning the ‘defamation of religion’ has created quite a stir in the international community. In the following article Gitanjali Bakshi analyzes the possible implications of this resolution and what it could mean for the on-going debate on religion and politics. Read more…

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Peace is a word created by the human beings to describe the state that they wish to live in without losing what is precious for them and to gain the opportunity of living their life without wars or tragedies. Peace could also be the creation of the magical world that they humans want but can not have no matter where they live or what they believe in. Read more…

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In the last post “The Way to Peace…or War…” I mentioned that the truth is that the people in the Middle East and specially those who live the Israeli Arabic conflict are not concerned in peace as it looks in the Media. What proves this is the way Israelis and Palestinians acted in the last few years. The Israelis elected Ariel Sharon even though they knew that the kind of peace Read more…

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An interesting subject to talk about is to discuss the relation between religion and the Arab – Israeli conflict that could become serious and even criticized by some people who prefer to relate this conflict to national reasons and not religion but isn’t religion also a part of the nationality in a or another?  Read more…

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