Washington Report On Middle East Affairs – October 2018

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMPhas reimposed an old set of American sanctions on Iran, as well as new ones following his abandonment of t ...

THEY HAVE capped Lebanon’s mountaintops for thousands of years. The Phoenicians used their wood to build merchant ships and Egyp ...

lution is not by replanting trees,” Nemer said. “First, we need to take care of the health of the ecosystem in which the cedar t ...

Two Views 44 WAshington REpoRt on MiDDLE EAst AffAiRs oCtoBER 2018 Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader By Eric S. Margolis THE WO ...

India keeps one million soldiers and police there to repress the rebellious majority Muslim population that seeks to join Pakist ...

are in Afghanistan. They represent a pow- erful force in Pakistani politics—and that’s where Imran Khan, Pakistan’s new prime mi ...

FOR THOSE TURKS old enough to re- member the 1990s, when the economy was stalked by triple-digit inflation and Main Street banks ...

attack by foreign powers—principally the U.S.—and their local, traitorous allies. COMPARATIVE CRISES Yet, “nothing is fundamenta ...

THERE HAS BEEN perceptible movement of late on one of the world’s most intractable territorial disputes. For more than four deca ...

tor” in international negotiations involving Western Sahara. On the other hand, Polis- ario’s delegate to the EU, Mohammed Si- d ...

NO U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL is ever going to get unanimous praise from everyone, and certainly not in the con- text of the Middle ...

Annan did indeed point out that Israel was excluded from U.N. institutions, which it was, while other offenders against internat ...

their capabilities. As secretary-general he assembled an articulate and confi- dent team who could push the envelope on events a ...

URI AVNERY, 94, who died Aug. 20 in Tel Aviv, was a German emigré to Palestine as a child; a teenaged member of the notori- ous ...

WHILE THE BDS MOVE- MENT gains ground in much of the world, occasioning fran- tic efforts by Israel’s support- ers to suppress i ...

problem for the Israeli government,” he told the BBC’s Dave Gordon. The major growth in Chinese investment in Israel has taken p ...

Four Years After Israel’s 2014 War on Gaza, a New One May Be on the Horizon By Mohammed Omer “FE HARB?”asks Ahamad Abdelaziz. No ...

He and his family fled the Israeli rockets falling from the sky— but were unable to escape the missiles fired from the many Isra ...

part of a reconciliation between Hamas and Abbas’ al-Fatah movement. Dahlan fre- quently does UAE Crown Prince Mo- hammed bin Za ...

WAGING PEACE Does Hamas Now Have the Upper Hand Over Israel and the PA? The Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) pro- vided an update ...