Posts tagged "Israel"
UN General Assembly Vote on Palestine: Turning the tables on Israel & US

UN General Assembly Vote on Palestine: Turning the tables on Israel & US

It was a landmark vote on late Thursday (November 29) when the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly choose to stand by the Palestine people – in their struggle for sovereignty and self-determination. On that day, the UN General Assembly voted to make Palestine a non-member observer state, accepting in de-facto, its status as an independent...
Egypt: Another tryst with turmoil

Egypt: Another tryst with turmoil

Egypt is in the throes of yet another political crisis; one that threatens to further polarise an already fragmented nation as it painstaking steers itself through the protracted process of constitutional reforms. By an executive decree issued on November 22, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi ruled that his decisions since assuming office will not be subject...
Middle East: Peace in the shadow of War

Middle East: Peace in the shadow of War

In a post-cold war world, the crisis in the Middle-East (West Asia from this part of the world) is the one issue potent enough to polarize opinion across in the world and threaten world peace. Here territorial conflict most often, if not always gets driven to religious interpretation. A breeding ground for fundamentalist thought and...