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Salah calls for ’intifada’ against Temple Mount excavation

The head of the northern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ra’ad Salah, called Friday for an "intifada" to save the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israel Radio reported. According to the radio,

Three Provocations The Method in the Madness

When A Prime Minister has just lost a war, is dogged by corruption allegations and sees his popularity ratings in free fall - what can he do? Why, he can

STRATEGY OF FEAR

The strategy of fear and its propagation is not confined on a certain type of regimes. Totalitarian regimes as well as Democracies in a state of war, or preparing for

Senior MI official: Hezbollah has more firepower than before war

Brigadier General Yossi Baidetz, head of the research division at the Military Intelligence Corps, told the Knesset on Monday that the Hezbollah militant group is replenishing rockets launched or destroyed

Looking For a Foster Father

Obviously, the Mecca accord has put an end to the nasty inter-factional war that swallowed more than 80 Palestinians and devastated one of the most local sacred values which is

Democratization of the Middle East

President George Bush’s statement of February 2003 about democratizing the Middle East in the post Saddam era found a positive resonance in the region. Democratic forces and elements like me

America’s ‘Global War On Terrorism’

One day Mulla Nasruddin went to his neighbor, known to be a mean fellow. “Sir,” he explained, “your ox has gored my cow and killed her after she refused his

Double Standard Policies

When Europe was invaded by the Nazis during WWII the nations of Europe glorified the patriotic resistance, even when this resistance was launched or led by Communist elements, as was

Our leaders have forgotten the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia

The first draft of history suggests that Britain should have stayed out of Washington’s faction-fighting over Iraq When Tony Blair is criticised over Iraq he appeals to either the past

Brothers up in arms

Relations between the government and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood took a turn for the worse in the People’s Assembly this week. Reverberations from President Hosni Mubarak’s 6 February order that