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Hypocrisy: A state for the Palestinians but not for the Kurds or Catalonia
The Kurds are a nation scattered across the Middle East while their national territory was divided up by the ruling powers of a century ago and split amongst several nations, all in a manner similar to the fate of the … Continue reading
Posted in indigenous rights, Mideast news
Tagged Catalonia, Independence, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, Kurds, Palestinian state, Peshmerga, Spain, Syria, Turkey, two-state solution
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Stupidity or malice? The US plans to return stolen Jewish artifacts to Iraq
When the news hit the headlines this week that the US plans to return Jewish artifacts to Iraq – artifacts, it should be noted, that were stolen from the Iraqi Jewish community by the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq and … Continue reading
“A hell of a pinpoint operation”
Double standards time: The Coalition forces in Iraq comprise several Western countries and Middle Eastern allies, and their aim is the defeat of ISIS (or ISIL) in Iraq and surrounding territories. On 5 September, 15 September and 3 December 2014, … Continue reading
Posted in Defence and Military, Lawfare and Delegitimization
Tagged coalition, double standards, Gaza, Hamas, human shields, IDF, Iraq, ISIS, John Kerry, media bias, Mosul, Shejaiya
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9/11 Fifteen years on
It’s hard to believe that fifteen years have already passed since that terrible day in September 2001. How much has happened in those fifteen years, both on the personal level and at the macro, national and international level. Five years … Continue reading
Posted in Mideast news, Terrorism
Tagged 9/11, Al Qaeda, civil war, Iraq, ISIS, Middle East, Obama, Syria, terrorism
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Remembering the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad in 1941
The Shoah, or the Holocaust, was such a huge crime with such incomprehensible numbers of victims, that it is impossible to ignore or forget. Indeed it has become almost fashionable for it to be commemorated all over the world, not … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Mideast news
Tagged Baghdad, Farhud, Grand Mufti, Holocaust, International Farhud Day, Iraq, Middle Eastern Jewish refugees, Nazis, pogrom, Shoah
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Obama has the lost the plot in the Middle East
Recent events in the Middle East, together with the incomprehensible decisions by President Obama and his Administration, make it apparent that the President has completely lost the plot in the Middle East. Even the Obama-admiring New York Times admits that … Continue reading
Posted in Defence and Military, Mideast news
Tagged Egypt, Gulf States, Houthis, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan River, nuclear deal, Obama, Saudi Arabia, Shiites, Sunnis, US-Israel relationship, Yemen
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