Monthly Archives: June 2010

The three factors determining the formation of the Iraqi government

there are three fac­tors that can affect the slow­down or the speed up of the for­ma­tion of the com­ing gov­ern­ment: The meet­ing between Maliki and Allawi: once again Maliki revived this tac­tic to break the “iron cur­rtain” put by his … Con­tinue read­ing

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The revolution of electricity in the southern provinces topples the Minister, eyes on Maliki, while new names of candidates emerged

First– A funny-sad Q&A ses­sion with the U.S. ambas­sador in Chatham House, which is not cov­ered by Reuters — A reporter asked Hill: How come that the U.S. after seven years of occu­pa­tion failed to repair the basic pub­lic ser­vices … Con­tinue read­ing

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Feltman’s suggestion of sharing power rejected

The absence of an offi­cial insti­tu­tion to reg­is­ter the “newly” formed Shi­ite alliance between the “State of Law” and “Iraqi National Alliance”, forced Maliki to renew his nego­ti­a­tion with the Sadrists, in an effort to counter the Supreme Council’s move­ments, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi, Maliki and the political message of the meeting

Despite the announce­ment of a merge between the “State of Law” and the Iraqi National Alliance”, the sched­uled meet­ing between Maliki, Allawi has dom­i­nated the polit­i­cal scene in Iraq. Both lead­ers have their own agen­das for this meet­ing, the dif­fer­ence … Con­tinue read­ing

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At the eve of the parliament’s first session .. The possible Iraqi scenarios

At a time when it was announced that the new Iraqi par­lia­ment to hold its first ses­sion next Mon­day, Iraqi sources pre­dicted that the U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will arrive to Bagh­dad within the next two days, to dis­cuss … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Allawi managed to split the Shiite coalition!

The short ver­sion is in the first para­graph, for more detailed ver­sion read below. Infor­ma­tion avail­able says: next week Alawi will begin his nego­ti­a­tions with the polit­i­cal coali­tions on the for­ma­tion of the next gov­ern­ment after the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the elec­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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Egypt’s media attacks Turkey’s PM Erdogan

As I said yes­ter­day, Arab rulers started to rally beside Israel attack­ing Turkey. “A strike of mas­ter”, that is the head­line on one of Egypt’s news­pa­pers (image above), describ­ing the Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Mubarak posi­tion com­pared to the Turk­ish PM Erdogan’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Reading Erdogan’s speech, Arab rulers will cooperate with Israel to take the Turkish prime minister down.

There more words hid­den behind Al-Quds Al-Arabi Op-ed, when Bari Attawan said: “Israel has no friends left, except its Arab friends.” Turk­ish Prime Min­is­ter posi­tion from Israel and Gaza, will raise an alarm by some of the dis­abled Arab rulers … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi political equation begins to take shape

Despite the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the elec­tion results by the Supreme Court, the ongo­ing debate of the three pres­i­den­tial posts (par­lia­ment, Prime Min­is­ter, pres­i­dent) con­tin­ues. For once, it has been con­firmed as almost unan­i­mously by the the three coali­tions that Tal­a­bani … Con­tinue read­ing

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Did the U.S. know in advance about the Israeli attack on Flotilla?

The good news revealed today, is that a new Gaza fleet will be on its way to break the embargo after six weeks. Turk­ish media released a doc­u­ment shows the “death-list” Israeli sol­diers car­ried with them to exe­cute cer­tain activists, with … Con­tinue read­ing

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