Tag: Israel
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Roots of Evil
Israel has struck Gaza again. This time more than 365 peoples including innocent men, women, and children have been killed. Around 600 people have been injured, a majority of them being in serious condition. Six months old ceasefire between Hamas and Israel , that ended…
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Mubarak’s Destabilising Role
Israel’s Gaza carnage started just a day after Tzipi Livni, Israeli foreign minister, returned from Egypt after meeting, pro-western secular president, Mr. Hosni Mubarak. Israeli Foreign minister’s this visit has proved very costly to Gazans who are paying their debt to Mubark’s back door diplomacy….
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Diabolical Indo-Israeli Nexus
Through its words, calm behavior and vigorous action in the wake ofMumbai tragedy of 26th November 2008 at the hands of terrorists, Pakistan has made its intentions known that it means business and that its fight against terrorism is real.The facts on the ground further…
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US and Iran Showdown Disastrous for the World
Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US is already working overtime to neutralize Iran’s nuclear programme with threats or coaxing. Whereas, Israel, all the time, is cajoling US for some tangible action beyond…
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US-Iran Relations Require Re-thinking
Popular perception in the lands of Islam regarding the US stance on Iran’s nuclear programme should be very unpalatable to American policy makers who, in their own right, believe they are trying to make the world safer to live. A dominant majority perceives that America’s…
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Escalating Rhetoric and Actions
It took about six years for Bush administration to come to terms with realitiesin Korean peninsula and start direct negotiations with North Korea that it had been demanding all along. It took a lot of wrangling as well as adamant nuclear explosion by NK to…
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Lebanon’s Darkening Slide
Grappling with presidential vacuum, compounded by national disorientation that is further aggravated by mutual distrust, incrimination and loss of common sense as well as a national sense of urgency, Lebanon is sliding fast into an abyss of unfathomable depth taking with it all good tidings…
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Failure of International Diplomacy
The US has finally succeeded in getting Iran referred to the UNSC for possible sanctions due to unsolved row over its Nuclear Programme, however, it has exposed many a weakness of international diplomacy that has always left much to be desired.The US hegemony in International…
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Correction in US Foreign Policy
There come moments in leaders’ lives when they rise above the bonds of their own selves and prove their mettle by protecting and serving their national interests. History keeps their memories alive and, respecting their strength of character and adulation to human values, makes them…
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Lunacy Unbounded
As if Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq were not enough nemesis for George W Bush challenging his Christian morality, there is yet another talk of strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations. There have already been three civil wars in the region, thanks US involve-ment in cahoots…