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While the Israeli lobby played a major and probably decisive role in launching the Iraq war - the major reason for the war was the imperial economic national interest. The United States has 200,000 soldiers garrisoned in the Middle East to prop up the Saudis and assure that the almighty dollar remain the only currency convertible to tangible barrels of Arab oil. Americans may be obsessed with m..

"Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States" dated April 2006

Outlines trends in global terrorism, implications for United States

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Key Judgments

Uni..

Islamic anthem became a popular common phenomenon among certain classes. There are many reasons behind that; among which is the Islamic revival looking for different alternatives, a desire for an entire change to the reality which is an Arab from outside but imitating western values in all aspects.

The Reality of the Situation:

Islamic anthem groups spread in ma..

The Egyptian security agencies arrested on Friday six young men at Nasr City, Daqhaliyya Governorate, north of Cairo, while they were hanging posters contained verses from the Quran and sayings by prophet Mohamed (PUH) about Ramadan. A unit including 11 officers and soldiers arr..

Since they were released on March 2, 2006, a group of Libyan university professors affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood haven’t been allowed to return their jobs yet. This prompted the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood to release a statement on September 28, 2006, denouncing the suspension of its professors from their jobs.

The group in its statement lashed out at the government’s ..

Deputy Chairman of  state -owned National Council for Human Rights( NCHR) Dr. Kamal Abul Magd (picture) said that the Council supports calls for amending articles 76 and 77 of the Constitution to allow equal opportunities to all eligible Egyptians to run for president, and limit the president’s term to a maximum two successive terms.”

"There are still thorny issues which..

As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda approaches, we should take the opportunity to assess the results of the response by the US and the international community. The attacks and the response to them have obviously brought about a sea change in international relations, but it would be difficult to argue that further atrocities have become le..

Jordanian King Abdullah II on September 30,2006, ordered the release of the two Muslim Brotherhood Members of Parliament Mohammed Abu Fares, 70, and Ali Abussukar, 45, who were detained in June along with two other deputies after their visit to the family of slain Abu Mosaab el Zarkawi to offer condolences.

 Convicting them of jeopardizing national unity, the Jordanian State Securi..

Signals of a possible American intervention to topple the legitimate PA elected government were mounting, and were preceded by the ongoing security mess in the Palestinian territories that was carried out by security forces loyal to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.

According to reports, the USA decided to intensively intervene with full force to derail the Palestinian democracy and topple the PA..

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, 25 September, met with Muslim diplomats in Rome in an effort to mend relations with the Muslim world following his recent  speech which depicted Islam as a violent religion.

The Pope reportedly assured envoys from 22 predominantly Muslim countries that he had “total esteem and profound respect” for Islam and Muslims. He also pointed out  that both ..

Nine Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others injured in the ongoing clashes between rebels of the PA security apparatuses and elements of the interior ministry’s back-up force that was deployed in various Gaza Strip areas to bridle the security elements who were wreaking havoc in the streets.

Local and TV reports indicated that a Palestinian man, a boy and a security offi..

The Land Center for Human Rights (LCHR) is holding a workshop on October 7th, 2006, in cairo entitled “Can Rural Areas be Reformed Under the Current Policies of the Egyptian Government?”

The Israeli assault on Lebanon has poignantly brought two truths home: that some Arab states are unable to respond to ever- mounting external threats, and that the burden of homeland protection is increasingly..

Where once they had stood for opposite conceptions of human nature and radically different visions of society, today the terms "left" and "right" are words in search of meaning. With the demise of the socialist camp and the declining role of ideology in the political arena, such distinctions have lost much of their historic relevance, their content diluted, their parameters blurred. With the id..

"I believe there is a chance that Hamas, the devils of yesterday, could be reasonable people today. Rather than being a problem, we should strive to make them part of the solution."

Surprising words on the militant Islamist organisation – now the majority party of the Palestinian Authority Legislative Council – from a man who ran the Mossad, Israel’s secret

I traveled to Al-Arish last weekend, to do some research on Islamic militancy in Sinai. I’ll spare you the horror stories of torture I heard from relatives of terror sus..