YVONNE RIDLEY WHAT concerns me is that the Zionist and/or pro-Israeli lobby in Washington is now beginning to support Morocco and their agenda is quite clear.The territory has been described as one of the most desolate places in the world. But it is also one of the most hotly disputed pieces of land on the [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ON February 27th, 2004, the European Union, or EU, condemned in the harshest terms the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohamad, who, in a controversial speech at the opening of the tenth session of the Islamic Summit Conference, maintained that the Jews rule the world by proxy. By “proxy” is meant to [...]
By AHMAD HUSSEIN AS-SHIMI "ISRAEL'S Success in developing its relations with western African states – especially these falling south of the Great Sahara region bordering Arab African states – shall achieve very important strategic gains for it, which shall overcome areas of its strategic weakness due to the tight band of Arab States surrounding it, [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY I RECENTLY spoke to someone from Hamas and told them I was coming here this evening. I was very enthusiastic on several different levels and was rather crestfallen when he just sneered, shrugged his shoulders and looked singularly unimpressed. When I pressed him and asked surely it was important for all sides to [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND AMIDST fresh waves of indiscriminate violence between the Israeli military and Hizb’Allah fighters in Lebanon a little over a year ago, I resorted to a simple yet objective experiment. I tuned in to the FOX news cable channel one Saturday evening for some commentary on both sides of the issue. I pretended [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND EVEN TO the casual observer of international events, the Bush Administration has adopted a decidedly defensive, albeit aggressive, foreign policy stance against terrorism since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Since then, conservative sympathizers within the mainstream media have successfully disseminated a clear distinction between “extremist” and [...]
