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- Call me old — fashioned, but I can’t help feeling that when a country’s future is being discussed those directly impacted should have a place at the table, nay at the head of the table. Instead, this ancient Arab heartland is being treated like a plaything by foreign powers.No Syrian, whether...
- If Benjamin Netanyahu imagines his new security measures will turn disaffected Palestine youth into docile sheep forever penned-in, he is mistaken. If anything, they are likely to strengthen the resolve of students to resist Israeli occupation and oppression.The younger generation has known...
- The Middle East is torn by conflicts and terrorism. Essential food aid has been summarily cut to Syrian refugees subsisting in camps on Jordan’s soil, leaving families to starve because the UN refugee agency has run out of money. If the international community, so called, isn’t willing or able to...
- Libya is embroiled in bloodshed and chaos, terrorized and plundered by Daesh and feuding armed militias. Toothless rival governments – one operating out of Tripoli dominated by the Libyan Dawn, the other out of Tobruk, supported by the forces of Gen. Khalifa Haftar – render the country virtually...
- A United National Security Council (UNSC) overhaul is long overdue. There is surely something very wrong with a system that allows any of the big five permanent members — China, Russia, France, the UK and the US — to block the will of the other 14; more often than not to serve its own interests...
- The problem with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, established in 2002 to bring war criminals to justice, is that it’s far from being international. During the 13 years since its inception, it has indicted 32 individuals who all “happen” to be African nationals. So are we to...
- Is it mere happenstance that the Obama administration is replete with Iran-Firsters, such as Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, National Security Council Director for Iran Sahar Nowrouzzadeh — and Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett?One-on-one talks with...
- Over the past year, the seemingly impossible has occurred. Firstly, the region reeled at the occupation of huge swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory by the so-called “Islamic State,” which began life as a small group of disgruntled Iraqi remnants of the Saddam era partnered with anti-government...
- ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a tough cookie. For him, making enemies is as routine as eating a sandwich. He makes no secret of the fact that his main priority in life is Israel’s security, which he’ll do just about anything to maintain. He is a believer in “might is right;” he’s...
- When an Egyptian judge pronounced former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons and his aides innocent of giving the order to kill protesters during the January 2011 revolution, the courtroom erupted with joy. The chief judge explained that there was insufficient evidence to convict, adding that the...
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