8.22.10 – Pierre Hassner on the conflicting passions of the capitalist and insurgent in the Middle East. Being neither an Arab nor a specialist on the Middle East, I can offer only a few hesitant and provisional suggestions on the topic of the geopolitics of passions in the Middle East.
8.21.10 – UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Israel informed the United Nations Friday that it reserves the right to use force to stop a new aid flotilla from reaching the blockaded Gaza Strip.
8.20.10 – The judge has sent letters to several hospitals seeking their advice on whether it is medically possible to render the attacker’s spinal cord non-functional . A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment.
8.20.10 – The rise of irrational hate in US will inevitably lead to violence, MJ Rosenberg says.
8.18.10 – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has added his voice to those condemning the Taliban-orchestrated execution by stoning of a young couple charged with adultery. The stonings in the northeastern province of Kunduz on August 15 are considered the first such executions ordered by the Taliban since their overthrow from power nine years ago.
8.18.10 -The country's foreign ministry workers have cut off funding for the spy agency.
8.17.10 – Capt. Barak Raz of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit responds to the disgraceful behavior of the former IDF soldier who uploaded shameful pictures to her Facebook profile.
8.12.10 – TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state television broadcast a purported confession by a woman who had faced death by stoning for adultery, a case that has drawn U.S. concern, an offer of asylum from Brazil and international protests.
8.11.10 – JEDDAH: The general manager of a leading religious channel has claimed that women scholars are unwilling to appear on television.
8.10.10 – Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary they currently receive from the government, two key US-backed militia leaders have told the Guardian.
8.10.10 – Too bad muslims had killed the Christian missionaries considering they need assistance now! The little the people of Nowshera used to have has been washed away in the floods. Hungry and thirsty, the survivors of the Pakistan floods wait in sodden tents for aid to get through, struggling to come to terms with the events of recent days.
8.10.10 – TEL AVIV – Will the Justice Department prosecute associates of President Obama who are organizing flotillas and marches in support of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip? Group seeks to break blockade that keeps Hamas from re-arming
8.9.10 – In June 2010, the UN Security Council (UNSC), including China and Russia, agreed to implement its toughest sanctions (Resolution 1929) against Iran. The resolution represents the fourth round of punitive measures against Iran's nuclear weapons development program since 2006. Iranian leaders, yet again, reacted defiantly:
8.6.10 – RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is popularly known as the “Kingdom of Humanity” and Saudis are known across the world for helping the poor, the needy and victims of calamities.
8.5.10 – Tariq Aziz is slumped on a tattered brown sofa seat cradling his walking stick and cigarettes, his gaunt face topped, incongruously for a practising Christian, by a Muslim prayer cap. It is perhaps only the familiar black-ringed spectacles that signal to the visitor that this was Iraq's former face to the world – Saddam Hussein's right-hand man, his most powerful deputy
8.4. 10 – Yesterday, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) ambushed an IDF position in Israeli territory along the Lebanese border in northern Israel. Coordinated with the United Nations Peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL), the IDF forces were cutting down a tree that obstructed its view of Lebanese movements. The tree was directly on the other side of a fence in Israeli territory which sits south of the internationally recognized “Blue Line”
8.4.10 – The Israeli-Lebanese border is exceptionally calm and uniquely dangerous, both for the same reason: fear that a new round of hostilities would be far more violent and could spill over regionally. Drums of War: Israel and the Axis of Resistance , the la…
8.4.10 – JERUSALEM — I was the first journalist to interview James Snyder when he arrived in 1997 from a sinecure at New York's Museum of Modern Art to head the Israel Museum, the country's premier culturalinstitution. Israel's premier cultural institution is transformed.
8.4.10 – While Obama pushes progressivism on the Middle East, the Arab League and Mahmoud Abbas position themselves to blame Israel when the talks. Byzantine politics have nothing on negotiation strategies in the Middle East between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
8.3.10 – The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which commemorates God giving the Koran to the Prophet Muhammad,[1] begins on the evening of Aug. 10.[2]
8.2.10 – Four Jordanians were injured when terrorists fired five Grad rockets at the Jordanian Red Sea resort of Aqaba and the neighboring Israeli resort of Eilat early on Monday (Aug. 2) morning. Security officials said the rockets appeared to have been fired from the Sinai peninsular in Egypt.
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