Category: Dr. Ahmad’s blog
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Why No Success in the Egyptian Mediated Negotiations?
Why no Success in the Egyptian Conducted Negotiations? Here are my answers to questions from PressTV as to the negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Q. Why is Israel unable to achieve any viable conclusion in it’s conversation with Hamas? A. The most important of the many impediments to a viable negotiation between Israel and Hamas…
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Advising Obama on the Middle East
This past week the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) held a panel discussion moderated by Georgetown University professor John Voll on Obama in the Middle East. The panelists were Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Hisham Melhem of Al-Arabiyya (who scored the first official interview with President Obama), Prof.…
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Gaza Aftermath: The Return of Netanyahu?
I was recently interviewed by Javier Méndez Araya, journalist in El Mercurio newspaper in Santiago Chile about the potential for Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to the helm of Israel politics after the tragic and disastrous invasion of Gaza. Here are my answers to his questions. Q. After the war in Gaza, do you think there is…
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Bahrain Noted for Outstanding Fiscal Freedom
Every year the Heritage Foundation puts out its rankings of economic freedom in the world. This year the USA came in sixth. Of the Muslim countries, Bahrain scored best, coming at #16, with an economy ranked overall at 75% free. Bahrain got honorable 80% scores on trade freedom, business freedom, and government size, 74% on…
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Al-Arian to Be Tried Yet Again
The cruel circus surrounding the trials of Dr. Sami Al-Arian continues. We must declare our admiration for Judge Leonie Brinkema who has maintained her judicial integrity in the challenging balancing act of maintaining the rights of the accused even as the prosecution employs double dealing with a deck already stacked against defenders of the Palestinian…
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Dare We Hope?
Even as John McCain made an impeccably gracious concession speech yesterday, voices of his supporters interrupted him with boos directed against the new President-elect. Those boos reminded you of the why McCain lost: the frightening jingoistic, racist, Islamophobic rhetoric of too many of his supporters and the trail of destruction visited upon the Republican Party’s…
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Wayne Gilchrist, Rudyard Kipling, and Jacob Brownosky
Congressman Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) was among the speakers at a gala dinner sponsored by the Council for the National Interest (CNI) to honor Congressman Paul Findley, author of They Dare to Speak Out. CNI seeks to re-orient American foreign policy to the benefit of the United States rather than foreign countries. Congressman Gilchrist, who recently…
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Exploring Connections Between the Economy and Foreign Policy
Here are my answers to recent questions from Farspress about the relationship of the economic crisis on American foreign policy. Q- The U.S economy supremacy suffered from the U.S invasion to Afganistan and Iraq and the alleged “development of democracy.” How do you see the future of this trend? A. The disastrous collapse of the…
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A Palestinian Christian Speaks
Naim Ateek is the founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem and the author of Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. He spoke at the Festival Center in DC on Oct. 3 at the invitation of the Friends of Sabeel—North America and the US Campaign to End the Israeli…
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Do the Saudis Follow the Sunnah Regarding the Eid Date?
Yesterday, I received an e-mail asking me to comment on the following: “The current regime occupying the Holy Land of Hijaz Al Muqadas formally known as the Kingdom of Al Saud has announced the first day of Shawaal 1429 Hj, (Tuesday, September 30, 2008) claiming to have sighted the new moon. Claims were made as…
