http://www.middleeastpundit.com "The light being limitless and eternal cannot be shut off" Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:11:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en photo accessed via Drudge Report 6/11/9 http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=310 The Palestinians cannot form a unity government because they refuse to recognize Israel. The International community has made this one of their conditions and Hamas will not give in. And who's the intransigent one? http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=308 Abu Mazen says Israeli roadblocks have caused the failure of Palestinian industry...that if only Israel removed the roadblocks, the Palestinians could become financially independent and grow their private sector. What he fails to take into account is whenever Israel has removed the roadblocks, suicide and car bombings have increased ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=304 Both Ayatollah Khatami of Iran and now Hamas' Ismail Haniyah have said the U.S.'s financial crisis is divine punishment from Allah. My question to both of them naturally is this - then what does Iran's and the Palestinian's economic crisis stem from? Why is the former punishment from ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=303 Here's what we know according to corroborated news reports: five Palestinians died due to Egyptian security forces blowing up tunnels Palestinians use for smuggling. Here's where the story differs... Reuters says Egyptian security forces blew up two tunnels beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border due to "smuggling" but with no qualifier. The Jerusalem ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=302 Palestinians use Israel's independence as an opportunity to denounce Israel and the media complies in this false narrative making Israel out to be the bourgeois perpetrator of evil with the Palestinians as helpless victims who had everything taken from them. The Palestinians have designated this day as "al nakba," aka, the ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=297 Everyone's witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=296 The BBC has reported two members of Hamas' military wing were killed at one of their training facilities in the Gaza Strip, and, true to script, Hamas has blamed Israel for their deaths. Knowing Hamas, they probably died while trying to put together suicide bombs or some other form of explosive ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=295 The NY Time argues the Bush Administration has had a huge policy shift in the Middle East, seeking to facilitate peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, whereas previously the Administration has had a very hands off approach. The story says, At President Bush’s first National Security Council meeting in January 2001, ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=294 Bernard Lewis highlights two very different set of issues for today's Annapolis summit regarding what he terms "The Jewish Question." The first issue involves Israel and physical border disputes with her neighbors - something which can and should be worked on. However, if the discussion consists of the existence of the state ... http://www.middleeastpundit.com/?p=293