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August 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestine, American Muslim leadership & assimilationist strategic math
The recent debate ignited by Professor Tariq Ramadan’s letter announcing his decision not to attend the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) annual conventions raised a number of critical issues, but also highlighted a growing tension that has been previously kept under control up to this point. Immediately after…
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August 12, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Kill them all to rescue a dying colonialism
I wanted to write this article sometime ago but events and developments kept intruding and my attention taken away or stolen from the critical into the tangential. As more events unfold and the death rates in the Arab and Muslim world reach catastrophic levels and the region all up in flames. My pen can no…
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July 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The topography of Israel’s power in America AIPAC 100 – Palestine 0
On the same night that Israel launched its ground offensive against Occupied Gaza, the US Senate by unanimous consent, which means 100 out of 100 senators voted to support Israel’s war on Gaza. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) introduced resolution 498, but ended up with 79…
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July 23, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
A license to kill: “Israel right to defend itself”
Western politicians’ repeated canard that “Israel has the right to defend itself” against the Occupied Palestinian population has to be understood as an open license to maim and kill anyone in range. Voices from across the political spectrum repeat this utterance, which I am sure is handed down to them from Israeli public relations outfits…
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July 21, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Western media: The clean-up crew for Israeli crimes
The New York Times (NYT) July 16th, 2014 coverage of Israeli military murder of 4 Palestinian kids playing on the Gaza beach leaves much to be desired and was a sophisticated media-speak piece whereby the actual event is reported but in the process the newspaper obfuscated and shifted responsibility away from Israel. From the title…
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July 18, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Gaza: A symbol of global dispossession
We are living at a time when Wall Street thieves are celebrated for being canny smart investors while bankrupting countries; when politicians who invade countries killing hundreds of thousands based on falsified or manufactured evidence are honored with libraries and buildings bearing their names; and when a professor who wrote torture memos is granted endowed…
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July 1, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Israel and the Regional Strategic Landscape
Palestine throughout the 20th century has been subject to and effected by the stategic global and regional balance of power. From the end of WWI up to the present the stategic balance favored Israel and its allies. However and moving forward, the strategic balance in the region is not in Israel’s favor, thus not only the…
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June 22, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestinian society and the Apartheid Wall
Through successive periods of intervention by the British, Jordanian and Israeli governments, Palestinians as a society, have been maintained in a predominantly dependent agriculture and agrarian economy. Family, clan and tribe closely identified with agriculture and land ownership has served as a stabilizing factor for the Occupied population. In more than one region in the…
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June 5, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Islam, Reform and the “Modern” Rational
At the gates of the 20th century, Muslims had already taken an intellectually defensive and at times hostile posture toward the “West” with a hegemonic colonial discourse slowly casting itself in many parts of the Muslim world. Across all regions Muslims found themselves at a military, economic and political disadvantage visa via the “West” and in…
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June 3, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
US policy in the Middle East: Containment strategy and the “War on Terrorism”
Policy is constructed in social context by elite’s entanglement and contestation of the political, social, economic and religious forces acting on it both internally and externally. The forces shaping US foreign policy is complex and multifaceted but all operate within an existing national consensus on the priorities set forth in post WWII and continue to…
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