Author: Imran
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Fayyad’s Folly: Disarming His Own People
In the Washington Post’s latest attempt to adequately illustrate the complex political issues regarding Israeli/Palestinian relations, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was highlighted as a “technocrat†steadily gaining political ground thought military concessions. A strategy that alienates Hamas, the other major player in Palestinian politics, Fayyad disturbingly argued, “[T]he state should have sole purview over arms…
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News and Analysis (7/16/09)
Other news outlets also ran the interview in which Farouk Kaddoumi charged that “Mr. Abbas conspired with Israel in 2003 to kill Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat”: Why Palestinian Leaders Have Banned Al Jazeera (Christian Science Monitor) The meeting was described as an attempt “to investigate the positions in general terms of both parties without any…
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News and Analysis (7/15/09)
Israeli troops confirm the aggressive and indiscriminate nature of their orders during the siege of Gaza: Israel Troops Speak Out on Gaza War (Al Jazeera) The Uighurs were originally protesting a Chinese program that forced hefty fines on workers who refused relocation: China Unrest Tied To Labor Program (Washington Post) In supporting Ahmadinejad, Khamenei has…
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News and Analysis (7/14/09)
“The area of real concern in Congress is that the planned operations may also have involved the covert surveillance of American citizens”: Dick Cheney ‘Hid Plans to Kill Al-Qaida Operatives Abroad’ (Guardian) Israelis laugh in the face of British revocations as ineffective, noting that “177 British arms-export licenses remain intact”: Britain Cuts Some Arms Exports…
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News and Analysis (7/13/09)
“Initiating a criminal investigation is a crucial step towards restoring the moral authority of the United States abroad and restoring the rule of law at home”: Bush Anti-Terror Policies Get Reluctant Revisit (Washington Post) While Israeli interests are hardly in jeopardy in the US, the settlement issue has brought the Israeli lobby into uncomfortable territory:…
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Repercussions of the Iranian Elections
Summary Kaveh Ehsani’s, Arang Keshavarzian’s and Norma Claire Moruzzi’s Article on Iranian Elections: Despite certain peculiarities, Ahmadinejad’s reelection should not be considered overwhelming surprising. Every previous Iranian incumbent has been reelected and the circumstances of the election stood as a huge advantage for Ahmadinejad. He had control of the state, including media outlets, and had…
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News and Analysis (7/11-12/09)
Breaking from Obama’s strategy of “moving foward”, Attorney General Holder mulls appointing a criminal investigator into the CIA torture practices of the Bush administration … Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed (Washington Post) … as revelations emerge that information was withheld from House and Senate intelligent committees for 8 years under direct orders from Cheney: Cheney…
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News and Analysis (7/10/09)
Insurgency may soon become secondary issue in stabilizing Iraq: Kurds Defy Baghdad, Laying Claim to Land and Oil (NY Times) “Unlike the Tibetans, Uighurs do not benefit from a well-defined U.S. policy supporting their political rights, autonomy and cultural identity”… The Right Way To Help the Uighurs (Washington Post) …Meanwhile, the streets were relatively quiet…
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News and Analysis (7/9/09)
Blamed by China for the Uigher riots, a Muslim woman entrepreneur insists that her people want “what I want, … they want freedom….” The Mother of the Uighur Movement (Washington Post) … meanwhile, Uighur Muslims must abandon their lives in Urumqi or continue to live in constant fear of reprisals from the Han majority: In…
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News and Analysis (7/8/09)
Imprisoning the innocent: “If, for some reason, he’s not convicted for a lengthy prison sentence, then, as a matter of legal authority, I think it’s our view that we would have the ability to detain that person,” – Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson: Indefinite Detentions Are Backed (Washington Post) US forces begin to understand the…
