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16.08.2009, 09:43

Stand up and fight!

The American-led effort to bring stability to Afghanistan may take decades - that's the verdict of some of the coalition’s top military thinkers.

The Rachel Corrie aid ship enters the military port of Ashdod in southern Israel after it was intercepted by the Israeli Navy on June 5, 2010, in Ashdod, Israel 05.06.2010, 20:16 18 comments

Gaza aid ship seized, towed to Israeli port

Israel's navy has towed the humanitarian aid ship “Rachel Corrie”, sailing under an Irish flag, to the port city of Ashdod. It had earlier been boarded by Israeli troops off the blockaded coast of Gaza.

21.03.2010, 22:17 7 comments

Middle East Quartet urges talks, calls on Israel to freeze settlement activity

The Middle East Quartet mediators have called on Israel to freeze settlement activity in East Jerusalem. They have also urged the sides to return to the negotiation table.

A television grab made from the Turkish TV channel Cihan News Agency shows an Israeli commando member storming the "Mavi Marmara"  (AFP Photo / Cihan News Agency) 02.06.2010, 14:40 16 comments

“Israeli commandos had paintball guns” – Israeli Ambassador

Israeli soldiers who shot Freedom Flotilla activists did not intend to use arms, and were carrying paintball guns while boarding the ships. That is according to the Israeli Ambassador to Russia.

image by flickr user freegazaorg 29.05.2010, 17:26 10 comments

Freedom flotilla ready to break through blockade

Yesterday the Freedom Flotilla was waiting for the last group of campaigners to get onboard. A group of European parliamentarians was to set out from Cyprus to join the fleet, but Cyprus authorities would not let them.

01.09.2009, 18:59 8 comments

Lawlessness imported from America

Iraq and Afghanistan are generally painted as countries that are teeming with lawlessness, but American cases of theft, rape and murder reveal that some of the unsavory elements in the Middle East are imported.

25.05.2009, 17:59 4 comments

“Israel is isolated though its radical position”

Moscow should maintain contact with Hamas, especially now that the group has adopted a more realistic approach to the peace process in the Middle East.

28.05.2010, 15:33 7 comments

As Obama moves against homegrown terrorists, it’s time to read the fine print

The president's national security strategy focuses the big security guns on homegrown terrorism, but some observers fear the new program will ride roughshod over democratic terrain.

Beit Lahia: Morgue workers wheel the bodies of two Palestinians who were killed by Israeli fire in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on June 01, 2010. ( AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams) 27.07.2010, 09:15 3 comments

“American Radical” Norman Finkelstein: Israel losing PR campaign

US author, academic and outspoken Palestinian supporter, Norman Finkelstein accuses the US of coddling Israel and is lobbying to speak at the United Nations to promote progress for a Middle-East Peace Process.

Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan) 04.06.2009, 15:25 2 comments

“Mr Obama did a very good job in Cairo”

President Obama has really been able to disrupt the negative trend in US–Arab relations, says political analyst from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Aleksandr Pikaev.

Is US war effort in Iraq making difference?

Published: 23 August, 2009, 11:35


Iraqi women wait in line to receive the body of a relative killed the day before in a twin truck bombing in Baghdad on August 20, 2009 (AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

After two truck bombs on Wednesday killed 95 people and also injured 500 in Baghdad, it looks like the conditions in Iraq has reverted to those endured at the beginning of the war.

 
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american college kid August 23, 2009, 15:14 quote
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Wow, now the whole world can see that American citizens are uninformed.

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