America sends its soldiers to fight in Afghanistan at the same time that it rejects to reduce their oil consumption.

Tags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, Combat Mission, dependency, Double Game, flood, Iraq, Middle-East, Obama, oil, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban

Desertec: Future project or Trojan Horse?

Tags: Africa, Desertec, EU, MENA-Region, Middle-East, photovoltaics, renewable energy, Sahara, solar power, solarthermics, Solucár, Spain, Trojan Horse

There are Palestinians – and they are many – who believe Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition may be good for the Palestinians.

Tags: Israel, Middle-East, Netanyahu, Palestinians

We do not know what special envoy George Mitchell told President Barack Obama after his tour of the Middle East. But here is what I hope

Tags: Israel, Middle-East, Obama

Watching one U.S. soldier doing nation-building in the West Bank.

Tags: Dayton, Middle-East, Obama, West Bank

Extremists on each side sustain the other, and the Israeli assault in Gaza is likely to create more terrorists in the long run.

Tags: Gaza, Israel, Kristof!, Middle-East

Barack Obama’s goal has to be a settlement in Gaza that eliminates the threat of Hamas rockets and opens Gaza economically to the world, under credible international supervision.

Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Middle-East, Obama

Other bitter historical hatreds have cooled. But in the Middle East the dead still rule.

Tags: Gaza, Israel, Middle-East

By Catrin Ormestad (Haaretz)
MARCH 10, 2008
“If they wanted to kill Khaled, they could have done it when he was alone,” says a relative of the Attalah family who lives in the same street. “Why did they have to bomb the whole house?”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962399.html

Tags: Gaza, Middle-East

By Yossi Sarid
MARCH 7, 2008
After more than 40 years, “cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease,” what good is one more “Warm Winter”? Even a thousand swallows from the rumpled sleeves of Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas will not make a spring.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/961779.html

Tags: Gaza, Middle-East, Yossi Sarid

By Yossi Melman
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/958467.html

Tags: Middle-East

By Rhonda Spivak
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957356.html

Tags: Israel, Middle-East, Palestinians, study, suicide bombers

Esra’a from the great interreligious and international blog Mid East Youth has discovered Peace Oil.
We covered it only a few days ago. Therefore it is particularly great to see this product having a positive impact.

Tags: fairplanet, Israel, Middle-East