Monthly Archives: January 2012
- Iraq nine years after operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’: Back to square one?
- Jan 16 '12 Bomb attack in Nassiriya, 300 km southeast of Baghdad January 5, foto Reuters
Jerusalem, January 16, 2012
Sharon Shaked and Yochanan Visser
This Missing Peace report deals with the situation in Iraq after the pull out of the US army in December last year.
Following the departure of the American army sectarian violence has rapidly…
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- Dutch daily Trouw: The chosen people have to be perfect
- Jan 12 '12 Last week the Dutch Christian daily ‘Trouw’ reached a new low when it published a vicious article about prenatal care in Israel entitled: “The chosen people have to be perfect”.
The writer, Ilse van Heusden, gave birth to a healthy baby boy while temporarily living in Israel.
She succeeded…
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- A new Middle East??
- Jan 9 '12 In Tunis Islamists vow to destroy Israel, while Egyptians ban Jews from visiting tomb of Rabbi
Hamas PM Haniyeh in Tunis
Jerusalem, January 10, 2012
On Monday Ismail Haniyeh visited Tunisia, during his first official Middle East tour as the prime minister of Hamas in Gaza.
During that tour he tried to generate support for his plan…
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- Egypt’s Islamic revolution
- Jan 4 '12 Missing Peace report by
Sharon Shaked and Yochanan Visser
This month marks the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that began when liberal Facebook groups called for a ‘day of revolt’ on January 25th 2011. The uprising caused the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and saw the rise of the Jama’at…
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- The final chance to stop Iran by non-military means
- Jan 2 '12 Video of launch of new Mehrab missile during Velajat exercises last week in Strait of Hormuz
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Iran’s behavior over the past few weeks indicates that the regime now feels threatened by the prospect of biting sanctions targeting oil exports and Iran’s central bank.
Just before the end of 2011 US president Obama…
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