Israel’s President Criticizes Talk of Unilateral Strike on Iran

By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres, Israel’s president and elder statesman, spoke out Thursday against the prospect of a lone Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a message that contradicts the hawkish, go-it-alone line emanating from the offices of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. The president’s comments came amid a wave of speculation in Israel and abroad that Prime ...

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From Syria’s Ashes

A new Alawite state could redraw the map of the Middle East. by Michael J. Totten An Arab country that’s pro-Western and has a non-Muslim majority? Though it sounds like something that could exist only in an alternate universe, there’s a chance that such a state could emerge from the ongoing conflict in Syria. Alawites make up only 12 percent of the Syrian population, but they overwhelmingly dominate the re ...

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Wisconsin Attack Has Troubling Echoes For Many Sikhs

By THE NEW YORK TIMES For Sikhs in the United States, India and elsewhere, the killing of six people at a gurudwara, or Sikh temple, in Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon has brought grief and sorrow but also concern that the rampage might be the latest example of a hate crime against Sikhs on American soil in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. The police have not yet offered a motive for Sunday’s attack, which ...

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Egypt : A bloody incident in the Sinai

ANOTHER BLOODY incident in the Sinai peninsula has underlined the reality that one of the Middle East’s most sensitive pieces of territory has become a lawless haven for Islamic jihadists. According to Egyptian and Israeli authorities, a group of militants stormed an Egyptian checkpoint in the town of Rafah, on the border with the Gaza Strip; they killed 16 police and border guards and commandeered two vehi ...

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Syria’s Civil War and the Dangers of the Middle East Power Struggle

by Ted Galen Carpenter As the Syrian civil war becomes increasingly chaotic and bloody, some experts caution that the conflict is not a simple morality play featuring an evil regime versus noble, freedom-loving rebels. Instead, it is a complex struggle involving several ethnic and religious factions. The regional context for the Syrian conflict is at least as complex, reflecting both a triangular geopolitic ...

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Mass shooting at Sikh Temple of Wisconsin- Seven killed

 Seven  people have been killed in a shooting at a Sikh temple in the US with the suspected gunman shot dead by police. The shooting took place on Sunday morning at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, outside the city of Milwaukee. Police said five [caption id="attachment_2459" align="alignright" width="223"] Individual from a Sikh family sitting sad after attack[/caption] were found dead inside the temple and th ...

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Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East

Statement by Ambassador Ron Prosor UN Security Council   23 April 2012 Posted By : Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2451" align="alignright" width="244"] Israel Flag[/caption] Thank you, Madame President. Let me begin by thanking you, personally, for your outstanding leadership of the Security Council this month. Churchill once said, “In the time that it takes a lie to get halfway around the world, t ...

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Indian Minister Blamed for Suicide of Air Hostess

By Zaheerul Hassan A 23 former Air hostess of domestic a private airline has reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi. According to the reports late Gitika Sharma has named Haryana minister Gopal Kanda in her suicide note. The police have registered a case of abetment of suicode against the minister.  Notably, Gitika was working for MDLR Airlines wh ...

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