Readers of the FPA blog network have assuredly noticed an exchange of opinions between fellow blogger Rob Grace and I. In a very well thought-out critique of my previous post that the United Nations is anti-Israel, Rob contends that I “misread” the true nature of that global body, which he says is actually pro-Israel. His […]
Dear Readers: I am Reza Akhlaghi, presiding over the Iran page on FPA Blogs. Our Iran page is presently experiencing technical difficulties, so in the interim I have been invited to be a guest blogger here on the Middle East page “. So please stay tuned as my first piece here will be posted on […]
Israel’s changing demographics are always a touchy subject, with some Israeli politicians arguing that higher Arab birth-rates will result in Jews becoming a minority, while some researchers contend that Arab and Jewish birth rates are actually very similar. Regardless of whether the Jewish, Arab or other populations are on the rise, these people still need […]
Next month Egypt is to hold its parliamentary elections. In preparation the ruling party has taken to arresting opposition members. The Muslim Brotherhood members were jailed for hanging election posters. Government officials stated that the Brotherhood violated an election law that prescribed religious slogans on posters. As per numerous reports, the ruling party’s posters were […]
At a lecture at the Middle Ease Institute several weeks ago, Dr. Thomas O’Donnell described the modern relationship between the United States and Iran. He characterized the struggle between the two as a battle for the hegemony in the Middle East. America is still heavily reliant on petroleum and the Middle East is still the […]
Morocco is undertaking a bold step and a plan to fight corruption. The plan calls for all rich government officials to unveil their assets. And for the government to protect and provide for the workers of the newly established commission. The plan will also include new courses in the country’s schools on the fight against […]
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies just concluded a study on the Palestinian social media with participants in Gaza and the West Bank, including all who identified themselves as Palestinians in the forumsphere. The study was carried out to assess and gauge the Palestinian sentiment of the current state of affairs in the territories. The […]
President Barack Obama signed a proclamation today making Oct. 24 United Nations Day, but does that moniker then also make it anti-Israel day on Monday as well? The United Nations, in principle, is an exemplary organization that brings countries with often opposing priorities into the same forum where they can advocate ending world hunger, global […]
There are most certainly valid criticisms of Israel that have no roots in anti-Jewish sentiments. Unfortunately, many criticisms against Israel are simply veiled anti-Semitic remarks, and they are often times fairly direct. Israel was created in large part in response to the Holocaust, where anti-Semitism gripped Europe and led to the death of six million […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has, to say the least, been criticized fairly heavily in this blog, and I think it’s about to time to show the other side of this debate. Most recently, you likely remember dear reader, I said Lieberman is irrelevant and repeatedly circumvented by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. And that […]
The self-described whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, will release as many as 400,000 sensitive military documents on the U.S. mission in Iraq as early as next week.
It should be no surprise that some Islam advocacy organizations in the United States have more critical views of Israel than, say, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Today the Anti-Defamation League — an organization that fights bigotry and often focuses on anti-Semitism — released a list of the top ten anti-Israel groups in the […]
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