Who is Winning?
July 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Uri Avnery asks what history would look like if it were written in the style of the "Solid Cliff (a.k.a. Protective Edge) operation?
Tag Archive: Middle-East
Iraq: US: Insurgents Have Chemical and Nuclear Material – “Minimal Risk.”
July 17, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On 11th and 12th June, ISIS gained control of the Al Muthanna former chemical weapons complex where, in the 1980s, Iraq developed weapons believed to be on par with, then, the US and the former Soviet Union
The Atrocity
July 12, 2014 1:04 am Leave your thoughts Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed
So, you think you know Iraq?
July 10, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts After the nearly decade long occupation of Iraq, you would have thought that some within British political circles would have learned about the country they sent troops to occupy back in 2003.
The Watch on the Jordan
July 6, 2014 12:22 am Leave your thoughts The Arab world is in turmoil. Syria and Iraq are breaking apart, the thousand-year old conflict between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites is reaching a new climax
An Armed Ghetto
June 28, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts One side's terrorists are the other side's freedom fighters. That is not simply a matter of terminology. It is a difference of perception, which has far-reaching practical consequences
Sisyphus Redeemed
June 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts If there is a God, he surely has a sense of humor. The career of Shimon Peres, who is about to finish his term as President of Israel, is clear evidence
Has the US-UK War for Oil Detonated the “New Iraq”?
June 21, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Flames are rising from Iraq's largest oil refinery at Baiji, the result of mortar attacks by the varying forces sweeping towards the capital city. Felicity Arbuthnot describes the latest tragedy to befall Iraq
A Coup? Nonsense!
June 13, 2014 9:54 pm Leave your thoughts Journalist and former member of the Israeli parliament, Uri Avnery, describes how the Israeli Defence Force is held on a pedestal
Good for the Jews?
June 8, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The claim by Binyamin Netanyahu that he has a right to pick and choose the Palestinian government is rather astonishing, writes Uri Avnery