Mainstream Muslim religious leaders in Pakistan have formed an alliance to openly oppose the Taliban, a development that promises to give authorities broad-based support to fight militants who have imposed a reign of terror on much of the northwest. In the past, military operations against the Taliban have evoked widespread accusations that the government was fighting Washington's war, a view reinforced by a belief that dialogue and diplomacy could rein in the Taliban's more barbarous practices.
While I was greatly relieved not to have to plough through the tedious boilerplate account of Islam which bulks up nearly all books in this market category, the absence of any account of the growing role of Islamism in the social life of territories plagued not only with occupation but with subsequent authoritarianism and rampant corruption will leave many readers with their unfortunate illusions about Islamic fanaticism securely in place. Given the network of smuggling tunnels linking Egypt and Gaza, and the ease with which Israeli intelligence apparatuses manipulate naive young Arab men through blackmail and entrapment, contact between al-Qa'ida offshoots and Hamas loyalists should not surprise the savvy observer.
One such opportunity squandered was on behalf of Katrina victims. Instead of the effort that did go on - a costly if simple act of charity the authors do commend - help could have been less short-term and one-shot, but instead aimed at building a movement and serving as a teachable moment: one that showed how capital is mismanaging, how neoliberalism was bankrupt and how its victims are everywhere, even among the invisible poor of the ninth ward. It's the same paradigm the authors use to fault the unions, including the [John Sweeney] leadership, for not railing against the Clinton administration's support for "welfare reform," of which the TANF program is correctly seen as "an attack on the poorest sections of the working class." Instead of at minimum speaking out, the labor movement le...
Throughout his career, journalist Zaki Chehab, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, interviewed leaders from the many factions who competed for power among the Palestinians. Because Chehab is unable to define Hamas without referring to the complex web of relationships between it and the other Palestinian factions (Israel and neighboring countries), the reader must have considerable understanding of the Palestinian conflict to fully appreciate Chehab's analysis.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd and a freed Hamas leader exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps. Hamas, which had negotiated the release, turned the celebration into a show of strength for the Islamic militant movement, which had seized Gaza from its moderate rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in 2007.
SANAA, Yemen - A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility, saying in an emailed statement that the suicide attack was intended to avenge a U.S.-backed offensive against al-Qaida in a swath of southern Yemen seized by the militant movement last year.
Yeshiva Hesder-Akko, founded in 2001 , is a pro-settler national religious school in the midst of a now majority Arab neighborhood called Wolf son. Over the years, many of the area's Jewish residents had become more affluent and moved out, and poorer Arabs moved in. This hesder-yeshiva, a school for Israeli Jewish men who combine military service with religious study, often attracting strict adherents of the militant settler movement, is run by Yossi Stem, a rabbi, from the militant West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh. Stem, who is also on the Acre city council, told The Washington Post last year that he and his associates were working on projects designed to "attract Jews to Acre," including a 350-unit housing complex designated for Jewish military families, and another yeshiva (Scott W...
NEW YORK - CNN has fired an editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing admiration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement. Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet, but CNN's senior vice president for international newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, said Wednesday that Nasr's credibility had been compromised.
SANAA, Yemen - A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility, saying in an e- mailed statement that the suicide attack was intended to avenge a U.S.-backed offensive against al-Qaida in a swath of southern Yemen seized by the militant movement last year.
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