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After a three-month medical hiatus the ailing king of Saudi Arabia returned to his throne and announced a $36billion economic package meant to placate Saudi reformers and the general public grown restless with corruption and unemployment, and inspired..
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Many Americans think that their country is indebted to Middle Eastern oil. The term “foreign oil” conjures up Arab sheikhs. And nefarious ones at that....
made popular Jan 4 2011
The Mideast: what can one say? The region has yet to normalize normality. Relations between states is often adversarial and seen through the prism of zero-sum. Nations...
made popular Dec 8 2010
The United States think it can win Arabs hearts and minds simply by managing a crude and vulgar propaganda channel - al-hurra - all the while dropping bombs and...
made popular Dec 8 2010
The “peace process” in the Middle East lurches along from crisis to crisis. Since President Obama took office, George Mitchell has served as his special envoy to...
made popular Nov 12 2010
In an article about the upcoming non-election election in Jordan, The Economist opines that “JORDAN seems to be the Canada of the Middle East.” Well, yes,...
made popular Nov 10 2010
This headline should not surprise anyone. It is well-known that corrupt Gulf monarchs fear an Iranian nuke, because they’re illegitimate regimes who preside over...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering imposing its own peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians....
made popular Apr 8 2010
It has taken President Obama just 10 months to achieve something each of his immediate predecessors delivered in their final year in office: failure in the Middle East...
made popular Jan 2 2010
I don’t agree with Ron Paul on a lot of issues, but one of them I do agree with him with is our military presence in the Middle East being one of the causes of...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Four and a half years ago, Vladimir V. Putin came up with an idea to help re-establish Russia as an important player in the Middle East: The country would sponsor a...
made popular Dec 30 2009
The Smiling Tyrant.
Nothing better (perhaps) illustrates the American hypocrisy in ostensibly championing human rights and democracy in the Arab world than the jovial...
made popular Oct 13 2009
Israel’s defense minister said in remarks published Thursday that the Middle East is too unruly for a region-wide nuclear arms ban, arguing that the Muslim world...
made popular Sep 17 2009
A new thorough survey conducted by Lebanese firm Ad-Duwaliyyah li-l-Ma`lumat found that despite their own sectarian feuds and divisions, Lebanese do share common views...
made popular Sep 1 2009
WITH elections in Lebanon and Iran occurring in the same week, it’s inevitable that they are viewed as twin tests of efforts to spread democracy to the Muslim world....
made popular Jun 12 2009
Today is the last day for President Bush administration. For the Middle East, it is the end of a very important and productive era, but controversial as well, and it is...
made popular Jan 20 2009
The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Israel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its foundation. Ehud Olmert marks the Remembrance Day by stating that ‘It is peace, not war, that we aspire to and...
made popular May 8 2008
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories on March 19-21 to discuss holding a Mideast meeting in Moscow, a...
made popular Mar 13 2008
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Why did Israel attack Gaza with such brutality? Did Israeli officials think, even for a fleeting moment, that their army’s attacks could halt, as opposed to...
made popular Mar 13 2008
Israel pulled its ground troops out of northern Gaza today after an offensive against Palestinian rocket salvos that has left more than 100 people dead.
But despite...
made popular Mar 4 2008
It has become widely perceived phenomenon that George Bush doesn’t like growth in Middle East to make US currency strongest in the world. After Iraq, Iran is said to...
made popular Jan 24 2008
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Monday that Israel may have to take military action to prevent its arch foe Iran from acquiring an atomic...
made popular Jan 22 2008
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Palestinian boys walk past Israel’s separation barrier, near a construction site in the Aida refugee camp near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, May 4, 2009. Palestinians in this refugee camp want to receive Pope Benedict XVI in what they say is...
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