Obama is visiting the middle East soon insh Allah and with a quick look to his scheduled visit ,I found that my country Egypt , a leading power in the region is not included. The countries that he is going to visit are : Iraq “to meet with the troops”, Israel “to calm down the Jewish lobby...
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I say, go ahead, I like the sound of that. I’ll tell you why.
Not long after Iraq was discovered to be a colossal blunder, war drums began to pound for Iran. A not so democratic place with an oppressive regime who’s a danger to its neighbors and the U.S. as well as being a state sponsor...
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This is a brand new Middle East for sure that suits a brand new world , another step towards the new middle East where the Usually leading countries are substituted with other countries in the leading place,it is not about dictatorship regimes and minorities . In the last 20Th century Egypt and Sa...
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Although Saudi Arabia keeps the same aggressive attitude on the Lebanese crisis as told here on Al-Akhbar saying that Saudi Arabia advised its Lebanese allies who are negotiating Qatar to maneuver and gain time ‘till the Saudi [sick] mind thinks of an alternative plan, but I have a reason to think...
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At a stop in Sharm el-Sheikh during his Middle East tour, President Bush told Arab leaders they must work for democracy and that they should: "treat their people with the dignity and respect they deserve. Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition ...
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Israeli-American blogger Daniel Lubetsky, traveling in Egypt, interviews his taxi driver on leading figures in the Middle East. “I asked him to rank people or countries, thumbs up or thumbs down. Here were his rankings on 24 questions from Bush to Ahmadinejad, from Olmert to Nasrallah, from B...
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Could there be a more perfect image of the catastrophic self-inflicted rout suffered by U.S. Middle East policy under President George W. Bush? This week, the President will party with Israel’s leaders celebrating their country’s 60th anniversary — and champion a phony peace process whose expl...
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President Bush arrived in Israel this afternoon and he will be here until Friday, when he moves on to Saudi Arabia. Jihad Watch reports on a posting on an Islamist site that claims that the President will be targeted in Saudi Arabia by al-Qaeda trained snipers.
According to the posting, membe...
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Amira Al Hussaini
· 9:05 pm
· Israel · Palestine · Saudi Arabia · Yemen
Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace grabbed the headlines as soon as newsmen caught wind of the scandal. Bloggers followed closely on their heel, including those from the Middle East and North Africa, whose attention was turned to the humiliation his wife must have suffered from and indignation of having her to stand by him as he announced his resignation.
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Osama Bin Laden has presented himself to the Arab and Muslim worlds as a departure from the ordinary and the corrupt. He has impressed many young men of those worlds with his rejection of the flashy lifestyle (at least as far as we know) of the region's worldly leaders. Rather, he lives the life of ...
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