CNN Middle East News- Ban condemns Syrian 'brutality' in Homs, warns worse may comeThe Syrian assault on the city of Homs is "a grim harbinger of worse to come" without united pressure on the government in Damascus, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. […]
- Activist: Infants, medical staff among dead in Homs crackdownFour straight days of shelling and bombing by Syrian government forces into the besieged city of Homs have left residents cowering, afraid to escape and fearing for their lives as bodies lie in the streets, unable to be recovered. […]
- Syrian regime gets bloody nose from resistanceOne fateful consequence of President Bashar al-Assad's ferocious crackdown on Syrian protesters is the emergence of the domestic armed resistance, the Free Syrian Army. […]
- Al-Assad hangs on by ruthlessness, reformist imageWhen the Tunisian revolt erupted last year, Tunisia's president fled power in weeks. When Egyptians took to the streets, longtime leader Hosni Mubarak was swiftly ousted as well. […]
- No Libya play for the West in SyriaAmid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libya […]
- Ban condemns Syrian 'brutality' in Homs, warns worse may come
Tag Archives: september
Netanyahu refuses to freeze settlements building in the Palestinian occupied territories
Palestinian officials stated for MAAN news agency that German Counselor Angela Merkel called President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the last Quartet statement that asked both the Palestinian and Israeli sides to return to the negotiations table. The Palestinian source stated that the Palestinian president assured that he would return immediately to the negotiations with Israel once the latter completely stops the building of settlements in the Palestinian territories and agrees on the 1967 borders as a principle for any two states solution.
Palestine is resurrected and the world recognizes it
On the 23rd of September, the Palestinian people was awaken again to re-start its efforts and struggle to achieve the Palestinian national rights that are agreed on by the Palestinians. On this day, the walls of the United Nations was reminded of the Palestinian suffering that has been going on since more than sixty years. On this day the majority of the world representatives and leaders stood up with respect and support for the Palestinian desire in living in independence and freedom.
After Sixty Three Years of Occupation Israel still does not understand
After sixty-three years of occupation and conflict, Israel still does not understand what is the cost of its daily occupation of the Palestinian lands and continues to go in the wrong way to gain temporary security benefits.
The recent Palestinian efforts to bid for a Full Membership state at the United Nations resulted in a wide International diplomatic movement that most of it is in favor of supporting a Palestinian state declaration. On the other side a different kind of movement is going on; a movement that offered everything possible to prevent the Palestinian leadership from bidding for an International recognition of the Palestinians right of living in a state of their own.
J Street Opposes Palestinian U.N. Move (And Grows In Importance)
by Jeff Pozmantier on September 11, 2011
How do you become just like the Free Soil, Whig-American, Constitutional Union, Populist, Progressive, States’ Rights, Reform and Green parties? You adopt an inflexible focus on a narrow set of issues. You refuse to compromise. You accept that your narrow focus naturally allows a much larger and more broad-based party to simply absorb your issues as their own. So you remain comfortably principled, small and largely uninfluential — if you
Inability and Failure settles within the Israeli Leadership before Palestine’s bid for State
It seems that the Israeli leadership did not understand until this moment what is the reason behind the Palestinian bid for recognition of the Palestinian State in the Un.
Inability and Failure are two words that describe the situation of the rightist Israeli government these days. Prime Minister Netanyahu whose refusal to make any development in the peace process resulted in pushing the Palestinian Leadership to reconsider the whole negotiations strategy and decide to address the International community to be responsible and make an action regarding the occupation that the Palestinian is still living everyday.
The Middle East Changes and Israel’s Denial of it
Deterrence Power…a power that the Israeli leadership and army considered the main tool it can use to keep on being the strongest country in the Middle East.
Most of the Israeli army former wars were justified by claiming that unless Israel holds the strongest army and continues on achieving what it considered military victory it will never succeed in assuring the security of its people. Those who built this strategy many years ago did not consider a possible change in the regimes of the Arab world and the leadership of countries that in the past used to be allies of Israel.
Why a Palestinian State at September?
A lot of discussions are taking place these days between the Palestinians about the Palestinian state that the PLO wants to ask for at September from the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council.
Many do not understand what are the outcomes of such an International recognition of a Palestinian state while others argue about the 1967 borders that this possible recognition will take as the borders of the Palestinian state. I read a lot of what the young Palestinians have been writing and listen to many talking about their frustration.
