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 Explaining Arab anger from the BBC, 20 September 2001.The curse of the infidel by Karen Armstrong, 20 June 2002. “A century ago Muslim intellectuals admired the west. Why did we lose their goodwill?”Here we go again by Jonathan Raban, 11 December 2002. “The family dictatorships that dominate the Middle East are the legacy of fantasy borders drawn by colonial administrators. Now with the Bush administration pressing to topple Saddam, we may be about to repeat our mistakes - and do just what Bin Laden wants.”Middle East Surprises for America by John V. Whitbeck, 10 July 2003.We have a long and dishonourable tradition of smearing the dead by Robert Fisk, 23 August 2003. “Let us remember Ahmed Hanoun Hussein, Mazen Dana, Twefiq Ghazawi, Bahij Mentni, Rachel Corrie and Dr David Kelly.”The 1991 Gulf Massacre: The Historical & Strategic Context of Western Terrorism in The Gulf by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 02 October 2001. [165K]Deja Vu by Edward Miller, August 1996. “A dangerous attitude pervasive in Washington is that acting as Israel's errand boy in the Mideast carries little or no risk. Experience suggests otherwise.”It is not democracy that's on the march in the Middle East by Seumas Milne, 10 March 2005. “Managed elections are the latest device to prop up pro-western regimes.”American Tyranny in the Middle East in America: Rogue State.Imperial Perspectives (Part XV) by Jim Miles, 2006. “The Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, struggled uncomfortably out from under the rule of the Turkish Ottomans after the First World War. Part XV of Imperial Perspectives takes a broad view of Britain's imperial demise and the rise of American ‘strategic oil’.”Empire comes to Lebanon by Aijaz Ahmad, 29 July 2006.The Zarqawi Affair by B.J. Sabri, 23 September 2006.
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 War In Iraq. News from Iraq: war, politics, economy. A valuable resource for alternative news from Iraq and the Middle East. ZNet Middle East Watch.The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 140-page magazine published 10 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.The War Against Islam: a site with articles and links mostly about the Middle East, from an Islamic perspective. Parallel And Linked Genocides: Iraq And Palestine by Edward S. Herman, 20 January 2003.
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Nile Blues by Ahdaf Soueif, 06 November 2001. “Britain and the US claim the support of most Middle Eastern governments in the war against terrorism, but what do ordinary Arabs think? Do they see it as the west versus Islam? And what do they make of Tony Blair? Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif visited Cairo to find out.”A confrontation to hold off collapse and revolution by Ahdaf Soueif, 26 May 2006. “Every sector of Egyptian society is struggling with the government to stop further chaos spreading across the Arab region.”The battle for Cairo is just as vital as the one for Baghdad by Jonathan Steele, 16 June 2006. “If the US were serious about democracy in the Middle East, it would be slashing its funding for the Mubarak dictatorship.”
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The Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 by John Rose, 1986.War Crimes Caught on Tape; Still No Justice: The Massacre at Qana, 10 Years Later by Stanley Heller, 19 April 2006.It's war by any other name by Sami Moubayed, 15 July 2006. “It all started on July 12 when Israel troops were ambushed on Lebanon's side of the border with Israel. Hezbollah, which commands the Lebanese south, immediately seized on their crossing. They arrested two Israeli soldiers, killed eight Israelis and wounded over 20 in attacks inside Israeli territory.”Israelis are dying: it must be an escalation by Jonathan Cook, 17 July 2006. “The reporting we are seeing from the BBC and the other broadcasters is racist; there is no other word to describe it. The journalists' working assumption is that Israeli lives are more precious, more valuable than Lebanese lives. A few dead Israelis justify massive retaliation; many Lebanese dead barely merit a mention. The subtext seems to be that all the Lebanese, even the tiny bleeding children I see on Arab TV, are terrorists. It is just the way Arabs are.”Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know by Alexander Cockburn, 21 July 2006.Who Started It? by Sharat G. Lin, 25 July 2006. A timeline of the current crisis in the Middle East involving the Israelis, Palestinians and Lebanese.The meaning of the Second Lebanese War by Daniel X, 22 July 2006.War of Media Deception by Jonathan Cook, 03 August 2006. “Armed and uniformed soldiers can be seen all over Israel, sitting in trains, queuing in banks, waiting with civilians at bus stops. Does that mean they are 'cowardly blending' with Israel's civilian population?”Adjusting the Heroic Commando Raid Story by Roger Assaf, 04 August 2006.Self-fulfilling prophecy by Azmi Bishara, 10 August 2006. “It is symptomatic of Western racism that Israel and its sympathisers are blind to what it is ordinary Arabs find admirable in Hizbullah, writes Azmi Bishara.”Discourse of the mean spirits: False mantras, euphemisms and naked hypocrisy by Paul de Rooij, 12 August 2006.Empire comes to Lebanon by Aijaz Ahmad, 29 July 2006.Hizbollah is right to fight Zionist terror by George Galloway, 29 July 2006.For Israel's Security? by Ramzy Kysia, 28 August 2006.The price of Israel by Lamis Andoni, 31 August 2006. “Israel's war on Lebanon has exposed once and for all that its security will be bought even at the cost of war crimes and mass destruction. This immoral situation must come to an end.”How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon by Jonathan Cook, 07 September 2006.IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon by Meron Rappaport, 12 September 2006. “"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.”No Sitting Israeli President Has Ever Been Charged With A Crime by Henk Ruyssenaars, 25 January 2007. “Either we don't understand logic anymore, or the world as we knew it really has gone totally mad. International law and honesty was buried much deeper again at the conference held in Paris to 'help' Lebanon, brutally and illegally war ravaged by Israeli armed forces.”Rebuilding Resistance by Dahr Jamail, 07 May 2007. “"I never had a problem with America before, but because of their backing of Israel my life is destroyed," he told IPS. "All my kids hate America. Is this their democracy? If it is, we're better off without it."”
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Green Lights and Red Herrings by Stephen R. Shalom, 10 February 2000. “In 1982, the United States gave a green light … for a full-scale Israeli invasion of Lebanon.”Face to Face With the Victims of State-Sponsored Israeli Terror at Qana by Kate Seelye, July 1996.Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon by Anders Strindberg, 01 August 2006. “As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism. Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.” |
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King's Ransom by Seymour M. Hersh, 16 October 2001. How vulnerable are the Saudi royals? |
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The final place of refuge for Christians in the Middle East is under threat by William Dalrymple, 02 September 2006. “As Iraq and Lebanon are torn apart by sectarian mayhem and war, only Syria's religious tolerance offers refugees shelter.”
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