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Israel Involved In Talks With Both Hamas & Syria

Despite official Israeli government resolutions not to negotiate with either terrorists or rival states that support terrorism, the government of Israel has now officially acknowledged that it is actively involved in talks with both Hamas and Syria and is seeking...

Posted on May 23, 2008 12:00 PM

Finding Barack Obama's 'Inner Jimmy Carter' - Part 1

The New York Observer published an interesting piece back in February which draws parallels between Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, citing their similar "emotional" appeal to Democratic voters during their respective campaigns, which in both instances were very effective at...

Posted on April 25, 2008 12:01 AM

Jimmy Carter's Endorsement of Barack Obama

It's become quite predictable, the way in which the Obama campaign has managed and released the endorsements during the campaign. Every time Barack's ass ends up in hot water the campaign rolls out another high-profile endorsement. When Obama flubbed, flailed and failed miserably in last Wednesday Philadelphia debate... Shazam!, former Clinton White House notable Robert Reich's endorsement of Barack Obama is announced. The fact is that Reich has been excoriating Clinton for months now, and the endorsement was kept in the campaign's pocket and deployed when it could do them the most good. So when an endorsement is hidden and not announced... that's noteworthy too, and that's what we're seeing now with Jimmy Carter's endorsement of Barack Obama.

Posted on April 22, 2008 1:30 PM

Hamas Takeover of the West Bank Imminent

A senior Palestinian official isn't optimistic about Mahmoud Abbas' ability to hold off Hamas in the West Bank as reported by the UK Telegraph: "Mr Abbas's leadership is not strong enough to stand up to the armed factions here in...

Posted on August 21, 2007 6:00 AM

How Hamas Engineered Journalist's Release

Interesting details are appearing on the BBC web site about how Hamas engineered Alan Johnston's release. He (a senior BBC journalist in Gaza) talked about the night before Alan Johnston was released from his captors, a group calling itself the...

Posted on July 7, 2007 12:30 PM

Bush Plot to Overthrow Hamas Foiled

Jonathan Steele at the Guardian has a scathing commentary on the Bush administration's plot to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government in the Palestinian territories. Did they jump or were they pushed? Was Hamas's seizure of Fatah security offices in...

Posted on June 23, 2007 9:00 AM

Hamas Victory in Gaza Could be the First of Many

The collapse of Fatah forces in Gaza (as reported by McClatchy Newspapers) has important lessons to teach us about the eventual fate of Fatah in the West Bank. It could also have implications for the fate of similar secular...

Posted on June 22, 2007 3:00 AM

Moderate Arabs Unite Against Hamas

MSNBC story: Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt's president invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting will...

Posted on June 21, 2007 8:00 PM

Gaza Revolt a Searing Rebuke for Bush

MSNBC story: As early as the spring of 2005, Abbas had warned American officials that he did not have the popular support to disarm Hamas, the Islamist party that turned suicide terror bombings into a standard tactic in Israel and...

Posted on June 17, 2007 7:59 PM

Hamas Flag Flies Over Gaza

As most of you know by now the flag of Hamas (shown at the left) is now flying over Gaza. Hamas militants have smashed all the Fatah bases in the coastal enclave and effectively seized total control. Almost a...

Posted on June 17, 2007 10:00 AM

Hamas Taking it to Fatah in Gaza

In an earlier post I explained how Israel and the US were taking sides in the civil war brewing in Gaza and made this prediction: Ultimately, Hamas will probably win this struggle because their followers are more radicalized and fanatical....

Posted on June 13, 2007 1:30 PM

U.S. Backing Covert Wars Throughout the Mideast

The public Bush Doctrine of seeking democracy in the Mideast seems to have given way to the reality of the actual Bush Doctrine of the U.S. funding covert wars all through the Mideast to further the foreign policy goals of...

Posted on May 23, 2007 11:00 AM

Taking Sides in Another Civil War

Not content with the unmitigated disaster of the civil war in Iraq, the Bush administration is now actively promoting a new civil war; this time they've targeted the impoverished and miserable prison camp for 1.5 million Palestinians otherwise known as...

Posted on May 18, 2007 3:02 PM

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