With the Arab Initiative on the table for Israel – acceptance by the region if the Jewish state accepts a two-state solution, a highly unlikely proposition considering its obsession with expansionism – the recent war against Gaza has shown once again the impotence of the Arab world: There is more solidarity with the people of…
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Taking a failed state even further
A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Using the Palestinians
Azadeh Moaveni, Washington Post, Janaury 25: During a recent trip to Tehran, I noticed that the Benetton shop in my old neighborhood of Darrous was closed, its windows papered over. In the past, fundamentalists offended by the shop’s immodest displays had decried its immorality and spread rumors of “Zionist ownership.” This time, however, they set…
Extremism rises from the ashes
Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, January 19: …The 22-day war has changed the parameters in the region: it has produced an unparalleled, overt challenge to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the formal structures of Arab political power. The Doha informal meeting of heads of state on Friday gave legitimacy to the Palestinian resistance movements, called for…
A positive beginning, but…
The Muslim world takes a step in the right direction towards Palestine: The worst condition in… the Gaza Strip amidst the ongoing… ceasefire… declared by Israel after the issuance of the UN resolution,… has prompted Indonesia to initiate… a fund raising activity ”˜donation’… for Palestine. The House of Representatives(DPR)… along with its Iranian and Syrian…
The secret hand enters once again
What is the power of the Zionist lobby in Australia? Are there limits to free speech over Israel/Palestine? If stereotyping Jews is anti-Semitism (and it certainly can be), what about doing the same to the Muslim community?
How to cause violence and knowing it
The London Review of Books publishes a collection of contributors to analyse the crisis in Gaza. Alastair Crooke, co-founder of Conflicts Forum, argues that the rise of Islamic militancy is worsening thanks to Western barbarity: At one level Gaza will be seen as a repeat of Algeria. At another, it will speak to wider struggles…
Islam is here to stay
Israel attacks Gaza in an attempt to crush Hamas. Alas, its popularity in the Arab world has soared and political Islam rises in strength:
Let the man be heard!
Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, is soon to head to the Middle East “to interview ordinary citizens about life in the crosshairs of jihad“. Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin writes that the American liberal media elite loath an average, non-Ivy League man daring to explain the truth about the Middle East. Sure thing. Joe has…