Progressives with Knowledge – Rabbi Michael Lerner and Uri Avnery – look at...
From: Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun - miriam@tikkun.org Tikkun Editor’s note: Uri Avnery, veteran Israeli peace activist and chair of Gush Shalom, combines personal recollections with political...
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Algerian Former Foreign Minister and UN Elder, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi gets Syria...
ON BRAHIMI – the secret weapon of the UN – see please in German: www.taz.de/!99902/ =========== UN Observers Leave Syria As Mandate Expires By Conal Urquhart, Guardian UK 18 August 2012 Departure of...
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Uri Avnery November 17, 2012 Another Superfluous War HOW DID it start? Stupid question. Conflagrations along the Gaza Strip don’t start. They are just a continuous chain of events, each claimed to be a...
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Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein for Jordan? Backed by Western Oriented...
HRH Prince Hamzah of Jordan – Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan (born 29 March 1980) is the son of the late King Hussein of Jordan from his American-born fourth wife, Queen Noor al-Hussein. He was...
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When there was hope that the Arab world gets its Spring after autoritarian...
A Faceless Teenage Refugee Who Helped Ignite Syria’s War. Bryan Denton for The New York Times A boy now living in Jordan, who was part of a group whose arrest and torture helped start Syria’s...
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The Jordanian Ambassador to the UN, H.R.H Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein,...
CGA – CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013, 6:30 – 7:45 PM New York University Downtown – Woolworth Building, Room 430 15 Barclay Street (bet. Broadway and Church Street) New York,...
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Ecology as backdrop to history? When we talk about ROOTS it is about TREES...
ISRAEL TRAVELS – By AVIVA AND SHMUEL BAR-AM February 23, 2013 Israeli history: it’s all about roots The oldest of our ancient trees have lived through wars, religious upheavals, conquests and defeats;...
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Swampland – that is what Time Magazine just called the Holy Land – this when...
A 1759 map entitled The Holy Land, or Land of Israel, showing not only the Ancient Kingdoms of Judah and Israel in which the 12 Tribes have been distinguished, but also their placement in different...
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An ongoing review of President Obama’s Comet swiping the Middle East and what...
With Obama as Broker, Israelis and Turkey End Dispute By JODI RUDOREN and MARK LANDLER – for The New York Times of March 23, 2013. Israel’s apology for errors in a 2010 raid on a ship bound for Gaza...
View ArticleSumming Up – The implementation of The Israel-Turkey Reconciliation Agreement...
To the Europe and Eurasia and the Near East lists of the US Department of State - following the President’s trip to the Middle East: Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC March...
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Arabs keep surprising us. Now it seems there is an intent in picking a fight...
Agreement for the export of Iraqi oil through Jordan within days He and Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee yesterday that the next few days will witness the signing of the Jordanian-Iraqi...
View ArticleIn full vision – Turkey, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkish North Cyprus, The US,...
Had Turkey made its internal peace wilth their Kurds, and moved on to incorporate the Iraqi Kurds, then the Syrian Kurds, then the Iranian Kurds – that would have been a National policy of a...
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Can American Noble Energy, and Israel’s new gas industry, cement an Israeli –...
Tamar Gas Field Operator Looking to Build Pipeline from Israel to Turkey April 12, 2013 Author: Zach Pontz An aerial view of the Israeli gas rig Tamar. Photo: Albatross Aerial photography/Nobel...
View ArticleIsrael Hayom wrote about a Qatari prince to visit Israeli Jerusalem and sign...
digital-edition.israelhayom.co.il… We found this information on-line 0n page 3 – left lower corner – of the Hebrew edition of the Right-Wing Israel Hayom newspaper. We got directed to it by the...
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Oil Shales, Shale Gas, Shale Fuel for thermal plants – so many ways that...
April 15-21, 2013, I participated on a trip to Baltic Sea States of the KPV (Komunal Politische Vereignigung) of the Politische Akademie of the Austrian Peoples Party (OEVP). Above took us to Estonia...
View ArticleAl Monitor gives us the main News from the Near East: To solve Syria – Iran,...
Iran, Israel Need to Talk About Syria Meir Javedanfar for Al-Monitor Kuwaiti Opposition Leader ‘Not Asking to Overthrow Regime’ Jamie Etheridge for Al-Monitor Kurdish Group Gaining Autonomy in...
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The Alenby Bridge was renamed King Hussein Bridge and the logic of a Jordan...
The Return of the Jordan Option For Palestine. Vehicles drive toward the Allenby Bridge Crossing July 9, 2009. The Israeli-controlled terminal leading to the Allenby Bridge across the Jordan River is...
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Water Problems Given as Added Reason For The War In Syria. Will Egypt Be...
A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next. Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza...
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The Kurds stuck with the PKK have difficulty obtaining a Middle East Nation’s...
This website argued for years that Turkey could have enhanced its world position by allowing enough slack to its own Kurds establishing itself as a bi-National State – Turkish-Kurdish and absorb the...
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Israel beat the drought with infrastructure and technologies.
The desalination revolution How Israel beat the drought This country was on the brink of water catastrophe, reduced to running relentless ad campaigns urging Israelis to conserve water even as it...
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