Dennis Ross’ redeployment from the State Department to a more prominent position at the NSC in the White House raises two sets of interrelated questions. Why, and with what consequences? Competing answers to the former include the following. (1) Ross was relieved of his Iran policy coordinator brief so as to remove a possible obstacle [...]
Rooted dogma is tenacious – especially when well fertilized by fear. America’s ‘War on Terror’ is going at full throttle after briefly pausing in neutral during the presidential transition. For all the talk of ‘change’ there is nothing different about how the Obama administration either defines the country’s interests or its audacious global strategy for [...]
It was bravo of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a Muslim country leader to have walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 29 January, in retaliation for not allowing him sufficiently by the moderator to answer to the speech of Israeli President Shimon Peres. [...]
Numerous analysts have said that “Israel will not allow a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. First of all, I am not sure how they would define a “full-blown” crisis. Can the current crisis reach “half-blown” status at least? The place is rubble. Sanitation, electricity, and drinking water facilities are destroyed. Hospitals are destroyed. The systems [...]
The reaction against Israel brutal bombardments on hapless Palestinian muslims among the masses of western and non muslim world are greater compared to the one in muslim umma ( ironically most of muslim countries are showing less or no disquiet ) Large protest demonstrations have been held across the Europe as well as in several [...]
As per saying of new president of United State Barack Obama that ‘Change has Come to America’. The change that is much needed for the American Nation and the rest of the world too. Change that was felt in 20th century after World War I and then after World War II. This feeling of change [...]
Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]
Looking at the tepid global reaction to the massacre of the civilians in Gaza, one wonders whether the conscience of the international community is half asleep or is suffering from something called sympathy fatigue. Hundreds of civilian casualties, incessantly escalating human misery, and with no end in the Israeli military action in sight, even God [...]
As I sat, watched and listened to the coverage of Israel’s bombing of Gaza, I was sadly reminded of a similar type of the one-sided coverage, that proceeded America’s invasion of Iraq. It was quite easy to question or even tell that the information being put forth, was very inaccurate or just outright lies. ANy [...]
