Keywords: Middle East Conflict
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 12 September 2011
3 Comments
The disparate strands of Libya's revolution have been held together by a single unifying thread: a visceral desire to oust Gaddafi. Extremely effective as a rallying cry for rebellion, this anti-Gaddafi sentiment is deeply flawed as the unifying narrative for a new nation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 26 August 2011
2 Comments
Obama and NATO have been lucky that this campaign has worked thus far. To participate in a brutal civil war is always a dangerous game of chance. So far, the rebels have limited their bouts of revenge to arson and looting. A blood bath has not ensued, at least not yet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 April 2011
3 Comments
Nawal, disgraced and exiled from her Christian village for an affair with a Muslim man, conceals her crucifix and hitches a ride on a bus laden with Muslims. Shortly, the bus is halted by a squadron of bloodthirsty Christian militants.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 23 February 2011
3 Comments
Gallipolli was a disaster and a relatively minor conflict, but it is upon such 'minor' conflicts that Empires are built. These songs go to the heart of a contradictory dilemma: the love of country on the one hand and the ugly extremes of patriotism on the other.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 December 2010
17 Comments
Jesus was born into a family of internal refugees. His mother had to seek refuge, fleeing Herod's nasty dictatorship. It's uncertain whether she used the services of satanic people smugglers.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
3 Comments
May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bruce Duncan
- 06 August 2010
The election has been plagued by trivial spats and personality conflicts, to the neglect of policies based on the values of equity and social justice for everyone. This reinforces the importance of church and community groups
being more active in their social advocacy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Simon Roughneen
- 24 May 2010
Standing amid the burnt-out ruins of southeast Asia's second biggest
shopping mall, it becomes clear the
Land of Smiles has become a land of snarls. The uncompromising quashing of the anti-government
redshirt rally by the Thai army may have sown the seeds for more
conflict later on.
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AUSTRALIA
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass
distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role
music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern
Europe and Indonesia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
An old joke goes that if you understand Middle East politics, it has not been explained properly. This book places events in their
historical context, and illustrates why the conflict, with its religious and political dimensions, is so difficult to resolve.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Dorsey
- 04 February 2009
2 Comments
Memories of the Gaza war are likely to focus on the human
rights aspects of Israel's military conduct. Demographics could constitute a greater threat to Israel than
rockets or terrorism, and may be the wrench that breaks
the cycle of death and destruction.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
6 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots. (September 2008)
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