The Palestinian Military: From the Mandate to the Palestinian Authority (Middle Eastern Military Studies): Between Militias and Armies
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Hamas is negotiating with Israel. This is what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confidently said to a BBC -Arabic reporter in an exclusive interview. How...
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" In 1975, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring, “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Other organizations followed suit: The Conference of the International Women’s Year declared that international peace required the end of colonialism, occupation, apartheid and Zionism. The Organization of African Unity stated that South Africa, Rhodesia...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday, November 20, 2009 : Israel is coming under widespread international criticism for its plan to engage in a new round of illegal settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land. Israel says it will build 900 new housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority leaders began a renewed effort last week to win international support for formal Security Council...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
Haaretz reports that Fatah is preparing a third 'intifada.' But this one is meant to be different from the previous two. One of the movement's top officials interviewed by Hadith Anas said the third intifada will have a widespread popular base, adding, however, that unlike the previous popular struggle against Israel, which was sparked in September 2000, the movement will not endorse an armed
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mahmoud Abbas was interviewed in Arabic by the BBC last night, and he proved yet again that the oft-used appellation "moderate" is a misnomer. The Israeli press is reporting on some of his more outrageous statements. "Those who have to resist are the people, and there are different types of resistance, like in (West Bank villages of) Bilin and Naalin, where people are injured every day"...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berman Post report that: "A charity run by the interior minister of Hamas has offered $1.4 Million for a captured Israeli soldier. Given how much they keep talking about wanting peace, I assume that they only want to talk to the soldier and then will let him go. You know, the way they are talking to Gilad Shalit." Well that's where Israel's trading prisoners for a video of one captured soldier,...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fox News is reporting that - once again - a deal is near to release kidnapped IDF corporal Gilad Shalit. As usual, the price is 1,000 'Palestinian' terrorists, of whom 450 are bloody murderers. Fox is reporting that Israel has refused 70 names on the list and has said that it prefers seeing Shalit remaining a hostage to releasing these 70 terrorists. So Hamas, which is supposedly determined to do
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January. The Palestinian...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
You'll recall the recent Roger Cohen op-ed I deconstructed ? Here are the letters-to-the-editor:- Dimming Prospects for Mideast Peace? Published: November 19, 2009 To the Editor: “A Mideast Truce,” by Roger Cohen (column, The New York Times on the Web, Nov. 17), could leave readers with the impression that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is a supporter of peace and the Israeli...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tonight, Dr. Richard Landes spoke at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Augean Stables blog, The Second Draft blog documenting media manipulation by Palestinian Arabs and their supporters, and the driving force behind the Understanding the Goldstone Report blog. Somehow, he also manages to be a professor of history at Boston University and the author of numerous books and articles on topics...
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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