Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember when the Arab League was ticked off at the joking suggestion that Israel mediate between Algeria and Egypt in their simmering dispute over football? Well, maybe they do have a sense of humor after all. Al Arabiya ( Arabic) reports that the Arab League has asked a prominent, honorable Arab to mediate the dispute. His name? Moammar Qaddafi! The Libyan news agency reported that the Secretary...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Israel's Security cabinet voted to approve a 10 month 'settlement freeze' on building in Judea and Samaria ( AKA the West bank)as a peace offering to try and get negotiations between Israel and Fatah started: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced a ten-month settlement freeze at a Jerusalem press conference on Wednesday evening after the security cabinet approved the plan, and said the move was...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accepted an Arab League request to calm tension between Egypt and Algeria sparked by their soccer World Cup play-off matches, Libyan state media reported Tuesday.
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Yemeni rebels are recruiting Somalis from refugee camps as mercenaries. Al-Houthi rebels on Yemen's northern border are hiring Somalis from refugee camps to fight against the Yemeni government. Ibrahim A-Shuweimi, the Arab League's envoy to Mogadishu, said in a report that the conflict in Somalia was forcing many Somalis to flee for Yemen and offer their services to the Al-Houthi rebels for financial...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Adventurism, Opportunism, and Recklessness By Rannie Amiri Information Clearing House "....Yet, the U.S. signed a cooperation agreement on military intelligence and training with Saleh’s government last week, thus making them party to the conflict . This ironically puts them on the same side as elements of Al-Qaeda , employed by Saleh to fight the Houthis. Although the Gulf monarchies and...
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
n 1951 the Arab League established the Bureau for Boycotting Israel. Based in Damascus, Syria, the bureau has lost much of its authority since Egypt, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed peace treaties with Israel… Before the US-led invasion, Iraq adhered closely to the instructions of the bureau. Israeli companies, those with Israeli shareholders [...]
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
guardian.co.uk home Palestinians call for EU to back independence • Frustration at impasse on 'two-state project' • Israel warns of retaliation over any unilateral move Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP Palestinians have formally asked the European Union to urge the UN security council to recognise a fully...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday criticized the Arab League (AL) for not boycotting his bitter rival Islamic Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip. Abbas told a group of Palestinian businessmen at his Ramallah headquarters that the AL should boycott Hamas movement "because it is the one which obstructs reaching an inter-reconciliation agreement." "There has been a previous...
GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Well, well -- wail! News that the so nice - he be nom d'guerr'd twice! Abu Mazen/M'Moud Abbas -- the President of the West Bank and the rocket rich Strip turf (collectively called Palestine) is ready to jettison the escape pod and high tail it for his super swanky beach front villa in Q'Tar. Saw that one a mile away . Just like the happy happy fact that HAMAS couldn't get re elected as grave diggers...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Arab League chief Amr Moussa on Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider his decision not to run in the upcoming presidential election, statement said. According to the statement, Moussa called on Abbas to continue leading the Palestinian National Authority. Moussa praised the Palestinian President's decision not to continue negotiations with Israel unless it stopped building...
P/Oed Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A ccording to an Article on World Net Daily(WND), the White House is close to making a Deal where they will support the Creation of a Palestinian State based upon Pre-1967 borders. Here is A part if the Ariticle: "according to a top Palestinian Authority official, the Obama administration has largely adopted the positions of the PA to create a Palestinian state within two years based on the pre-1967...
Rootless Cosmopolitan (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
‘Who lost China?” was the battle cry of a witch-hunt conducted in the US State Department following the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s communists. The department’s “China hands”, critics charged, had been woefully ignorant of the dynamics at work on the ground in China after the Second World War, and undermined the US ally Chiang Kai-shek. While the purge that followed...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Palestinian sources report tension between PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas and Arab League Secretary-General 'Amr Moussa, stemming from the latter's refusal to stop meeting with Hamas leaders and his refusal to blame Hamas for the failure ... November 8, 2009, 10:29 am
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday met Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa and expressed China's willingness to further its cooperation with the Arab countries by enriching the contents of the China-Arab friendly cooperation.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority. "The relationship between Chinese civilisation and Islamic civilisation goes back years," Wen said in a speech delivered at the Cairo-based headquarters of the 22-member...
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