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Posts Tagged ‘Lebanon’

Let’s not have a false sense of security

By Justin Podur • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Numerous analysts have said that “Israel will not allow a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. First of all, I am not sure how they would define a “full-blown” crisis. Can the current crisis reach “half-blown” status at least? The place is rubble. Sanitation, electricity, and drinking water facilities are destroyed. Hospitals are destroyed. The systems [...]



Deliberate Acquiescence to Israeli Terrorism

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]



Palestinians/ The Eternal Wailers

By Johann • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As an IndianĀ  Christian i had this admiration for Israeli David who felled the giant Palestinian fighter Goliath with his catapult. So when Indian government favored the Palestinian state over Israel I used to be emotionally aligned with Israel till i read the Arnold Toynbee’s article about the history of Israeli/Palestinian conflict which explained the [...]



Expected US Mis-adventures

By Farid Masood • Oct 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As the presidential polls are getting nearer, G,W.Bush’s successor candidate Mr John McCains defeat likely to be witnessed. Even after the polls results the prevailing situation may be formed so that it may ignite such events on the globe which may create difficulties for the opposition candidate Barak Obama to handle in days to come.
We [...]



India’s Aqua War

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The word ‘rival’ comes from the Latin ‘rivalis’ meaning ’some one sharing a river’. A water war between two Sumerian city states Lagashand Umma 4500 years ago is recorded on a stone carving showing vultures flying off with the heads of the impoverished and defeated Umma people.
Only history itself can convince one of such a [...]