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Malcolm Fraser: Not Talking Is Never Good Enough
Friday, 25 May 2007, 12:21 am | Middle East News Service
PEOPLE like me, who from the outset opposed the Iraq war, feel deeply concerned at the dilemma in which the United States now finds itself. The debates about withdrawal, to set or not to set a timetable, divide the US in a way that has not occurred for ... More >>
Middle East News Service: Perpetuating Conflict
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 10:36 am | Middle East News Service
Maher Mughrabi’s opinion piece from today’s Melbourne Age is timely. The issue of the nature of Israel and the direction it is heading has become more important by the day. It was brought into sharp focus by a series of documents produced by ... More >>
MENS Translation: Gideon Levy - Everyone Is Guilty
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 4:50 pm | Middle East News Service
The Israeli media at the moment can be described as wall to wall coverage of the Winograd Commission. The quality media elsewhere has also done a reasonable job in detailing the contents and reaction. What is missing, however, is the small boy saying ... More >>
A Saudi Prince Tied To Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 9:55 am | Middle East News Service
The purpose of this news service is to provide an alternative service, not to duplicate the mainstream media. So unless anything from the Israeli peace movement comes my way there will be nothing to add to reams of information coming your way in relation ... More >>
ME Big Players Do Not Want US Troops To Leave Iraq
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 7:09 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comment: Hussein Agha’s articles come under the rubric of quality items. This is the analysis of someone who knows what is talking about. He does provide a comprehensive overview of who wants to US to keep on bleeding in ... More >>
Middle East News: Not The Israel We Dreamed Of
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 3:51 pm | Middle East News Service
The English version of this article appears to have been poorly translated. This is evident not only from the inconsistency of spelling but there was at least one paragraph that does not make sense. I have therefore compared it with the original ... More >>
Middle East News Service: Don't Give 'Em Guns
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 1:20 am | Middle East News Service
Yossi Beilin’s heading would be recognised by most Israelis and others who follow the region’s politics closely. The forces of the Right have always use that slogan against the Palestinian Authority. But quite apart from the allusion, all supporters ... More >>
Radical Jihad To The Politics Of Compromise
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 1:20 am | Middle East News Service
More words of wisdom from former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami. The question of how one deals with Islamic political movement is often asked. One can argue that moderation is impossible or that only pro-Globalisation people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali ... More >>
Is Bishara the 'Palestinian Herzl'?
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:37 am | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments : For quite a few days I have been waiting on some useful information in regard to the case of Knesset Member Azmi Bishara. While the situation is far from clear there will probably be enough to compile something ... More >>
Middle East New Service: A Godforsaken War
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:10 pm | Middle East News Service
When it comes to wars, guerrilla armies and terrorism, Ephraim Halevy has a reputation of knowing what he is talking about. As former head of the Mossad and most recently head of Israel’s National Security Council he has certainly had plenty of experience. ... More >>
Middle East News Service: What Arab Initiative?
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:01 pm | Middle East News Service
Any who tells you that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is simple is, with all due respect, fooling themselves. Unless you adopt the most one-sided, and one-eyed, narrative it is complex. But there are junctures in which a single article can explain what ... More >>
Opinion Piece Re Australia In Haaretz
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:58 am | Middle East News Service
Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger writing from Melbourne in the Hebrew Haaretz on the Australia Syndrome referring to Raphael Israeli who, as she put it, threw a stone into the Australian well. More >>
Middle East Round Up For January 30
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:03 am | Middle East News Service
INTRODUCTION (by the Daily Briefing’s Wayne Sanderson): In his regular review of events in the Middle East, Sol Salbe looks at the tragic death of ten-year-old Abir Aramin from the West Bank town of Anata, the controversial use of cluster bombs ... More >>
Middle East News Service: You Are What You Read
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 12:13 am | Middle East News Service
Sol Salbe comments: As someone who spends most of the days scanning the Israeli and international media it’s seems almost axiomatic to me that people perception depend on their source of reading. This occasional series shows just how important it is ... More >>
Iran's Pursuit Of Nukes Capability Stems From Fear
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 12:13 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service comments: There is no shortage of reasons to dislike the Iranian regime. It’s Holocaust denial campaign is just but the most recent one. People on the Left would also add its union busting activities especially in regard ... More >>
Hamas Of. Accepts Israel, But Short Of Recognition
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:59 am | Middle East News Service
With so much attention being focussed on the Middle East it is still possible for a major story to slip under the radar. Sure there’s Bush’s (predictable) speech but the trouble is that we have become so used to certain expectations that we mentally ... More >>
Shulamit Aloni: There Is Apartheid In Israel
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 3:22 pm | Middle East News Service
A new order issued by the GOC Central command bans the conveyance of Palestinians in Israeli vehicles. Such a blatant violation of the right to travel joins the long list of humans rights violations carried out by Israel in the [Occupied] Territories. More >>
The IDF and the state/ Military law is back
Monday, 8 January 2007, 11:34 am | Middle East News Service
Is anyone in control of this country? Is the entire country one small no-man's-land? Isn't there anyone left who can tell right from left? This much is clear: There is no government. There's no prime minister worthy of the name, no defense minister ... More >>
Middle East News: Three Days Of Callousness
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:12 pm | Middle East News Service
A typical product of the Israeli education system I am no expert in what happened in Bethlehem at this time of the year, a couple of millennia ago. But I know enough to tell that there was a lot of cruelty, mean-hearted behaviour, callousness and ... More >>
Middle East News: End The Policy Of Isolation
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:01 pm | Middle East News Service
The English edition of Haaretz carries this as its leading opinion piece item (I’m not sure where it fits in the Hebrew edition, if at all.) It is a message directed mainly to the US Administration and people, and to a lesser extent the people of ... More >>
