International Affairs

On Tuesday American troops withdrew from Iraq’s cities to their barracks in accordance with an agreement the George W. Bush administration and the Iraqi government signed hours before a UN mandate permitting US presence in Iraq expired. The June 30 withdrawal was a milestone indeed, some analysts may say, given the fears many people entertained when the United States invaded …

At a seminar titled “Building Bridges,” jointly organized by the archbishop of Canterbury and Bahçeşehir University, held at the university’s Beşiktaş campus on Tuesday, Christian and Muslim scholars discussed the connection between creation and science from the perspectives of both religions. Speaking at the seminar, Bahçeşehir University Rector Deniz Ülke Arıboğan noted that their university attaches great importance to freedom …

One fact has emerged in the running brouhaha before, in and after the presidential elections of June 12th in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For long the Western mass media has projected Iran and its Islamic government as a despotic rule of obscurantist mullahs, with no freedom and democracy whatsoever. In addition they demonized the Islamic government of denying human-rights …

Obama’s speech in Cairo was full of nice politically correct (PC) expressions of love for Islam and Muslims but dishonestly evaded the central issue of ongoing US Alliance occupation and devastation of Muslim countries and abusive mass imprisonment of the conquered populations of these Occupied Territories including Occupied Somalia (not mentioned), Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria (not mentioned), Occupied Lebanon (not …

Israel’s latest strategy for complicating the peace process is to delay discussions of Jerusalem’s future. Steering debate to other agendas enables Israel to establish more “facts on Jerusalem ground,” which consists of annexing lands, constructing bypass roads and housing and preparing for the decisive moment that will allow expansion of the Maale Adumim settlement and the development of the E1 …

A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times as much water as the Palestinians from a vital shared aquifer. The region faces a fifth consecutive year of drought this summer, but the World Bank report found huge disparities in water use between Israelis …