Monthly Archives: February 2009

Yet another Arab mini-summit

As reported on Al-Manar: A mini-summit will take place soon, Saudi Ara­bia sug­gested invit­ing Egypt, Syria and Jor­dan, but other coun­tries sug­gested invit­ing Qatar also. The rea­son given to hold this Sum­mit is to dis­cuss the Pales­tin­ian issue and the new … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syrian embassy in Lebanon

In her inter­view on Syr­ian news­pa­per Al-Watan Assad’s media adviser Buthaina Shaa­ban gave hints that the Syr­ian embassy in Lebanon can stay empty with­out ambas­sador: We have 13 embassies with­out ambas­sadors. This thing depends on the sit­u­a­tion, the pos­si­bil­i­ties and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Recreating “Saddamism”

Why Maliki is mak­ing more ene­mies than friends? Jor­dan­ian writer Nahidh Hatar with his arti­cle ana­lyzes the “his­toric” rea­son behind it. The real his­tory of Sad­dam is to cre­ate alliances and then to stage a coup against his allies, this … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lahd Militia in Abu Ghraib

The name Moham­mad Al-Qaisi sounds like any Arab guy, but this guy isn’t. He the man in the famous Abu Ghraib image said today that Lahd Militia

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When parties fossilize … PUK for example

Last report says that the PUK cri­sis is solved, with medi­a­tion from Barzani for the fear of cri­sis spreads into his own KDP Party. Still it is good to fol­low the roots of the cri­sis [and the Kur­dish elec­tion on … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Crown Prince

Dying Saudi Crown Prince Sul­tan Bin Abdul Aziz con­tacted the Emir of Kuwait and he received a call from Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Mubarak to “dis­cuss” the rela­tions between the coun­tries. I bet he is com­plain­ing about the removal of his men … Con­tinue read­ing

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Mousa met Misha’al

Head of the Arab League Amr Mousa met with Hamas leader Khalid Misha’al in Dam­as­cus. With recent polit­i­cal devel­op­ments, Mousa dares to take such step.

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Nasrallah on the Israeli election

Has­san Nas­ral­lah [Ara­bic, Eng­lish]: The right-wing vic­tory in the Israeli elec­tions cor­rectly reflects its image. How­ever, his emi­nence empha­sized that there was no dif­fer­ence between Labor, Likud, and Kadima regard­ing their atti­tudes towards Pales­tini­ans and Arabs, stress­ing that all Zion­ist … Con­tinue read­ing

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Recycling the sectarian tension

In the “ The polit­i­cal process meant to start from one point to reach an open end­ing, but in the Iraqi case, it reaches the start point again. An argu­ment accepted by Aljazeera report “An argu­ment on the reviv­ing the Shi­ite … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama and the Saudi coup

Al-Quds Al-Arabi sur­prised by the sud­den Saudi – Syria improved rela­tions, But Arab Online writer Al-Rafai’a says that the “Green Light” came from Obama with his “dia­logue with Syria” pol­icy. The wind of post-9/11 in Saudi Ara­bia is blow­ing away, … Con­tinue read­ing

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