Middle East Post

“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”

This is what Mahatma Gandhi once said about violence. Today the spreading culture is working upon half of this statement which is to deny violence and call those who act using it terrorists. I wonder what is said about occupation, and right of liberty. Read more…

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While raising a child the father always wants him or her to become strong and capable of facing the dangers of life. If a father is raising a boy it would certainly be important that he makes his son understand that he must become a strong man that never says yes and surrender. The humankind nature includes an instinct of using anything available to make sure that it will survive. Read more…

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Yesterday a young Palestinian man who is from East Jerusalem prepared his self and his ammo, prayed his last prayers and went to the place he used to work in; a Zionist Jewish school filled with Jewish students preparing for the end of the week prayer and started shooting at them leaving eight killed, himself killed, and thirty injured.  Read more…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict attack, east, hamas, hezballah, israel, jerusalem, middle, Palestinian, post, violence, war, zayyad, ziad

“This and the hard situation in Gaza proves that there is a well planned war for the summer of this year that this time may not be controlled and could drew with it several other states.”  This was the last sentence I wrote in my last post. Actually I thought about it as a key that describes what could happen in 2008 summer in the Middle East. The recent events in Gaza and Lebanon show that a real plan was built by the Israeli leaders so they can work upon it. Read more…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict 2008, hamas, hezballah, iran, israel, khalil, nasrallah, palestine, violence, war, zayyad, ziad

The Israeli army started a new military campaign on Gaza since Wednesday and declared the end of its first part yesterday. The result was 120 Palestinian victims including 20 children that were killed. According to Israeli leaders and politicians, this attack came as a warning to Hamas in order to make it stop the Qasam simple missiles that are launched towards several Israeli cities. Read more…

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After the assassination of Emad Mughnyeh one of the most important leaders in Hezballah, the situation between Israel and Lebanon is again in danger of exploding and launching a new war between the two sides.Nasrallah said that Hezballah will reply on the assassination of Mughnyeh hardly in any place and said that the world will testify on the open war that according to him Israel started by killing Mughnyeh. Today Read more…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Iranian Issues, Israeli, Syrian Issues east, hezballah, iran, israel, khalil, lebanon, middle, post, violence, war, zayyad, ziad

Yesterday Mughnyeh the central and most important man in Hezballah the Lebanese organization was assassinated in unknown circumstances. Mughnyeh was responsible of several attacks and assassinations against American and Israeli personalities. In the beginning of his life, he used to be the personal bodyguard of Yasser Arafat in Lebanon and considered himself a member of the seventeenth military force that was led by Arafat. After that Mughnyeh joined the Hezballah forces and started Read more…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict america, assasination, cia, east, israel, lebanon, middle, mughnyeh, post, violence, zayyad, ziad

Lately almost all the Israeli media is publishing reports about the Israeli will to start a real huge military campaign and occupy Gaza again. Since the Israeli last withdrew from Gaza and the settlements around it, Israel did not occupy Gaza in a way complete way but still its military activities did continue in other ways.The real pressure that made the Israeli government think seriously Read more…

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad Palestinian, Israeli Conflict east, Eud, Gaza, israel, khalil, middle, olmert, palestine, post, Sderot, violence, zayad, ziad

Recently, the situation in the south is becoming more serious; the Israelis are bombing Gaza day and night causing damage, destruction and also civilian casualties. Olmert and Ihud Baraq declared that they will keep on striking Gaza as long as the Palestinians will keep on firing what they call Read more…

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