Middle East Studies
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Title: Death Made In America: Impacts of Depleted Uranium Contamination on Afghanistan’s Children: Disturbing Photographs.
Author: Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki
URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DAU20060509&articleId=2412
Abstract:
This is a photo essay illustrating the intensity of environmental damage caused by the contamination of depleted Uranium used by the American soldiers and its impact on Afghan children, via these photos of babies born deformed.
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Title: Background resource: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Author: By Yifat Susskind, the Associate Director of MADRE, a registered tax-exempt charitable organization based in New York, NY.
URL: http://www.madre.org/country_pal_bg.html
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This article offers information about the background of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 1948 following the World War II. It covers issues related to the conflict, including the 1967 Israeli Occupation, signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993, the Palestinian Uprisings of 1987 and 2000, America hindering the peace process by giving military aid to Israel and by vetoing the Security Council of the United Nations to block resolutions condemning Israel for human rights abuses against Palestinians and violations of international law. This article exposes the ethnic and religious rivalry, role of Palestinian youth in confronting Israeli troops, mass media’s bias and the probabilities for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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Title: A Wall In Their Heart
URL: http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/wall_yediot_eng.html
It presents a report by Meron Rappaport published in p. M16 of an Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth on May 23, 2003.
It highlights various issues related to the Israeli-West Bank barrier wall.
Worth reading and helps understand the core issues behind the ’security’ fence.
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Title: The reformist illusion
Author: Graham Usher
Journal: Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Issue: No. 63 Dated March 20-26, 2003.
Online Accessibility: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/630/re2.htm
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This is a response to an editorial in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam, by the editor and former PLO negotiator, Akram Haniyya, explaining the reasons for embarking by Palestinian leadership on the road of reform, including the decision to appoint a Palestinian prime minister (PM). Citing Haniyya’s opinion that the appointment of a PM with jurisdictions and responsibilities is a part of the Road-Map to end the occupation and pave the way to negotiations based on a two-state solution, the author states that Haniyya is reflecting the political philosophy of his mentor and the Palestinian PM-in-waiting, Mahmoud Abbass or Abu-Mazen. The author also discusses the ideas of Abbass who leads a stream within Fatah that believes in reducing factional powers and exposing Sharon’s stupidity.
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Title: Raise Your Voices Against War: No Blood for Oil
URL: http://www.web.net/sworker/En/SW2002/387-03-oil.html
Abstract: Very informative article, presenting the Real BACKGROUND OF IRAQ WAR and imperialist interests of the United States President George W. Bush behind waging a war on Iraq. It is mentioned that the emergence of oil as a major commodity in the mid 19th century, seven major oil corporations, including one British, one Dutch-British and five American, came to control the world oil supplies. When oil is discovered in the Middle East after World War One, the seven sisters, backed by Anglo-American imperialism, moved in and bribed their way into positions where they controlled this oil. This scenario is changed in 1959, when Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, together formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to wrest this wealth from the Seven Sisters. Fearing a unified Middle East dictating the terms of oil supplies, the American policy on Middle east changed rapidly, which finally manifested in the 2003 Iraq War. ..
It presents real historical facts.. every one should know
