Middle East

  Ruins of the Abu Khadra complex for civil adminstration following an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. Credit: Mohammed Omer/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Nov 28 2012 (IPS) – A long outstanding international conference on a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, scheduled to take place in Finland next month, has been postponed, giving rise to speculation on whether it will ever …

  Once again Israel   unleashed its killing machine in Gaza as part of its long term strategy   to drive out Palestinians from there   in the same way  Palestinians were driven out around seven decades ago. The ultimate purpose is to annex Gaza into greater Israel. To achieve this end Israel adopts its ruthless policy of crime, conspiracy, violence, deception and …

Connecting the dots of recent dramatic events in Bahrain spells one unmistakable message — the US-backed Al Khalifa regime is on the political ropes. It is desperately trying to defeat a determined pro-democracy movement that just won’t lie down or go away.   The regime is fighting for its very survival under unrelenting pressure from the mainly Shia population, who …

Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967.  The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, these three wars were not the only Arab-Israel confrontations. From the period of 1948 …

Washington reportedly sends Tehran indirect message saying it will not back Israeli strike on nuclear facilities as long as Iran refrains from attacking American facilities in Persian Gulf    The United States has indirectly informed Iran, via two European nations, that it would not back an Israeli strike against the country's nuclear facilities, as long as Tehran refrains from attacking …

I am sure that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is right when he says that Israel has not yet made up its mind about whether or not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The question is – What will most likely be the determining factor in the mind of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu? In my assessment the answer is as obvious …