Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 20:14 pm CEST
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President Salva Kiir Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

We urge the Government of Sudan to seek a peaceful resolution to these conflicts… Continue reading

Topics: South Sudan • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 14:03 pm CEST
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President Van Rompuy Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

The legitimate aspirations of both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples for peace, safety and statehood must be fulfilled… Continue reading

Topics: Europe • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 00:04 am CEST
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PM David Cameron Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

The people of the Arab world have made their aspirations clear… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, September 23, 2011 at 19:21 pm CEST
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President Mahmoud Abbas Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

I submitted an application for the admission of Palestine on the basis of the 4 June 1967 borders, with AI-Quds AI-Sharif as its capital, as a full member of the United Nations… Continue reading

Topics: Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestinian Authority • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, September 23, 2011 at 00:09 am CEST
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President Ahmadinejad Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

If some European countries still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • United Nations 
Posted on Wed, September 21, 2011 at 22:39 pm CEST
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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

You are all aware that the blossoming of the Arab spring has faced everybody with heavy responsibilities to assume and with positions that they have to take… Continue reading

Topics: Qatar • United Nations 
Posted on Wed, September 21, 2011 at 21:57 pm CEST
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President Obama Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

There’s one issue that stands as a test for these principles and a test for American foreign policy, and that is the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians… Continue reading

Topics: U.S. Middle East Policy • United Nations • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, September 14, 2011 at 01:11 am CEST
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An Egyptian Mob Attacks Israel’s Embassy and Captures the Egyptian Revolution

How is Egypt’s revolution different from a real democratic revolution, as in Eastern Europe… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Israel 
Posted on Fri, September 9, 2011 at 01:29 am CEST
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Egyptian Dissident: Maikel Nabil Sanad

Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 25-year old pacifist currently on a hunger strike in an Egyptian prison… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Human Rights 
Posted on Sun, September 4, 2011 at 00:10 am CEST
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Turkish Regime to Israel; Obama White House to Real Middle East Moderates: Drop Dead

It seems to be a secret mainly to the White House and most of the Western mass media that Turkey is being turned into a police state… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, August 26, 2011 at 00:21 am CEST
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What’s REALLY Happening in the Middle East Today

A few hours ago I wrote that the Egyptian military government reportedly told Israel that a major Israeli offensive… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Ergenekon • Hamas • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Libya • Palestinian Terrorism • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, August 24, 2011 at 00:04 am CEST
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A Tale of Two Intellectuals: Treasuring or Despising Freedom

In a real sense, there was more intellectual freedom in the Arabic-speaking world in 1930 or 1940 then there is today… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • France • Global Islam • Islamism • Morocco • Multiculturalism • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, August 20, 2011 at 20:23 pm CEST
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Turkey and Syria: a Parting of Ways

The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party of one of its most significant foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Economy • Iran • Kurdish People • PKK • Security and Defense • Syria • Syrian Kurdistan • Turkey • Turkish Kurdistan 
Posted on Fri, August 19, 2011 at 23:57 pm CEST
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Obama Administration Calls for End to Syrian Dictatorship But Reveals Its Own Worldview

After months of rebellion in Syria and heavy repression there, the Obama Administration has finally called for the downfall of… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, August 7, 2011 at 21:08 pm CEST
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A Lebanese Town’s Dilemma Teaches about Islam, Freedom, and the Future of Europe

So consider the south Lebanese town of Hula… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Islamism • Lebanon • Norway 
Posted on Mon, August 1, 2011 at 16:24 pm CEST
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Iran: website filtering policy: Google Plus network blocked; report on plan to unblock Facebook denied

ISNA News Agency reported last month that Google Plus, Google’s recently-launched social network, has been blocked by the authorities… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran 
Posted on Sun, July 31, 2011 at 13:35 pm CEST
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Iranian top cyber police official: Facebook may be unblocked in the future

Touraj Kazemi, the head of the cyber police crime fighting division, reported this week that Facebook, a social network currently blocked… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shi'ism 
Posted on Thu, July 14, 2011 at 00:33 am CEST
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Turkey Faces Difficult Challenges in a Volatile Foreign Policy Environment

Foreign and defense policies did not figure prominently in the recent general election in Turkey… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Kurdish People • NATO • Russian Federation • Syria • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, July 12, 2011 at 00:02 am CEST
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Syrian Revolutionary Song Says It All

Wow, watch the less-than-four-minute video below and you get the flavor of the Middle East and the “Arab Spring” in every respect… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Mon, June 27, 2011 at 22:43 pm CEST
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Poisoning the Well of Animal Welfare

For the first time in Western history, the physical as well as emotional pain felt by animals became a human concern three millennia ago in the Jewish Scriptures… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Westernism • Jewish Life • Netherlands 
Posted on Sun, June 19, 2011 at 11:05 am CEST
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Syria: Dissidents Unite to Oust Assad

Twenty years ago, I was a school kid chanting with my peers, “Our leader forever, the father, Hafez Assad!” Back then, I could not have imagined… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, June 18, 2011 at 00:27 am CEST
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A Divisive Campaign in a Polarized Turkey

The June 12 general election was historic as it was the first general election in Turkey over which the shadow of the military… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, June 12, 2011 at 11:33 am CEST
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Syrian Regime Flak Calls for Mass Murder; West Does Nothing

Here is the real Middle East not the Fantasyland of the Obama Administration about President Bashar al-Asad as a reformer or… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Libya War • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, June 7, 2011 at 22:16 pm CEST
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Above the Threshold, Below the Belt: the Video Campaign Against the MHP

An internet website began broadcasting secretly-recorded videos of six members of the Turkish MHP engaging in extramarital sexual relations… Continue reading

Topics: Ergenekon • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, June 7, 2011 at 01:19 am CEST
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My Education

When I was getting a great education they made us read Shakespeare and Dickens; Wordsworth and Keats; Hemmingway and Faulkner… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Multiculturalism • Western Culture