Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Bahrain given till June 3 for the final Grand Prix decision (AFP)

PARIS (AFP)-motor racing in the dom body FIA said Tuesday that it would give the organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix until June 3 to show they could stage the event.

"Federation Internationale de l?Automobile (FIA) has granted Bahrain motor Federation and Bahrain International Circuit extension until June 3rd, the date of the FIA World motor Sport Council in Barcelona, "body revealed.

FIA added that "this decision was taken after consultation with the relevant authorities in Bahrain and formula one management, international promoter."

Bahrain, own Federation had chosen not to stage the inaugural event of the season at 13. March at the Sakhir circuit due to political unrest in the Arab State after extensive anti-Government protests.

At the beginning of March, the FIA urged the authorities in Bahrain say of May 1, if they would be able to stage the race this season.

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestones, who had the section object to the idea of race will be held in November, had earlier proposed to give Bahrainis a little more time.

The Kingdom is controlled by the Sunni Al-Khalifa dynasty, but has a Shiite majority and weeks of unrest have seen hundreds of arrests.

Government plans to run four Shiites for alleged murder of two policemen during anti-Government protests in March has also fuelled fears of increased tensions in the Gulf State.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Close attention to Obama last words about Israel (AP)

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama tries to allay some of America's largest supporters of Israel after he joined the Jewish nation 1967 borders as the basis for a Palestinian State and clashed with isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


In a speech Sunday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama was not expected to sketch out another significant U.S. policy shift but probably will focus on the deep U.S.-isrælske alliance.


But almost everyone in the room wanted to see how the Chairman addresses his remarks from Thursday, when he said that a future Palestine should be designed around the border lines that existed before Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and in East Jerusalem, with land swaps to take account of isrælske settlements and other changing conditions.


Obama endorsement moved U.S. position from noting the Palestinian goal of a country based on these terms and leaves the result to be settled through negotiation. By eliminating the hue, he stated, mainly what almost every Observer assumed would be the border lines of a two-State solution with mutually agreed adjustments.


Still, the change prompted bitter criticism from Netanyahu. And in a blunt display of differences between the two leaders disagree openly after a Friday meeting at the White House. Netanyahu called the 1967 demarcation "indefensible" and issued a flat rejection of the idea.


"It will not happen," he said. "Everyone knows that it will not happen."


Netanyahu, who will address the calm lobby Congress on Monday and Tuesday played down the rift.


"The differences have been blown out of proportion," he told The Associated Press on Saturday. "It is true we have some differences, but these are among friends".


Obama was to depart later Sunday for a weeklong European tour seeking tendency to old friends in the Western alliance and ensure their help with the political upheavals throughout the Arab world and the ten-year long conflict in Afghanistan.


Obama will visit Ireland, England, France and Poland.


The trip comes in the midst of the ongoing NATO-led bombing campaign in Libya and a seemingly intractable conflict between Moammar Gadhafi's forces and Libyan rebels. The negotiations will also include economic concerns, as European countries makes sharp cuts in public spending and Obama and Congressional Republicans try to hash out how to cut spending to bring U.S. debt under control.


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Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel contributed to this report.


 

Palestinians seek Arab consultation on Obama speech (Reuters)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)-Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Arab League Saturday to call for a discussion of President Barack Obama's vision of peace with Israel, a Palestinian official said.


The meeting will probably take place monthly at the end, said the official. Abbas has previously consulted with the Arab League on when designing Palestinian strategy vis-à-vis Israel, with which negotiations have been stalled since last year.


(Reporting by Ali Sawafta)


 

Monday, August 29, 2011

Netanyahu to lobby the UK, France over Palestinian State (AFP)

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Isræls Benjamin Netanyahu visits the United Kingdom and France this week, he will point to a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal as part of its fight to stave off UN recognition of a Palestinian State.


Hours before arriving in the United Kingdom, Netanyahu urged Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas "totally cancel the" the agreement, which seeks to end years of bad blood between the secular Fatah movement and its Islamist Hamas rivals.


Agreement signed on Tuesday, will see the two fractions work together to build a transitional Government of independent candidates, while the issue of peace talks in the hands of the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by Abbas.


But Netanyahu will tell its French and British colleagues that Israel cannot negotiate with the agreement in place, pointing in particular at Hamass unreservedly the condemnation of the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US forces on Sunday.


"The agreement between Abu Mazen (Abbas) and Hamas deals a harsh blow for the peace process," said Netanyahu shortly before leaving.


"How can we make peace with the Government, when half of it calls for the destruction of Israel and glorify murderous Osama bin Laden?"


Hamas's reference to bin Laden as "a Holy warrior" on Tuesday triggered a sharp response from London, as well as from the US State Department, which described the Islamists answers as "scandalous."


But in Israel, comments--described by one paper as "inconceivable stupidity" of Hamas--were seen as entirely to play Netanyahu's hands.


"Response of Hamas, who condemned bin Laden? s assassination, Israel forces were only? s position and sends responsibility rolling against Abu Mazen, "a political official told the newspaper, Israel Hayom.


Even as Netanyahu looks set to face a skeptical audience in London and Paris, with President Nicolas Sarkozy gives the clearest indication yet that France recognise an independent Palestinian State if peace talks do not resume soon.


"If the peace process are still died in September, France will live up to its responsibilities on the key issue of recognition of a Palestinian State," he said in an interview with L'Express magazine.


Analysts expect British Prime minister David Cameron, whom Netanyahu meet Wednesday, and Sarkozy, whom he meets on Thursday to listen politely, but reserve the right to immediate assessment.


"There is so much happening in the Middle East truly dramatic Import, the endless dance of isrælerne and the Palestinians are struggling a bit to get the attention it deserves a time perhaps," said Jonathan Spyer, a political analyst at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center.


Netanyahu has said he will outline a new political initiative, when he addresses a joint meeting of the US Congress in may, but so far he has kept his cards close to his chest.


In the meantime, he tries to fend off European support for a Palestinian bid to win UN recognition for a State within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as the capital in a Move expected to take place in September's annual general meeting.


Israel and the United States against such a step to say a Palestinian State can only be achieved through negotiation.


But the United Kingdom and France see things differently, with their UN envoys indicates last month they can back the Palestinian campaign as a way to resume the peace process.


Spyer sees no breakthrough for Netanyahu on this trip, but he believes that this drawing the attention of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority's new relationship with Hamas--which is blacklisted by the European Union as a terrorist organisation--will carry some weight.

"Israel will have a case to say:" as long as these guys are on board what you expect us to do? " That the matter will be challenged, but the case is makeable, ' he says.

But the Jerusalem Post suggested that many Europeans would see unity deal between the rival Palestinian movements as a sign of weakening its position by Hamas.

"Months votes proclaimed ... Hamas can be brought into the pirates by political tent "diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon wrote in the weekend.

"Rather than postponing, like most isrælerne were aware that the Palestinian Authority is on the verge to integrate in its coalition Government an organisation, which calls for Isræls destruction, for many people in Europe want to see this move as an indication, Hamas has been pragmatic and more ' moderate ' as a result of the apparent loss of his patron in Syria."






 

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Turkey's Gul: Hamas must recognise the Isræls right to exist (Reuters)

ISTANBUL (Reuters)-Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has urged the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas to recognise Israel's right to exist, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.


In an interview a day after the United States's President Barack Obama gave a speech on the Middle East, yellow also hailed Obama's reference to the creation of a Palestinian State based on the Isræls the pre-1967 borders as "a very important step."


Turkey has considered Hamas as a key factor in the Middle East peace process, when it won the Palestinian elections in 2006.


Yellow said President Obama "has a point" when he said in his speech that Israel could not be expected to negotiate with a body that does not recognize Israel's right to exist.


Asked if he was willing to press Hamas on this issue, Gul said, "I have already advised them."


In a meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Ray in Ankara in 2006 Yellow said he told Ray, "you must be a rational" about recognise Israel's right to exist.


Gul said he believed Hamas was prepared to recognise Israel in pre-1967 borders, but want to happen at the same time with Isræls recognition of a Palestinian State.


Ankara's ties with former close ally Israel broke over its military operation in the Gaza Strip in 2008 and hostility was fueled by a isrælsk commando raid on the aid flotilla, which killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists in May last year.


Turkey has demanded that Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip and its aggressive stance on the Palestinian issue has created tensions between Ankara and Washington.


The paper said Obama speech was interpreted by Turkish officials as a significant if nuanced change.


Yellow also welcome Obama promise on debt relief and aid to Egypt and Tunisia as they struggle in the wake of popular revolutions. But he said much larger scale "Marshall Plan" for the Middle East was necessary.


Such a fund should be run by the World Bank and drawing on contributions from countries in the region, as well as from traditional donors in the West, say yellow.


(Writing by Daren Butler)


 

Isrælske reprimand of Obama Viewer gap in the Middle East (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly told President Barack Obama Friday his vision for how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep rift could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.


In an unusually strong rebuke to Isræls closest allies insisted Netanyahu Israel would never pull back to the 1967 borders--which would mean major concessions occupied land--that Obama had said should serve as a basis for negotiations on the establishment of a Palestinian State.


"Peace based on illusions will down to the end of the Cretaceous rocks of the Middle East reality," said a round of Netanyahu as Obama listened carefully beside him in the Oval Office after they met for talks.


Netanyahu insisted that Israel was willing to make compromises for peace, but made clear he had major differences with Washington over how to move long-stand in the peace process.


Netanyahu's opposition raises the question of how difficult Obama will press for concessions he is unlikely to get, and whether the vision U.S. leader established on Thursday to resolve the conflict in decades old will ever get off the ground.


Despite assurances of friendship, both leaders appeared this week's events also to herald tense months ahead for U.S.-isrælske relations, even as the Arab world must pass through the Centre of the political tumult and Palestinians prepare a unilateral bid this fall's General Assembly to seek recognition for the State.


For journalists after the meeting, Obama said he reiterated to Netanyahu peace "principles" he offered on Thursday in a policy speech on the Middle East upheaval.


Goal, he said, "must be a secure isrælske State, a Jewish State living side by side in peace and security with a coherent, efficient and effective Palestinian State.


Obama on Thursday embraced a long-sought goal of the Palestinians: the State they seek in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip should largely be drawn along the lines that existed before the 1967 war, Israel captured these areas and East Jerusalem.


Netanyahu, who heads the right-leaning Coalition, reacted with what amounted to a history lecture on vulnerability to attack Israel faced with the old borders. "We cannot go back to these irresponsible lines," he said.


Picking a fight with Israel could be politically risky for Obama at home as he seeks re-election in 2012.


CRISIS IN THE RELATIONSHIP


Brewing crisis in U.S.-isrælske relationships dimmed even further prospects for resuming peace talks that collapsed late last year when the Palestinians walked away in a dispute over the isrælske settlements building in the West Bank.


Obama and Netanyahu, meanwhile, appears to have reached a stalemate after two and a half years of rocky relations. Obama White House was enraged when Netanyahu refused a U.S. demand to stop building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.


Some isrælerne have never felt very comfortable with Obama, unnerved by his early attempts to reach out to Iran and his support for the popular Arab revolutions which has alarmed Israel.


In a pointed comment clearly aimed at Obama new approach to the long-standing conflict, Netanyahu said: "the only peace that will endure is, is based on the reality on the Kindle facts".


Netanyahu, isrælske officials said, was determined to push back hard because the reference to the 1967 borders was a red flag that will attract more international pressure on Israel for concessions. A senior isrælske official said Netanyahu felt he had to speak bluntly that he would be "heard around the world."


"There is a feeling of Washington does not understand the reality does not understand what we are facing," official on board the aircraft under Netanyahu to Washington, told journalists.

Nevertheless, Obama first statement of his position on the contested issue of boundaries helps ease doubts in the Arab world about his obligation to act as an impartial broker and increase its outreach to the region. Another unsuccessful peace efforts, however, could fuel further frustration.

In line with Netanyahu's position reflected Obama opposition to the Palestinian plan to search's recognition of the State in September, in the absence of renewed peace talks.

The Democratic President is quickly come under fire from Republican critics who accuse him of betraying Israel, the closest U.S. allies in the region. Pushing Netanyahu could offend the U.S. supporters of Israel, as Obama seeks re-election.

Obama can get a chilly reception in a speech to an influential quietly lobbying group on Sunday. Netanyahu is expected to be celebrated when he deals with the same audience on Monday and then Congress Tuesday.

POINTERS TO COMPROMISE

Obama, in his speech on Thursday, laid down its clearest markers yet on the compromises he believes that Israel and the Palestinians must do in order to resolve a conflict that has long been seen as a source of Middle East tensions.

But he is not a formal U.S. peace plan or timetable for an agreement he once promised to clinch in September.

In Thursday's speech, Obama said: "we believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" soil. While this has long been the private view in Washington, Obama went further than U.S. officials have in recent times.

Agreed swaps would allow Israel to keep the settlements in the West Bank in exchange for giving the Palestinians other than agricultural land.

Go in the negotiations, Netanyahu said, he wanted to hear Obama reaffirms commitments to Israel in 2004 by then-President George w. Bush suggests that it can keep some large settlement blocks as a part of any peace Pact.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday that Obama had said something that "contrary to these letters."

Obama on Thursday also delivered a message to the Palestinians, they should answer "some very difficult questions" about a lot of reconciliation with Hamas, Islamic groups to run Gaza and the United States, regard as terrorist groups.

(Additional reporting by Alister Bull, Patricia Zengerle, Jeff Mason, Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Ori Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Paul Simao)















 

Saturday, August 27, 2011

US will help seal the Israel-Palestinian peace: Jordan (AFP)

AMMAN (AFP)-peace between Israel and the Palestinians will be sealed with U.S. help, Jordan's King Abdullah II said Saturday as he urged American businessmen to invest in his country.


"Jordan's commitment to the future is secure. It has driven our long work for regional peace. .. and with the help of the United States, succeed in peace, "said the Jordanian monarch, who held talks this week in Washington with us officials.


Abdullah II do not give any reasons for his optimism.


His remarks come a day after the isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told us President Barack Obama in the Oval Office against chasing what he called a Middle East peace "based on illusions.


Netanyahu promised explicitly Israel would never return to the 1967 borders and laid down a number of non-negotiable conditions for peace talks--one day after Obama urged Israel to accept a return to territorial lines in place before the 1967 Arab-isrælske war, with the mutual land swaps with the Palestinians to frame a secure peace.


The Jordanian monarch invited in the meantime, U.S. businesses to invest in his country.


"Our same faith in the future is driving our determination to open the doors to enterprise and opportunity," he said.


' But we can't do it alone. We need partners to build prosperity that lasts--in my country and in my region, "he said stressing the region offered 350 million consumers and enormous potential.


 

Friday, August 26, 2011

Isrælske gunfire kills Gaza teen: doctors (AFP)

GAZA city, Palestinian territories (AFP) – isrælske troops shot dead Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, when he approached the border fence with Israel, Palestinian doctors said.

17-year-old boy's body was found near El-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, they said.

A isrælske army spokesman said earlier that the soldiers had opened fire and hit a suspected near the border.

On Friday, were two young Gazans wounded as isrælske troops opened fire on a protest near the border fence.

In the West Bank, meanwhile, masked gunmen shot dead a Palestinian suspected of "collaboration" with Israel, Palestinian security sources and bebøre in Beit Dajan village near Nablus said.

The man had recently been released from prison in the West Bank isrælsk-occupied after serving time on levy of Israel with fitted with information.

The isrælske army and Shin Beth internal security services dependent often Palestinian informants to gather information about the wanted militant.


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Middle Easts Customer Service relationship questions!


Any society or the person working in the region of the Middle East migratoires will tell you, the customer service can be extremely frustrating, or sometimes even none exist. However as the region knows an explosion in growth and DFI of foreign investment Direct, the Government as well as companies are realizing more and more importance to improve its standards of customer relationship.
Market liberalization and competition, coupled with the increase in the population around the region, factors mean that the concept of customer service and services are subject to increased control.

In its deliberation on the services, Middle East may look at an analysis of European market for some compelling trends.

The independent investigation by Association for Service Management International (FITA), a not-for-profit, the educational association for driving technology services industry professionals represents the first in-depth technical study European and the technology services industry or the S-Business.

The term's-Business' fact reference to organizations that are focused on services, measured services and indeed services, regardless of whether if they also manufacture and sell products.

The survey is based on interviews with influential executives of the service across Europe, of which 70% have detailed the power of decision on the total service business strategy or make a significant contribution to strategic issues and decisions. Four areas critical to the success of service have been studied: strategy, financial, customer-centricity and the efficiency and effectiveness.

The research revealed that more than 70% of European companies questioned are unable to determine customer revenue and profitability in real time. Accordingly, there is little recognition in these societies of the value that each client represents for their business and therefore how commercial service answers should better be directed.

Most companies always meet customer who shouts, regardless of their value. The inability to identify the really valuable client can seriously impair all businesses. Companies could lose some quiet but highly profitable customers who walk farther in silence and disgust.

To remedy this problem, companies need to obtain information of a business in real time through better integration. However, fita researchers have discovered that two thirds of businesses are faced with this "because most of the systems of society were not designed for integration and certainly were rarely designed to take account of the intense information nature of a system of utility".

Half (45%) surveyed companies still view the use of customer information or the performance of the product as poor, suggesting the inadequacy of the systems or processes, or both. However, the information to provide business intelligence architecture is already here.

Most often, organizations already have the necessary information on their customers, but do not have appropriate systems and processes in place to use the available data.

Business intelligence tools cover the quality of the data, access to information and data analysis. Deployed properly, business intelligence enables companies to better understand accurate and timely internal operations to the company, customers and suppliers. Ultimately this should lead to greater profitability of business and return on investment (ROI).

What is disturbing, half the companies interviewed yet defined their culture as led product, despite professing the significance of their utility.

Researchers have found that only 30% of the analyzed companies are customer-centric and even less, 18 per cent, are driven by the service. Yet according to fita, service now presents the primary opportunity for many companies to develop and maintain closer relations with their customers.

It is clear that a client-centred approach is more ambitious desire than a reality of the business. The absence of an approach focused on business customers may be due in part to the fact that executives of the service appear to have a poor understanding of the value of CRM as their colleagues in sales.

The study found that only 24% of service organizations view CRM as a significant development of the business driver, while the leaders of sales are the main engine (50%) of the CRM activities. Accordingly, we find that CRM projects do are often not implemented in all activities.

According to the research of the fita, while enterprises increasingly recognize the importance of the service department and its relations with the customer, many companies do not have a true service culture and their staff do not have the necessary management skills.

Senior struggles to recognize and understand the full value of service and how to transform the strategic policies into operational reality.The evidence shows that, in the implementation correctly, CRM can be extremely beneficial.

A number of organizations in the Middle East, from banks to providers of telecommunications services to the automotive service centres is to be examined or have implemented CRM strategies, which reflects the new regional focus on the service.

The survey revealed that customer-centricity in many leading organizations came when service-centricity was supported by the process and the Enterprise CRM systems.

As evidenced by this research, with the right information, at its disposal Middle Eastservice emerging industry can handle customers in a more thoughtful, less haphazard manner. In doing so, it can maintain its customer relationships, stay true to the brand and see a healthy rise in income.








Faysal Hammude is a North American Business Executive and based in the Middle East Africa region. With more than 17 years of senior level experience in a multitude of industries with a good understanding of field local business and working in an environment of matrix in Asia, Middle East and Latin America. A regular contributor to industry & keynote speaker on strategies for management of sales & Marketing and development of business and a respected thought leader who is currently based in Dubai United Arab Emirates United.


Thursday, August 25, 2011

Middle East backpacking


Middle East may not be first place travellers or backpackers taken into account in deciding on their next trip, but the region is full of places to visit. Obtaining a visa is usually an easy process for those from most Western countries. Advance planning for your visa might be unnecessary, as you can get it as soon as you arrive at the airport in Turkey.

Istanbul is the most famous city of the Turkey, and it is not surprising since it is teeming with history, culture and food. The city has an extensive public transportation and taxi, and reliable services making it easy for travellers to get there and move. There is plenty of shopping to do in Grand Bazaar, and according to the how much you want to explore, you could make several trips back. It is the oldest market covered in the world and massive in proportion. The Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sofia (Ayasofya) mosque are unavoidable when you visit in Istanbul. The Hagia Sofia mosque was a church in the Byzantine domination and was later converted into a mosque when the Ottoman Empire conquered the city. Researchers continue to discover paintings and relics from the old church hidden under the walls of the mosque. As with any other large city, Istanbul can be expensive for tourists. Backpackers on a budget have many other options and towns go elsewhere in Turkey.

Van is located in the eastern part of the country on the eastern shore of the Lake of Van. One of the most popular destinations in Van is Akdamar Island, one of the four islands located in the Lake of Van. The island has Akdamar Church, a historic Armenian Church.

If Van seems to be too far East for you, Ankara and Cappadocia are located in the central part of the country and have much to offer travellers. Ankara is the capital of the Turkey and often neglected to Istanbul. Ankara is not generally considered a tourist town, as it has two main sites (Anitkabir and Atakule). You can interact with and feel more, like a local in Ankara, as you would on the animated Istanbul streets.

Located approximately 3.5 hours of Ankara, Cappadocia is a popular tourist destination and UNESCO World Heritage. Cappadocia consists of formations formed entirely by the natural erosion of the water and volcanic lava, and evidence of underground entire cities and houses built in the rocks dating back centuries. There are several hotels located ideally in the homes of rock of Cappadocia, and they offer relatively good accommodation markets outside the month tourist peak.

People can pass also walking the Middle East, but the Turkey and other places of the region have an affordable price and rich stories and cultures to offer travellers. The Turkey is inviting for tourists, it is relatively easy to go hassle and travelling throughout the country is also easy to manage. It is where East meets West, so Turkey is practical to add to your route travel you in Europe or passing over Asia and Africa.








Anil Polat is full-time traveler currently in the writing of his experiences in the Middle East hiking Guide.


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Luxury cruises River in Egypt and in the Middle East


The majestic Nile, considered by many as the cornerstone of the Egypt and Middle East, offering the ultimate in luxury cruise River. Temples, Sacred Valley and the amphitheatres are abundant on a cruise between riverside destinations. Few places on Earth continues to Captivate a century to another.

Luxury River all cruises in this characteristic of the region in Cairo as a top tourist destination of the page. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and translated accurately to "the triumphant."

Cairo is located on the banks and Islands in the Nile River in the North of the Egypt.

Cairo is a fascinating juxtaposition of old and modern architecture, citing these monuments such as the pyramids, the hanging, the Sphinx and Heliopolis as his own church. The oldest part of the city is East of the River.

The Egyptian pyramids are essential display when in Cairo. There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt. The best-known pyramids Egyptian are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. The pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest pyramid and the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world still in existence.

No luxury cruise is complete without a visit to the town of Edfu - located on the West Bank of the Nile. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and a former colony, Tell Edfu. The temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus is the best preserved.

Esna is a city which is located on the West Bank of the Nile, 55 km south of Luxor. This city was built in the ancient region of Esna, and is the site of an important temple dedicated to the God Khnum. Ancient texts mention that it was built on the site of a temple that may have been built at the beginning of the reign of Thutmose III.

Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in ancient times, was the border town of the ancient Egypt. It is located on the shore is Nile, and is a market occupied and tourist centre and one of the places inhabited more dry in the world. The ancient Egypt stone quarries were located in Aswan, because of its abundance of syenite, granitic rock.

One of the highlights of an Egyptian cruise is a stop at Luxor. Translate to "the Palace", Luxor is houses the largest collection of ancient monuments in the world. The magnificent temples of Karnak in the Valley of the Kings, on the shore West, Luxor is the jewel of all travel.

One of the first cases in the city must be the Temple of Luxor - built by Amenhotep III.

The Luxor Temple is a large former complex Egyptian temple located on the shore East of the Nile. The temple begins with the 24 metres high first pylon, built by Ramses II. The main entrance of the temple was originally flanked six colossal statues of Ramses - four permanent and two seated – but only two survived.

Just outside Luxor is another spectacular destination for tourism. The Valley of the Kings is a valley where, for a period of nearly 500 years, the tombs were constructed for the Kings and the nobles of the new empire. The Valley is located on the West Bank of the Nile, in the heart of the necropolis. The region was the subject of an archaeological exploration concentrated since the 18th century. In 1979, he became a World Heritage Site.

Outside of the Egypt, you can also explore Dubai by water. Dubai is a modern metropolis located on the coast of the Persian Gulf Emirates Arab. Dubai Creek is a large body of water (suitable for large ships to enter) running northeast-southwest through the city, for an ideal destination for cruises.

A Dubai River cruise offers superb views of the city. Tour of Dubai and the Persian Gulf and witness the beauty of Dubai in all its current and former glory. Include points of interest along the way: the National Bank of Dubai, the Heritage Village and Sheikh Saeed House.

Dubai is known internationally as a destination of Prime Minister. Dubai offers an infinite range of a unique opportunity for things to see and do. Highlights: desert safaris, dune driving; sand skiing; clear of moon Desert barbecues of Arabia, camel races, races of horses, falconry and explore the old markets of the city.

Possibilities for excursions include: traditional architecture. ancient mosques, magnificent palaces, dusty villages Bedouins, lush oases and beautiful sunsets.








Karen Cooke is a professional consultant with Travel Associates, a travel agency Australian exclusive the high-end market of travel. Suggestions and most useful travel advice are available at http://www.travel-associates.com.au


Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Middle East is shaken not stirred - but the audience in suspense waiting


Beginning of 2011, we watched demonstrators, rioters and demonstrations in any Middle East. The demonstrators were taken by the Government of the Tunisia, Egypt, and on 20 February has been riots in protest at Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Algeria and even unrest in Saudi Arabia. In fact, he had also spread to even another continent - South America where there were riots and demonstrations in the Venezuela and Bolivia.

Indeed, there was a very revealing article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, front page actually entitled "autumn Mubarak Shakes Middle East - army takes control as President yields Furious protests;" Region Astir as second Arab Leader is overthrown in two months "by Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker and Matt Bradley in Cairo and Adam Entous Washington has published on February 12, 2011."

The title suggests that there is more to follow, or other Arab nations will have to get behind freedom, democracy, freedom, and their people-like quick access. It would be I agree this assessment, although you should read the article to get an idea of their insider views on things. In fact, on February 22, 2011, the Arab League of Nations called an emergency summit. The Organization of the United Nations has also called an emergency summit.

And you can bet the Ministry of defence of the United States of America, the most powerful nation ever created in the history of humanity, is also on high alert. And on February 22, 2011, we learned that Qathafi of Libya had ordered his Air Force fire to protest against the Libyan. If you ask any citizen of the United States, they would probably say that the United States Air Force must shoot down the aircraft fired on their civilians. It is difficult to say what will be the United States, but something must be done.

Only question now is, will fall more how many Arab countries and how this will affect their economies, unemployment, inflation and food shortages in the future. And how this will affect the rest of the world, as Arab nations stop their shipments of oil supply, or the workers in these countries to implement strike, slowing the flow of oil? February 21, 2011 oil shot up to $105 a barrel. There is much tension in the world, and things do not seem to be facilitated.

Some suggest that there are many spy games going on behind the scenes, and they use the demonstrators their own success. Yes, Middle East is shaken, not stirred. Indeed, I hope that you will please consider all of this.








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Monday, August 22, 2011

Smart travel in the Middle East


Tourism in the Middle East developed rapidly. Its deeply routed successive civilizations have left their footprint of this region of the world of the major tourist destinations. Middle East remains an economic destination with the incredible diversity of activity.

Travel smart and hassle from all these seven basic steps:

1 Make sure that your Visa and travel documents are in order before the arrival. In particular, make sure that your Passport has been in a period of grace of six months before expiry. It is your safety net.

2 Obtain adequate insurance for the flexibility of flight. As distances in arid zones are significant, you can be blocked or, better still, you can just see Petra in Jordan for a full day! Some of the best destinations require an extra day and you can cost a day to arrive at the airport.

3 Stock of drugs against the diarrhea and vomiting. It is both more common tourist symptom and with this handy will you save a full day costs and distress to communicate outside your personal and cultural borders on embarrassing questions!

4 Adhere to the dress code. You will thus earn respect for local populations who are often happier to help and provide assistance. Triple your chances of getting assistance in accordance with this fundamental rule.

5 Inventory cards updated, especially if you are driving. Maps for driving over long distances must usually be ordered in advance via the internet. Do not let you take the risk of being blocked, regardless of how friendly local people. They tend to travel less than Westerners, even within their own territory.

6. When you choose a place to eat, it is sufficient to consider restaurant facilities where an abundance of the locals eat and drink. It is a proven way to get a meal for a fair price. Look what others are paying and don't hesitate to politely point out a possible price difference.

7. Last but not least, ask permission for photos, including local chapters, vehicles and identifiable landmarks. I strongly advise against the publication of photos of people and especially the border patrol on the internet, unless you have permission. For many, it can be offensive.

Get that "aha" experience in dealing with yourself and many locals. You will be surprised by the speed with which you can create a network of friends to last for decades! Enjoy and let enjoy!








Lydia Evdoxiadi Verniory is a Consultant of the cultural heritage. It advises States on the promotion of their national cultural heritage through the development of local tourism. She specializes in the Middle East and works to bring closer the East and West.


Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Middle East will implode with revolutions of regime change in the region?


The Iranian Government is strong and can easily end the revolt if and when they choose too. Yes, there were probably fraudulent activities in Iran during this last election, and in particular in Iran is common. In the previous election, microwave regimes used to disrupt the satellite that TV signals days before the election prevented the something other than the standard Government propaganda.

This is just how they do things so, no, it is not good, but it is as usual and highly predictable business. Indeed, maybe people are just tired of this nonsense. And the Iran is almost the only nation in the Middle East , or to do. I am certainly not tolerate these games that is played with the political process, because it undermines confidence and cheats out of people to say, their voice and the feeling that their voices are heard.

Most analysts doubt much the Iranian Government will fall, but if you've looked at the nearby nations and throughout the region does not say much about it, never ask why? First of all, no one wants to make waves, but second, no nation in the Middle East is without their own group of people who may raise at any time.

If the Iranian Government has a major overhaul during these demonstrations, or god forbid has fallen, it will give confidence to others, in nations nearby for also of March and to support their Governments, many of which are perched precarious and could not almost also meet such resistance or opposition of the masses. Pakistan comes to mind, but that on Saudi Arabia, the Lebanon, the Syria and others? If we are going, say that the Iran, others may soon follow, so think about that, there is a lot at stake here.








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The Middle East erupts again

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Conflict is as old as human history, and the conflict in the middle east is as bitter as any we've know. Few nations have ever been willing to give humanitarian aid to an adversary bent on their destruction, and history gives us few examples of real enemies actually settling their disputes peacefully. It is distressing, but not surprising, to see a renewal of violence in the middle east. As usual, the Israelis find themselves confronted with attacks on its citizens from neighbors bent on their destruction. As usual, their reaction has been to respond in kind. Yet this response has not brought peace in the past, and is just as unlikely to do so now.

Sherman's march through Georgia provides one parcel accepted solution: crush your enemy without mercy, and then try to make something bloom from the ashes. Rome did that as well, and was able to govern more or less successfully for hundreds of years. But this kind of attitude rarely produces the generosity of spirit needed to heal wounds and let everyone simply move on. After Lincoln's assassination, Sherman's swath of destruction through the south was followed by a punitive reconstruction-and over the next thirty years the scorched-earth tactic was adopted to crush the native Indian tribes into submission. In both instances, the brutality of war was followed by an almost-equally brutal peace. In one way or another, we're still living with the aftermath.

On the other hand, to find an example of enlightened self-interest in the aftermath of a crushing military victory, we need only look to our own recent history, and what the America did after crushing Germany and Japan in World War II. Both defeated enemies had brutal regimes that had inflicted atrocities on countless innocent... and yet-having learned the lessons of Versailles after World War I-rather than leaving them defeated, impoverished, and bitter, we helped them rebuild. W e even offered to do the same to an adversary that really was bent on our destruction-the Soviet Union, a country led by a ruler unfortunately more interested in preserving his own power than helping his people. And so our offer was spurned, setting the stage for a forty-year long Cold War - a war between two bitter enemies that somehow managed to avoid triggering World War III.

Actually, the notion of pushing an enemy into "unconditional surrender", history suggest that this may be a fairly recent fad. Laying aside the wars of conquest or plunder, or wars of extermination intended to wipe an enemy out of existence, many past wars ended by truce or a negotiated surrender. Our revolution ended with a negotiated peace, and so did the First World War. In fact, the only reason we insisted on pushing the Nazis and Imperial Japan to total defeat was (a) they were evil and needed to be expirpated from the world, and (b) Hitler came to power partly by insisting that the German victory was betrayed by the Oxford in Versailles... and we didn't want to leave a future Hitler with any such illusions. And our own victory in the Cold War was achieved without firing a shot. Though we fought skirmishes against Soviet surrogates in Korea and Viet Nam, in the end our people defeated their people peacefully, through the economic might of a superior economic system. Wisely, we refrained from gloating and imposed no. further humiliation, and while our future is uncertain - as the future is wont to be - we managed to avoid a final military conflict between the two superpowers that would have destroyed everything both countries hoped for their people.

The Israeli-Palestinian situation is infinitely complex, but like the Cold War the solution will never come by viewing it entirely in military terms. In some ways, it's akin to the South in the hey - day of the Klan: decent people in the South were often individually on decent terms with blacks they knew, but the hate-mongers were outspoken and sufficiently violent to keep the decent people in check-and the result was years of oppression and violence that didn't end until (a) the rest of the country became willing to intervene, and did so in such a way that (b) the decent people in the South were unafraid to help put their own house in order. If the Federal Government had imposed the same kind of brutal sanctions that came in the wake of the Civil War, the result may well have been the same: instead of separating out the hate-mongers from the decent folk, such actions would have driven them together for their own self-preservation. The result would not have been not in the strides we've made in the area of civil rights since then, but a perpetuation of the racial hatred and violence.

The problems in the middle east won't be solved overnight-but then, we still have a long way to go in this country toward healing the wounds caused by slavery. For Israel, the solution won't come by lumping the Palestinians together in an effort to crush them once and for all. Unless it ends in a Palestinian extermination, doing so would only perpetuate the cycle of hate. The better course would be a clear attempt to separate the decent people there from the hate-mongers and murderers... and a clear signal to them that they are not the targets. This signal won't be received by a child whose loving mother is killed by a rocket, or a father whose son is blown apart in an explosion-no matter which side the bombs or rockets come from. And this is the source of Israel's existential dilemma.

Acting with wisdom and restraint is very hard to do when an enemy is hiding among the civilians and attacking those you love. The instinct to lash out against an attacker is only natural, and a very human thing to do. But there are other ways to eliminate an enemy besides killing him. Lincoln once asked, "Am I not destroying my enemies by making friends of them?" Goal Israel can't do that if their attacks drive potential friends into the arms of their enemies.

It's obvious that nobody knows the answer. If anybody did, we wouldn't can't have the problems we have today. But Israel's intractable problem is that they really are fighting against extreme and hateful elements that exist among the people living next to them. As the enemy is the hate that in the hearts of some of their neighbors, they can't really win their battle militarily, in any conventional sense. Instead, they must either exterminate their enemies, or make friends with them. And they're far too civilized to kill everyone who stands in their way.








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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Understanding the Middle East and your business will thrive


Stereotyping Middle East at your own risk. Not because of the danger, but because Middle East is full of potential which is not completely realized.

The region is full of rich oil barons and senseless fanatics? Safe. Texas is therefore every Cowboys game.

The region is full of tyrants and the poor and the oppressed face? Safe. So in South America.

I recommend a look nine on the cradle of civilization. I recommend you take a look to invest in the Gaza Strip and industry construction companies and Afghan was. Why?

Two very simple and obvious reasons. First...

Ofmoney. Of BESTWAYTOINVEST "" Middle East is memorable political change and for the most part, its economic future will be little plu a guesstimate - but for a few good informed, risk-lusting, it will be the opportunity of his life. ""

The West in General and the United States in particular is rolling the dice on the region. Trillions of dollars spent and thousands of soldiers have died and thousands of people who perished. You don't agree with the fighting to see that Afghanistan and Iraq are now nations eager for growth.

Of the United States today, "us and Iraqi officials say risk of American companies lose quick to establish strategic links in the long term with the Iraq.".

Millionaires are popping up in Iraq do not suck off the Baathist regime. Car, cell phone dealers dealers and, Yes, internet marketing experts. Real estate investment is growing exponentially. Why not you?

Why invest in Afghanistan? I'll give you 3 reasons...

The Afghanistan is a market of strategic importance, rapid growth close to some of the strongest and largest markets in the emerging world growth
Afghanistan offers an environment minded pro-business legislation favourable to private investment
The Afghanistan is rich in natural resources

There are 50 State enterprises ready for privatization. Why not you?

Why invest in the Gaza Strip? This leads to my second reason to revisit Middle East investment...

We cannot simply wait. People hungry, angry, say-enfranchised are easily manipulated. Allow Gazans to know that the West is interested in their security and their security will do wonders for the overall security situation in the region. Gazans should be aware that security comes from working with their neighbors to help them in turn.

Peace comes not always of barrel of a gun or an explosive car packed in a crowd. Peace comes generally when people are healthy, happily employed and know that their children have the potential for a better life then their own lives. No hope, no peace. Take America. Americans are feeling desperate right now, and the current administration may suffer big losses in the next elections cause of it.

Blow of eye autour. Hope is everywhere. The woman disfigured on the cover of time is to get a new nose. Afghanistan women receive an education in record numbers and will bring new opportunities. Persons are East of the community as a partner.

In America people take their future into their hands. Americans are from their own businesses and taking opportunities to develop the future under their control. Why not you?








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Friday, August 19, 2011

Children of Heaven

Children of HeavenMajid Majidi celebrates the immediacy and essence of childhood in this delightful tale of a brother and sister who share a pair of shoes when the boy (though no fault of his own) loses his sister's only pair. Since their parents are too poor to afford a new pair, they keep it a secret, trading them off every day in a mad rush, jumping gutters and navigating the twisting lanes to their schools and back. Then the boy hatches a plan: the third-place prize in a student footrace is a new pair of shoes, and he's determined to take it. The plot may smack of a Disney film, but the direction couldn't be more different. The family scenes are delicately observed, and Majidi captures the spirit of the children perfectly: proud, emotional, petulant, sweet, and disarmingly sincere. The film has a Western-friendly framework without losing the naturalistic eye and lolling rhythm that gives the best Iranian films their richness. Even as he builds to the climactic footrace (quite unexpectedly turned into a nail-biting contest) the film continues to reveal a wealth of discreet surprises, culminating in a conclusion all the more resonant for its sublime delicacy. His efforts earned the film the honor of becoming the first Iranian feature to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. --Sean Axmaker

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Not Without My Daughter

Not Without My DaughterThe Arab anti-defamation leagues understandably had a field day with this one. Sally Field plays Betty Mahmoody, an American who marries an Iranian (Alfred Molina) and has a child. They go back to Iran for a visit and, to her horror, he tells her he's decided to stay there. If she wants to leave, she must leave her daughter behind. If she stays, Betty must live in a culture vastly different and, she believes, very dangerous. Part thriller, part culture clash, the film certainly takes advantage of Americans' perceptions of Iran after the unrest of the '70s and early '80s. Molina is truly despicable as the husband, while Field projects a lot of overheated anguish as Betty tries to figure out a way to escape the country with her daughter. Overheated, in fact, is the word for the whole melodrama. --Marshall Fine

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Libyan rebels ' seizure of a border inspection post ',

21 April 2011, last updated at 15: 53 A rebel fires from a rooftop in Misrata, Libya (21 April 2011) Street-you will not fight has been raging between rebels and soldiers besieged the rebels have overrun Misrata in Libya the Tunisian frontier post against Government forces in advance of rare earth in the West, reports say.

Wazin the crossing of the reported abduction follows a tough fight.


The rebels control much of eastern Libya. Fighting also continued in the Western City of Misrata besieged.


United States has said it will begin to use the Predator new xeno Libya Muammar al-Gaddafi in the fight against the troops of the Col.


Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the unmanned aircraft use was approved by President Barack Obama and "the modest share of the" Libyan international efforts.


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the Government's "vicious attacks" on civilians and said he is disturbed by cluster bombs at civilians reported by troops of the Al-Gaddafi.


The BBC has seen evidence that al-Gaddafi suggests the use of arms, the Col which kill and maim indiscriminately over a large area.


Rebels claim that the debris was found in Misrata bombs but the Libyan Government has denied the charge.


The BBC's Orla Guerin Misrata says, he has seen the bombs themselves.


The doctors told us the contact person of the bombs were still with the horrific injuries lead to innocent civilians, the limbs to lose.


UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the Libyan authorities "to put an end to the people and end the killing."


Speaking during a visit to Moscow, he said, the UN, in order to achieve the priority was to "verifiable and effective-a ceasefire", in order to ensure that humanitarian assistance and political dialogue.


' Defections '


Wazin border post is the link to the city of Nalut, Libya and Tunisia, the main road Dehiba.

Reports say the rebels seized the post on Thursday, more than 100 pro Gaddafin soldiers, fled to Tunisia.

Tunisia's State-Run TAP news agency said, the whole Brigade had defected, including a hall monitor and two of the major currencies.


Libya suppliers in remote areas, restrictions on the means, it is difficult to verify independently any such reports.


"We see the rebels, who control the border crossing, "one witness told the Reuters news agency Dehiba by telephone.


Rebel leader Abu Sitta Shaban told the Associated Press the crossing had been intense of battles with government troops outside the three days of Nalut.


Little information has emerged so far, the West mountainous parts of Libya to combat area is the home of the Berber tribes, who have long opposed the Col al-Gaddafi.


A border inspection post reported the capture could open a new supply route to rebel fighters. "


But the doctor with Tunisia's Red Crescent, said the officials had worried it could also lead to a new wave of refugees into the community from Tunisia.


Tens of thousands of people fled the fighting in the early stages of Tunisia, to create a humanitarian crisis at the border.

Exhausted doctors

Thursday morning saw also continue fighting Misrata. At least three people were reported to have been killed.


Medical sources told the BBC, they believe more than a thousand have been killed there for an indefinite period of time.


Two journalists died Wednesday, mortar attack on the City-Tim Hetherington, British-American filmmaker and photographer Chris Hondros, American.


Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, said he was "very sad" about them, but always with the accidents of war.


Ukraine is also a medical doctor, died of a heart attack in Misrata, artillery blast Wednesday. The doctor's wife has been injured seriously were informed of the incident.


Doctors Hospital in Misrata, told the BBC, they received more than 100 accidents Wednesday, most of them civilians. The hospital, said five civilians were killed.


One doctor said he and his colleagues had been exhausted, and asked the international community, which was.


The international transfer of said Professional 1,000 farm: farm containing multiple injured migrant workers and the Libyans and the bodies of two of the journalists were due to arrive at the Benghazi-Thursday evening.

Evacuees being taken by ship to Benghazi, Libya (21 April 2011)Misrata is taken on board, the Association of hundreds of rebel-held Benghazi

Inspired by the uprisings, the neighbouring countries of Tunisia and Egypt, Libya and the rebels have fought to Col al-Gaddafi forces after February.


Rebels hold the Benghazi, which is based on the East, much of the Al-Gaddafi, Tripoli and the Col, remains the largest part of the West in the control.


On Wednesday, it rejected the offer of the Government of the latest ceasefire on Wednesday.


The rebels of the National Transitional Council, Abdul Hafeez Ghoga, spokesman said Al-Gaddafi wanted to, Col a ceasefire, because his forces were destroyed by the NATO air strikes.


But Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told the BBC on Thursday that NATO should trust its opinions and challenging them to set up a ceasefire date.


The Foreign Ministry has warned, to have "effects", France, Italy and the UK, which they send military advisers to Benghazi.


In the meantime, Libya as a State TV reported that Nato forces have captured Libyan oil tanker, it describes the "anti-piracy function barbaarisen".


Nato is enforcing the naval blockade as part of the international effort to bring about Libya, preventing arms and mercenaries in the country.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Syrian opposition figure "holding"

20 April 2011, last updated 11: 42 Protesters in Baniyas, Syria, 19 April 2011 -YOU have had continuous protests despite Government concessions, promised to the Syrian authorities have arrested prominent opposition figure, human rights activists say.

The security services took Mahmud Issa reportedly home, shortly after he gave an interview with al-Jazeera TV.


President Bashar al-Assad, meanwhile, was expected to lift the emergency measures which have been in place for almost half a century.


Authorities released Sheikh Zayed Road, where several people have died in the security crackdown in the Security Chief.


The official, Abbas was Amjad spotted on video violence, activists said.


The move follows the Deraa and Homs, which have seen large demonstrations in the earlier dismissal of the Directors-General.


Several thousands of students out on Wednesday for fresh protests in Deraa Associated Press news agency reported, even if the student protests in the northern city of Aleppo also indicated.

Confusing signals

Mr. Issa, Professor of English and known left wing activist has previously used a total of 11 years in prison in Syria.

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The Syrian emergency law, which will continue in full force and effect for an indefinite period of time in most of the protections of the Constitution, was the place, because of the Ba'th Party came to power in an army coup.


The Syrian Government to justify the introduction of legislation in the past, a war that still exists in the State of Israel and the militant groups pose threats.


The Syrian Prime Minister of emergency situations, justice and the Minister of the Interior of the country designated as Deputy Governor of the laws of the State of war, and gave them additional powers.


These include the possibility to impose restrictions on the freedoms of meetings, travel and residence permits, in certain places or, in particular, the journey times; -the preventive arrest warrant anyone suspected to be a threat to public safety and order; allow the persons and places; research, and assign the person to perform these tasks.


The Syrian human rights Committee described emergency legislation "[for] the most repressive measures by law for the protection of the rights and liberties of the Syrian citizens without exception." It is likely that led directly to the thousands of violations of human rights.

He requested that his al-Jazeera interview with brigadier general, who was reportedly killed during the protests on Sunday, several Homs family death investigation.

The Government has claimed that they were shot dead by "armed gangs", which they struggle with the recent unrest.


The Government adopted on Tuesday, Syria to the lifting of emergency laws, while at the same time, also in the legislation, which obliges people to get permission before they engage in protests.


The Interior Ministry had previously urged people to refrain from taking, on the whole.


Even as the protests were reported overnight in several locations, including the capital Damascus suburb.


BBC: n Owen Bennett-Jones of the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, the Syrian Government says has given confusing signals about how much is ready to make concessions and an internal debate on how to respond to the continuing protests, it seems that it could continue for some time.


President Assad was expected to fast-track for the lifting of emergency legislation to override the law of the Parliament, al-Watan newspaper reported.

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OUR says, the opposition now appear in the Organization of another large demonstration centers after Friday prayers at the end of the week.


Activists say, about 200 Syrian have died since the unrest began more than a month ago.


It is followed by other Arab countries, many popular uprisings in recent weeks.


Syria is being watched closely for its influential role it plays within the Middle East.


Britain, which advise against all but essential travel to Syria on Wednesday called on Britain, citizens in addition to "consider leaving the commercial means."


 

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Israel's offer of peace prize palkinnonsaajat

20 April 2011, last updated at 12: 52 Cranes in Gilo, East Jerusalem -YOU DO NOT have scuppered peace negotiations in the construction by Israel of dozens of Israeli intellectuals and artists have signed a petition calling the 1967 borders and on the basis of the Palestinian Authority, which expires at the end of the occupation.

The signatories are the 16 highest Israel Prize in the country to honor the winners of the civilian population. Among them is the pioneer in Shulamit Aloni, the rights to the historian Yehuda Bauer and the sculptor Dani Karavan.


The petition also supports the Palestinian drive for recognition by the United Nations, in the absence of progress in the peace negotiations,.


Israel opposes any unilateral move.


On Wednesday, calls for Israeli pullout published notice in the West Bank, where settlement and they take up area covers 40% of the area.


"The end of the occupation, as well as full as the peoples of the area of freedom," it says.

The two-State solution

Sign the petition-Palkinnonsaajat design is also the color of the imeytetty to the dozens of other Israeli artists and intellectuals-if the State of Israel in 1948, in front of the building in May was on Thursday.


Earlier this month, the former Israeli security chiefs and the business leaders also submitted a proposal for the Israeli peace initiative stalled peace group to begin negotiations with the Palestinians.


The moves, originating in the United States intends to ask the Palestinians to have the United Nations General Assembly to recognize an independent Palestinian State on the borders that existed before the 1967 six-day war from the start. This includes the West Bank and Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a two-State solution; the principle of the social partners have, however, nowhere near consensus on most of the kernel.


The startup of the week in September in a dispute within the US brokered talks collapsed in the occupied West Bank building on top of continued settlement.


Nearly 500 Jews live in settlements in the 10,000 in the occupied territory. The settlements are illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.


 

Monday, August 15, 2011

Kidnap suspects killed in Gaza

19 April 2011, last updated at 13: 16 Palestinians take cover during the siege in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, 19 April -YOU would have to be extended to cover people was carried out, such as the shots were fired, two of the suspects is a citizen of Italy, Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza have died during the siege, killing the Hamas police officials say.

A third suspect had suffered injury and three associates were suspects in the Nuseirat refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip during operation.


One of the two dead men has concluded an agreement in the form of suicide.


Mr. Arrigoni, 36, was kidnapped last Thursday and then hanged Salafists.


The terrorist wing of the Palestinian militant group, which controls the Gaza Strip, condemned the Gaza City, pro-Palestinian activist killing as an attack ". The Palestinian people and of humanity ", and two arrests were made in the past.


Islamists, Salafists are significant who consider Hamas Islamist organisation itself would be too reasonable.

Suppliers connected back to the

Hamas sealed before Tuesday, the operation of heavy gunfire and at least one explosion heard in Gaza parts off.

Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza - 18 March 2010Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped and killed on 14 April

Ihab Ghussein, Hamas Interior Minister spokesman, told the Associated Press news agency that one militant had thrown grenades, his comrades before Shooting himself.


Five Hamas policemen, were injured in the girl, who was caught in a crossfire as well, he added.


Widely condemned for killing Mr. Arrigoni Gaza, BBC Jon Donnison tells Ramallah.


This is the first alien abduction, since Hamas came to power in 2007. It is considered to be a part of the Hamas Government in Gaza the reward challenge, says.


Hundreds of Palestinians attended the funeral procession on Monday, the body was made by Mr. Arrigoni in Gaza out of the way back to Italy.


 

In the Gaza Strip a poem eyes

By Heathcote Williams


Ariel Sharon
Body has been in a coma
Lasting for five years.


Hell's gates are narrow.
Until he can fit through them,
He must wait its turn.


Here are some haiku
To an old war criminal
With no IQ left.


If they are read aloud,
On a million decibels,
He can detect


Hatred, all of which
Killers – however, attract
The right do you think they have been.


Sonic blast could
Open hell saw his enormous corpse
Can the press finally.


The Palestinians
Killed by Ariel Sharon
In the Sabra camp


And in Shatila,
While he animal cages their homes
Be able to see him stabbed in.


Two thousand could see,
With those killed in the Quibiya-
48 mowed down


By Sharon's death squads –
They were able to peer from a distance
To see his trapped soul


Snoen and heaving,
In pipes. Then, other
Who is fine in Gaza


And had their houses
Beaten by him stab
Them alive to be able to see.


His ' Operation
Peace in Galilee ' would kill
18 Thousand more.


They could also draw
Study their tormentor
Final solution:


He breathes without the help,
But otherwise, it is clear that
There is no there.


There must be a price
When you have enabled a person in
None so often.


Just as the wall he built
To split a Semitic
People — he is cut off.


Like the olive trees
On others ' land he uprooted,
He is now barren –


He can not produce fruit.
After years without listening,
He speaks no longer.


He ordered triggers
To retrieve targeted
Murder


In The Gaza Strip.
Now he is able to move
A single digit.


Under cage people
In the Gaza ghetto is he
In a live burial.


-Heathcote Williams is an English poet, actor and award-winning playwright. He contributed this poem to PalestineChronicle.com.


 

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Ghosts from the past pile pressure on Assad

By Shahab Jafry – Dubai

Syria is not blessed, or rather cursed with black gold endowment that is irresistible imperial interests, but nevertheless, the late Hafez al Assad raised the such known in the Middle East political calculus that all u.s. President from Nixon to Clinton was forced to indulge in diplomatic business with it. George Bush turned trend of his son and successor Bashar unlikely by openly trumpeting neocon requirement for regime change in Syria, but the latter survived welcome a call for engagement from Obama. In fact, even survival is the biggest achievement for who holds the seat of power in politics of Båth Damascus, and Bashar al-Assad has played his cards well since 2000 bloodless succession.

With the wave of popular protests now trends way into Syria, says Dr Assad, however, the toughest test of his presidency, which has already survived internal and external intrigue including failed palace coup, isrælske maneuvers and pressure from Washington's wahabittiske petro-allies in the Gulf. And as the Western media savage posturing condemn Assad regime to international isolation, it is important to note elements of truth in Assad's warning about the broker an understanding with him "about" that nothing is ever completely black or white in the Middle East policy of zero-sum, heartless game.

True, high youth unemployment and food inflation has connected to shake the power structures ruthlessly running countries like to personal businesses throughout the Arab world. But as the uprising has spread and took an outlook seems to be more relevant for political ideology and sectarian representation, eager young people exploited also increasingly of more sinister elements draws on strings from afar. In such cases, as it is already clear in Egypt, regime change and achieve just rubbishing the old system of precious little for those who forced the spring.

Bashar Assad is tens of thousands of riots across Damascus, Banyas, Daraa and Homs as piece-movements on a high-game of geopolitical chessboard. Just as much, if not more than economics, food prices and statistics now ghosts from the past, as a football match Syrian powder keg. Bashars rise was controversial from the start, the first wave of opposition comes from one of his father's most trusted aides in three decades, Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. Long number three in the Setup Assad he could not stop the arrangement Succession war as Bashar was installed aged only 34.

Khaddam sought exile in France in ' 05 after Bashar's pullout from Lebanon and began lobbying for the collapse of a system for he had served loyally for more than three decades. He made malicious statements concerning the Syrian participation in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. Even he held Damascus responsible for shock ' 08 out of the House of Hezbollah strongman Immad Mughnieh, trying to drive a wedge in the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah nexus even as the murder clearly bar Mossads fingerprints.

Claims that he has put his weight behind the riots dismantling in Syria cannot be ignored completely. Former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri's wikileaked advice, Assad may be replaced by a Khaddam-Muslim Brotherhood alliance might not fall on deaf ears, even though the two would make very uncomfortable bedfellows despite finding commong ground, because Khaddam shared with his masters. That this apparently conspired as Hariri was on a visit to Damascus to reconcile with the regime he reveals when the blame for his father murder only the hypocritical nature of the Lebanese-Syrian policy. Brotherhood, for its part, has clearly not forgotten stock exchange in the hands of Hafez in the early 1980s, when they took to the streets to spore-regime.

Then there is always the Saudi pressure, now more than ever to deal with Iranian support for the Bahrain's shia. Syrians hold the Saudis "instrumental" in arranging Khaddams desertion as well as his marriage to flags of convenience with the brotherhood. With the ground suddenly very fruitful for dissatisfaction would Syrians not exactly limit of paranoia, if they suspected Saudi petrodollars by helping sow seeds dissonance. There is traditionally a little love loss between Syria's Alawite regime, an offshoot of shia sect, who holds power in Iran and wahabisterne increase the rows of brotherhood and Saudi monarchy. It is also not a coincidence, to wives Hariri, Khaddam and Saudi King Abdullah are sisters.

And, of course, never to miss any movement of Parliament Assad arch enemy in Israel, waiting to pounce on the slightest Show of weakness. This has been rather passive, since Damascus handled the aftermath of the Tel Aviv ' 07 arrogant Show aerial superiority well enough to force it to seek the secret Turkish mediation on the issue of the Golan Heights. Isrælerne remains even cautious with Syria's backing of its nemesis Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as well as Hamas in Gaza.

In view of political intricacies, it is becoming clearer, mobilization of Arab street facing one country after another in a proxy battlefield for both regional and foreign powers. Increasingly have legitimate demands of anger and unemployed Syrian youth gangs mutated into a farcical tug of war between the regional camps.

For their own good to the Syrians to draw the right lessons from Tahrir Square. They have the right in mimic Show of defiance and send a clear signal to the leadership. They should stop from overthrow a structure with no promise of compensation even remote access more sympathetic to their cause. People need to push Assad on genuine complaints he has accepted--unemployment, inflation, political oppression, lack of democracy--and ensure constant pressure in order to advance on these requirements. Unnecessary persistence, especially if it hides the Government, not benefit people only outside forces bent on personal and political gain.

Damascus has played a central role in the maintenance (and changing) regional equilibrium. Once again it says it at the center of a regional paradigm shift where the waves of anger can overcome the voice advocating constant nerves and overthrow the broader region into chaos. More than petro sheikh judgment financed guerrilla cum political movements and superpower buffer States, heavy lies in the head that wears Crown in Damascus.

-Jafry Shahab is a freelance journalist based in Dubai. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Contact him at: jafry.shahab@gmail.com.


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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Injuriantens as an historian

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By Jeremy Salt – Ankara


Benny Morris is a man who has completely lost his moral compass. One has to assume it was there at some point, but driven by the logic of his own research, and forced to make a choice, Morris opted for justification rather than rejection of the war crimes committed by Israel in 1948. He made his name as an historian with The Birth of the Palestine Refugee Problem 1947-1949 (1989). The central value of this book lay in what Morris found in the Zionist archives, corroborating what Palestinian survivors of the first phase of the Nakba and Palestinian historians had been saying for decades. Morris did not write anything they did not already know. In the western cultural mainstream, however, the book was regarded as 'groundbreaking', and in a way it was. The fact that a Jew had written the book was important. Western liberals previously too frightened to speak out for fear of being called anti-Semitic now had some of that burden lifted from their shoulders. The timing of the book's publication was also important. At a point when the traditional Zionist narrative could no longer be maintained, Morris appeared at the right time to update it, admitting mistakes and even crimes, but always within a Zionist framework of understanding. A serious weakness was his failure, or refusal, to connect the past to the present. There is no examination of the centrality of 'transfer' in Zionist thinking from the very beginning, no indication that the 1948 war allowed the Zionists to do what they had been planning all along. The reader needed to know this to fully understand what happened and why. The expulsion of the Palestinians  was not incidental, or an unintended consequence of war, but the long anticipated and  deliberate, if partial,  resolution of a problem which had to be solved if there was to be a 'Jewish' state.


Although Morris' research leads him ineluctably towards obvious conclusions the book ends with judgment hanging in the air, as if he can't make up his mind. On his own evidence, the Zionists committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1948, up to and including the crime of genocide, but not until he was interviewed by Ari Shavitz for Haaretz in 2004 did Morris openly pass judgment on what he had found out. There is no regret, or remorse, but only justification of war crimes. The Palestinians had to be 'cleansed', otherwise Israel could not have come into existence. Ben-Gurion was a 'transferist' who unfortunately got cold feet. Israel would have been much better off ('quieter') if he had finished what he started. (Morris was speaking at a time when suicide bombers were striking in Jerusalem). He does not rule out a third wave (after 1948 and 1967) of 'transfer', involving not just  the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza but those over whose heads and on whose land the state of Israel was built in the first place, the Palestinians of Galilee and the Triangle. They are a fifth column and if Morris is not in favor of their 'transfer' it is only 'not at the moment'. For Morris, there is a sickness afoot, not in an Israel built on the crimes he has just admitted, although, of course, he doesn't call them crimes, but in Palestinian society. The Palestinians 'should be treated the way we treat serial killers .. something like a cage has to be built for them … there is a wild animal there that has to be locked up one way or the other'. Jabotinsky's iron wall was the answer. 'What Jabotinsky proposed is what Ben-Gurion adopted. Ben-Gurion argued [with Moshe Sharett] that the Arabs understand only force and that ultimately force will persuade them to accept our presence here. He was right'. Well, the Zionists finally delivered Jabotinsky's wall in the form of concrete and created their nature reserve for wild animals in the Gaza Strip, closed off by the sea and fences and open to hunting expeditions in all seasons by the Israeli army.


Morris distinguishes between the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli army in 1948 and the genocide he says was being planned by the Arabs. Obviously the distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide is a fine one but what the Israelis actually did in 1948, as opposed to what Morris says the Arabs were planning to do, was not just 'ethnic cleansing' (a phrase not then in use) but genocide, as defined in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948. The convention describes as genocide five acts 'committed with the intention to destroy,  in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group'. Three of these acts (Article II) are defined as the following: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part. The match between what the Zionists did, and intended to do, and the terms of the Convention, leaves no room for doubt. The enemy was not just the armed fighters  but the entire Palestinian  people, men, women and children, along with everything representative of their presence, their homes, their villages, their towns, their fields, their olive groves and grapes, their mosques and their schools. In the interview with Haaretz, Morris establishes himself as a defiant, and arrogant, apologist for crimes that in other circumstances have landed their perpetrators and their apologists before war crimes tribunals. Serb ultra-nationalists used the same language in the 1990s to explain why they had to ‘cleanse’ their claimed homeland of Bosnians and Albanians, whom they also regarded as animals. In justifying ethnic cleansing and speaking of a Palestinian 'fifth column' inside Israel, Morris  stands in the same rabid company as Avigdor Lieberman, settler rabbis and  their racist, fanatical followers,  and a sizeable number of members of the Knesset whose vulgar, hateful diatribes against the Palestinians and Israeli traitors  are an echo of his own.


Having justified the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Morris followed up with an argument for the bombing of Iran. Writing in the New York Times of July 18, 2004, he predicted that Israel would attack Iran within the next four to seven months. He was wrong, of course, as were  many others writing on the subject, but not only did Morris think Iran would be attacked, he thought it should be attacked, because, of course, once 'the mullahs' got their hands on a nuclear weapon they would use it, and then Israel would be forced to use its nuclear weapons. So better, according to Benny Morris, to disable Iran with conventional weapons now than with nuclear weapons later. There would be thousands of casualties, he admitted  (tens of thousands,  more probably) but, as he had said  insouciantly of the expulsion of the Palestinians in the Haaretz interview,  you can't  make an omelette without breaking eggs.


Now Morris has come out with a vicious attack on an Israeli historian who, far from justifying the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, has condemned it. 'The Liar as Hero', a review of three of Ilan Pappé's books, appears in the New Republic.(1) which, along with Commentary, is just  the kind of publication where you would expect such invective to appear.  Ilan Pappé is well capable of defending himself, of course. What characterises this review, however, is not the mistakes he may or may not have made but  the malignant nature of Morris' attacks on his  character. Pappé is never just wrong. He is out to 'blacken the image of Israel and its leaders in 1948'; he is one of the world's sloppiest historians and certainly one of the most dishonest; he is a liar; he falsifies history; he is brazen; he 'omits and ignores significant evidence'; he deliberately slants  history; he is profoundly ignorant of basic facts; indeed, his histories are 'worthless' as representations of the past'; his contempt for historical truth and fact 'is almost boundless'; he is a 'retroactive poseur'; his work is shoddy 'and has grown shoddier with the years'; by supporting the international boycott of Israel his motive is to hurt the people with whom he works; finally, Morris makes a comparison between Pappé and William Joyce, who broadcast for the Nazis as 'Lord Haw Haw' and was hanged in 1945. In other words, Ilan Pappé is a traitor who would be deserving of the same fate.


None of this slander should surprise anyone. Morris has a vicious tongue. He engaged in coarse abuse of Arafat when the 'peace process' publicly collapsed. He is a man who is obviously psychologically incapable of drawing the only conclusions possible from his own research. For Morris, nothing the Zionists did explains Palestinian resistance 'towards the Jewish existence here'. If ethnic cleansing, massacres and the destruction of close to 500 villages, just as a starting point, is not enough, one has to wonder what would be enough for Benny Morris. Like Bernard Lewis, he seeks alternative explanations in the history of Islam and the Arabs. Despite Israel's land theft, its  primitive pre-enlightenment ideology, its wars and its massacres, far eclipsing any ever committed in history by Arabs against Jews, it is the Arabs whose society Morris characterises as 'barbarian' (his Haaretz interview). Some of this came out in the attack he and Ehud  Barak launched on Yasser Arafat and Arab culture (inherently dishonest, of course) in the pages of the New York Review of Books. Yet all Morris has to do, as a starting point, is step out of his Jerusalem home and look around him. He must do this but obviously does not see what he does not want to see. He is living in an Arab city that has been taken over and is still being subjected every day to racist demographic warfare. He can drive to Hebron and see what is being done there. Maybe he does drive there, but he certainly does not want to talk about it. Of course, the Palestinians never resisted 'the Jewish existence here', as he remarked in the Haaretz interview, but only Zionism and the theft of Palestine from under their feet. Here Morris is manipulating language, using 'Jewish' for emotional impact. If anything really damaged the 'Jewish existence' right across the Middle East it was Zionism. It deliberately set out to subvert the position of Jewish communities living mostly at peace with Christians and Muslims over many centuries and it succeeded. They are now almost all gone, a tragedy second only to the dispossession of the Palestinians.   


Ilan Pappé's claim that Zionism is 'a racist and quite evil philosophy of morality and life' enrages Morris, despite the mountain of evidence that doctrinally, historically, structurally and incidentally, points in this direction. The statement is wrong only in the sense that Zionism is not a philosophy but an idea, and a bad one at that. Pappés language, says Morris, attempting to smear by association, 'is fully as virulent as Hamas's or worse'. He criticises Teddy Katz, and Pappé, who graded the master's thesis he presented to the University of Haifa in 1998, over claims in the thesis of a large-scale massacre being committed at Tantura in 1948. According to the oral testimony of Palestinian survivors and Jewish witnesses, including members of the Alexandroni Brigade who were involved, soldiers went on the rampage after the village was captured and massacred about 250 people. Some were taken to the beach and shot in cold blood. The Jewish witnesses included a man who supervised the burial of the victims and personally counted about 230 bodies.(2) Following the publication in Maariv of the gist of the thesis, Katz was sued for libel by members of the Alexandroni Brigade. During the trial, under pressure from friends and family, not to mention attacks by hostile academics, Katz, who had also recently suffered a heart attack, broke down and recanted. This might now be called the Goldstone effect. Twelve hours he withdrew his recantation and insisted that the trial be continued, but the judge refused.


The evidence gathered by Katz is voluminous and thoroughly consistent with descriptions of other massacres carried out across Palestine. Morris, in his review of Ilan Pappé's books, claims to have interviewed survivors also, but his basic point of reference is the official record. This is his gospel. He says there is no evidence of such a massacre in the archives but only 'small-scale' atrocities, along with the shooting of a 'handful' of Arab snipers (how small is small-scale and how many Arab snipers constitute a handful?). As all other massacres were recorded, although it is unlikely that all were, we are invited to believe that there cannot have been a massacre at Tantura.


Here, while the Israeli archives confirm much of what the Palestinians have been saying for decades,   they cannot be regarded as conclusive. Archives never are. They might tell part of the story but never the whole story. They are the official record, after all, more likely to conceal than reveal. There were killings of large groups of people across Palestine. The Zionist archives record some of them, invariably justifying what was done, but the official reports cannot possibly be regarded as the definitive account. People involved in the cold-blooded slaughter of defenceless men, women and children are not likely to own up. In fact, the evidence for a large-scale massacre having taken place at Tantura remains overwhelming.


The review of Ilan Pappé's three books has to be seen for what it is, not just a review that any historian would be asked to write but a calculated and very vicious attempt to destroy the author's reputation. Along with Gilad Atzmon and numerous other Israelis, Pappé has broken with Israel for good reasons. Benny Morris has stuck it with it for bad ones. This rancorous diatribe says far more about Benny Morris than it does Ilan Pappé. He can defend his own record as an historian and he is far better placed than Benny Morris to describe the pressures  directed against him in Israel, so it will be interesting to see what he has to say in response to this hatchet job by a man who destroyed his own moral credibility  a long time ago.   


- Jeremy Salt is associate professor in Middle Eastern History and Politics at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, he taught at Bosporus University in Istanbul and the University of Melbourne in the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science. Professor Salt has written many articles on Middle East issues, particularly Palestine, and was a journalist for The Age newspaper when he lived in Melbourne. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.


Notes:


(1) 'The Liar as Hero', New Republic, March 17, 2011. 
(2) Ilan Pappé, 'The Tantura Case in Israel: the Katz Research and Trial', Journal of Palestine Studies, XXX No. 7 (2001), 19-39.