For the Syrian opposition to unite is a good thing. For it to divide is a bad thing. This is quite simply how one can summarize the “wisdom” of how the supporters of the revolution against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad view the opposition (...)
Abbas Beydoun has an unpublished text titled in French: “Maladresse,” in which he speaks about his life as being a long series of clumsy events caused by his lack of concentration and focus. This is where the title comes from.
Abbas, who is lying (...)
Nothing is as unattractive as the Lebanese municipal elections, except for the showdown between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Future Movement over the security agreement and the Telecommunications Ministry. However, the lack of attraction does (...)
Session after session, the Lebanese dialogue becomes meaningless and the leaders of the sects and parties turn towards the Presidential Palace in a bid to renew – on a non-periodic basis- the truce consolidated by the Doha Agreement two years ago. (...)
We are stuck between two storms. We have barely survived an all-out Sunni-Shiite war in Iraq and Lebanon and we are not getting ready for major changes in the entire region. The proposed topics are not restricted to the future of the Iranian nuclear (...)
The confrontations between the Palestinian youths and the occupation forces in Jerusalem brought forward the aficionados of white and black questions: Is it the outset of a third intifada or is it not an intifada at all? In fact, they had (...)
Israel is experiencing today what Arab peoples have gone through for decades: A government hiding behind the pretexts of foreign threats to justify its control of power and its ignorance of reformative and developmental requirements.
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The execution of Saddam Hussein at the end of 2006 was the first step in consolidating Saddamism as a political method and practice, which are flourishing in Iraq. In one of the sad ironies of Iraq, the return of Saddamism today passed through the (...)
The second face of the decisions and measures of the Israeli government to escalate the settlement activities is reflecting itself on the current preparations to convene the Fatah Movement conference.
The inter-Palestinian conflict has (...)