Tag Archives: Arab World
The traditional Islamic roots of “Islamic State”
Magdi Abdelhadi says only a fundamental reform of the way Islam is preached and taught in Arab countries would drain the swamp from which the likes of “Islamic State” grow and flourish. Read more [...]
The absent intellectual war against Islamist cutthroats
The aerial war waged by the United Read more [...]
Israel’s policy of incremental genocide continues
Jamal Kanj reminds us that although Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest military adventure in the Gaza Strip has failed, Israel’s "starvation diet" and "incremental genocide" against the Strip’s 1.7 million human beings continues. Read more [...]
Time running out for peace in Middle East
Uri Avnery says time is running out for Israelis to make peace with Arab nationalists, especially with the Palestinian people, before religious fanatics – Muslims and Jews – sweep across the region. Read more [...]
Jihadism and how to isolate, contain and defeat it
Alan Hart argues that jihadism cannot be defeated militarily but can be contained and eradicated if the US changes its foreign policy and Muslims reinterpreted the Quran to suit the modern age. Read more [...]
The choice facing Arabs: integration or irrelevance
Jamal Kanj views a recent UN report on the failure of the Arab states to integrate, and argues that Arabs face a choice between democracy and integration or disintegration and irrelevance. Read more [...]
Accepting responsibility for our ills in the Arab world
The failure to take responsibility Read more [...]
The migrant slave workers of the Arab world
Graham Peebles examines the plight of migrant workers in the Arab world – labourers and domestic workers from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – whose conditions are akin to those of slaves. Read more [...]
It’s all about appeasing Israeli racism
Jamal Kanj says the latest US “peace proposal” – swapping lands seized by Israel in 1948 with ones it occupied in 1967 – is immoral and illegal and appeases racism. Read more [...]
Israel again rebuffs peace with the Arab world
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s lack of interest in the latest Arab territorial concession exposes its longstanding lie that the Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" to make peace. Read more [...]
