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*Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist in Kuwait, Jordan, UAE and Palestine. He is based in Ramallah, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
SHARE Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Playing Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi
No doubt revolution is brewing and boiling in Iraq against the sectarian government in Baghdad, its U.S. and Iranian supporters as well as against its al-Qaeda sectarian antithesis.
SHARE Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Cornering a Brave Palestinian Man of Peace
The emerging, heavily “pro-Israel†US-proposed framework agreement “appears to ask the Palestinians to accept peace terms that are worse than the Israeli ones they already rejected
SHARE Friday, January 10, 2014 The Saudi Bull in The Arab China Shop
The three-year old conflict in Syria has somewhat been contained within its own borders, but Saudi Arabia’s ongoing warmongering threatens to perpetuate the conflict and, more importantly, to spill it over regionally.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Kerry's Coup from Mediator to Antagonist
Kerry and his administration have obviously coordinated a political coup by the adoption of the Israeli preconditions for recognizing a Palestinian state almost to the letter, turning the Palestinian priorities upside down and changing the terms of reference for the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
SHARE Friday, December 6, 2013 Insurgency Responsible for Civilian Plight of Syrians
The early successes of the insurgents were military exploits against peaceful civilians; they were not achieved in military vs. military battles. It was enough for a few rebels to hold any such peaceful town or village hostage, but it needs an army operation to kick them out.
SHARE Friday, November 29, 2013 Obama's "Big Prize' to Earn Nobel Peace Prize
Obama's "big prize" to make him "feel that I deserve" the Nobel Prize as he had said then will be waiting for him until he ends the ongoing Israeli war on the Palestinian people and occupation of their land, at least since 1967.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 21, 2013 Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan's "Hidden Agenda'
Now it seems Erdogan's "Turkey is already carefully backpedaling" on its foreign policy," said Seufert. It "wants to reconnect" with Iran and "Washington's request to end support for radical groups in Syria did not fall on deaf Turkish ears."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 15, 2013 Libya almost Imploding, Status Quo Unsustainable
The obvious alternative to Zeidan's western supported government would be a stateless society governed by militia warlords, while the survival of his government promises more of the same.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 10, 2013 Saudis Fight a Lost Battle against Change
Riyadh is fighting several preemptive battles outside its borders in its immediate proximity in a desperate attempt to prevent an historic regional tide of change from changing the country's pre-medieval system of governance and social life.
SHARE Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Israeli Factor in Syrian Conflict Unveiled
Syria remains the odd number in the Arab peace-making belt around Israel; no comprehensive peace is possible without Syria; Damascus holds the key even to the survival of the Palestinian, Jordanian, and Egyptian peace accords with Israel. Syria will not hand over this key without the withdrawal of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) from Syrian lands.
SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Rapprochement with US Reinforces Iran Hand in Iraq
Until recently, Iraq under PM al-Maliki was posturing as tactically placating Iran on Syria while committing quietly to its Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA), which al-Maliki signed with the former US president George W. Bush on December 14. 2008.
SHARE Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Tormenting the Souls of Religious Arabs: "Arab Spring' Degrades into Sectarian Counterrevolution
The "Arab Spring" was optimistically named after a season in nature during which life is reborn and was supposed to promise a renewal of the stagnant political, social and economic life in the Arab world, but unfortunately it turned instead into a sectarian season of killing, death and destruction by counterrevolution forces
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 12, 2013 The Shortest Path to Peace in Syria
To end the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights and other Arab Israeli -- occupied lands is the shortest US -- Israeli path to dismantling the Syria -- Iran alliance and to peace in Syria and the region.
SHARE Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Jordan Invites US Targets for Syrian Retaliation
The moment of truth is around the corner for an intervention in Syria either from or with the participation of Jordan, where training in preparation for this moment has been going on by leaps and bounds for the past two years
SHARE Thursday, August 29, 2013 The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons
Kerry's statement was a declaration that Obama has at last given in to the warmongers who have been leading a media blitz that has been beating the drums of war on Syria for two and a half years now; Kerry only added "chemical fuel" to it.
SHARE Monday, August 26, 2013 Egypt's Foreign Relations on Tightrope
U.S. bilateral relations with Egypt seem about to head to a turning point, but for sure at least there is "no doubt" that Washington "can't return to business as usual" with Cairo as Obama told CNN on August 23.
SHARE Thursday, August 15, 2013 The Killers of Peace
Ironically, "Israel's settlement project" has evolved "irreversible" nonetheless, mocking the U.S. repeatedly declared illegitimacy thereof as merely a lip service that has been all throughout a thinly veiled cover of the U.S. actual protection of the accelerating expansion ever since of "Israel's colonial" project
SHARE Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Kerry's Success Worse than His Failure
According to Albert Einstein, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is "insanity," but that is exactly what John Kerry seems to have achieved after six tours of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East since he was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of State
SHARE Thursday, August 1, 2013 Egyptian Revolution Derailed, Contained
Washington D.C. is adapting to this "regime exchange" in order to prevent a "change in the regime," which the successive US administrations have nurtured as a strategic asset to both the United States and its Israeli regional ally since the Camp David accords of 1979