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Hasan Nasrallah's Autobiography (Ya Lesarat Ol-Hoseyn (Tehran)
- Federation of American Scientists)
My
father Abdulkarim used to sell fruit and vegetables; my brothers
would help him. When my father's financial status improved,
he opened a small grocery store in the neighborhood, and I
would go there to help him usually. We had a picture of Imam
Musa al-Sadr hanging on the wall of the store. I would sit
on a chair in front of the picture and stare at it. I wished
that I would become like him one day. (more)
The
war in Lebanon. An Analysis
On
12 July 2006, Hezbollah, the Shia armed group based in the
south of Lebanon, launched a military operation against Israel.
In the attack, two Israeli soldiers were abducted and seven
were killed . Israel, which said it considered the assault/abduction
an act of war, swiftly responded initiating operation ‘Just
Reward’, massively bombing areas in the south of the
country and also in Beirut, the capital of the Levantine state.
Hezbollah’s counter reaction, the launching of rockets
into some northern Israeli cities including Haifa, prompted
Israel to unfold a full scale war, the sixth one in the history
of the fifty-eight year old Israeli – Arab conflict
(more)
A
week in AlAmari (refugee camp)
While
in Jerusalem, I was invited to spend ten days with a family
living in Al-Amari refugee camp, near the city of Ramallah,
West Bank, Palestine. I went there alone and in a very ‘personal
capacity’, introduced to the family by a friend who
took me there and then returned to the Holy city. (more)
The
Samaritans of Mt.Gerizim
If
you are a Christian visiting Nablus, from the very moment
you find out that in the city there is a community of Samaritans,
the reassuring image of the good Samaritan comes to your mind
and there it lingers. And you don't know why it is so, beacuse
you actually never knew a thing about the Samaritans and never
saw one in your lifetime. In fact, the Samaritans form one
of the oldest and smallest religious communities in the world.
They are 650 altogether and they are all concentrated in the
Holy Land. Half of them live in the area of Neve Marka, in
Holon near Tel Aviv, Israel, while the other half inhabits
the Samaritans’ holiest place on earth, which for once
is not city, but a mount: Mount Gerizim, in Nablus, Occupied
Palestinian Territories. (more)
The
Palestinian Parliamentary Elections, the EU and Hamas
The
participation and the likelihood of Hamas' strong showing
in today's Palestinian parliamentary elections have raised
concerns about the consequences that the Islamic militant
group's entrance into politics will have on the regional and
international political arenas. In the first instance, some
hailed at the Hamas' participation to parliamentary elections
as a definitive long-awaited recognition of the 1993 Oslo
acquis, which Hamas shunned boycotting the last, and until
today only, parliamentary elections, held in 1996.........(more)
Why
did Hamas win?
Arguably,
Hamas won because Palestinians were exasperated by Fatah's
corruption and incompetence. Fatah's leaders, who run the
PA since it was founded in 1993, have built a system of cronyism
and nepotism which enriched few and left ordinary citizens
living in dire conditions. Such a system was essentially based
on the atomization of security forces. Having the monopoly
of military force, the leaders of the security units acted
as lords of territorial districts in the land administered
by the PA, often fighting against each other for supremacy.
Moussa Arafat, cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,
is the latest famous victim of the power struggle between
rival Palestinian factions that has been shattering the Palestinian
Authority. Despite reiterated calls for reforms from the international
community and donors, Fatah leaders and members always refused
to comply....(more)
A
Sobering reality, the morning after
By
Kenneth Sikorski
Mr.
Kenneth Sikorski expresses a dissenting opinion on the reasons
that led Palestinians vote for Hamas. Mr. Sikorski argues
that Hamas' landslide victory, rather than a protest against
Fatah's corruption, shows that Palestinians have opted for
'struggle' instead of moderation, for violence instead of
peace.....(more)
The
Israelis disengage: farewell to a Greater Israel ?
With
the withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza
Strip and with the completion of the security fence in the
West Bank, the Israelis have made a move in the stagnant Middle
East zone. By different means, the security barrier and the
withdrawal from Gaza have in fact somehow re-designed Israel's
position in the Middle East. Notably, they bid farewell to
the vision of a Greater Israel, stretching from the Mediterranean
to the Jordan River, taking in the ancient kingdoms of Judea
and Samaria, to the detriment of the Arab population....(more)
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