Middle East Post

Issues in Iraq still continue to call for urgent attention and prove to be a deciding factor in future US-South Asia processes. Gitanjali Bakshi analyzes the upcoming Iraqi national elections in 2010 and the effect that this could have on security in Afghanistan.

IRAQ DETERMINES THE FATE OF AFGHANISTAN
By Gitanjali Bakshi

It has been suggested by many analysts that after the initial efforts in Afghanistan, put forward by Operation Enduring Freedom, US focus on the Read more…

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Recently Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu stated that Israel would accept the idea of an Israel Palestinian peace only after the latter agrees on five conditions which Netanyahu stated. The five conditions are a recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, an agreement from the Palestinians that a peace treaty declares the end of all claims against Israel, no Palestinian refugees are to be allowed to return to Israeli territory, a demilitarized Palestinian state, and an International recognition of the demilitarization. Read more…

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Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is trying to convince the world that he is doing everything he can to go forward in the peace process; his first move was made today in public in which he invited President Mahmoud Abbas to meet him anywhere to discuss the possibility of improving the situation. Read more…

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In the last week Israel was really under pressure because of the statements which were made about President Obama’s will to suggest a Peace plan in the beginning of June. This peace plan was supposed to make a notice about Jerusalem and consider East Jerusalem a capital for the future Palestinian State. Read more…

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Recently Israeli politicians were busy preparing for the meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Doubts of possible pressure from the United States to oblige Israel to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians were felt.
However, Prime Minister Netanyahu started his International tour by visiting Jordan. According to him, the Arab world has something to share with Israel regarding the Iranian threat. Read more…

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Recently Israel has been stating that the Iranian threat must be ended and that it is impossible to live with the idea of having someone like Ahmadi Najad ready to erase Israel from the World map. Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that he will take responsibility and prevent anyone from causing the Jewish people another holocaust.
Secretary Hillary Clinton made several important statements regarding the Iranian threat and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Read more…

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Democracy, Terrorism, change for the better, principles, rules of the game. These are all words which describe the main subjects which the Political world is busy with. The ways of introducing the meaning of these words differ depending on the side which is explaining them. Read more…

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Today, Salam Fayyad declared his resignation from the Palestinian Authority government which he established after Hamas took control of Gaza about two years ago. Palestinian analysts said that this step was made to encourage the talks between Fatah and Hamas to end their division. Read more…

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TITLE – How Arab initiative with the new American administration can assure success in the Middle East peace process.

The election victory in the United States by a relative outsider with a fresh approach and popular support has energized the Arab World into believing that perhaps United States policy towards this very complex and strategically important part of the world is about to undergo a transformation . Read more…

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                Hamas and Israel are supposed to start a new Cease-Fire in forty eight hours. Although the negotiations between the two sides took a lot of time through Egypt, it seems that a new Cease-Fire is about to start. Many sources said that the period of the Cease-Fire will be between one year and year and a half. Read more…

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            Recently, many efforts were made by the Arab countries in order to reach reconciliation between both Fatah and Hamas. Since the Hamas coup in Gaza, the Palestinian authority in Ramallah considers Hamas Government in Gaza illegal.  Hamas currently considers the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas illegal because according to the Palestinian premier law his presidential period ended. Read more…

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            The future of any kind of achievement in the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is not clear. Although the new American administration supports the two states solution, it seems not realistic to think of achieving it currently. Many of the American journals talked about the substantial choice which President Obama will have to choose to imply in his policy towards the Middle East. Read more…

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            In International Relations theories and glossary, one can find a term called “Soft Power”. This term means the ability of one state to affect politically another’s behavior or interests through ideological or culture means. In other words this kind of power means to achieve what is needed for the interest of one state through others policy or interests peacefully; spreading a culture or an ideology that attracts the other side to follow and join the policy of the leading state. Read more…

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Barrack Obama achieved his goal and won the presidential elections in the United States of America. The world and the American people expressed their happiness and hope of the change that Obama’s victory would bring. However some people are expecting more than what Obama could really make concerning the foreign affairs, Middle East conflict, and economical situation. Read more…

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Both the American and the Israeli houses are rearranging their lines in this period. The new administration that will lead the both nations will decide whether to continue on with a new chapter of Bush administration violence history, or to try to start a real change that could result in improving the American economical situation and picture around the world. Read more…

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