A criminal is a criminal whether it is Military god or a simple civilian. Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Senegal etc, are predominantly Muslim countries and doing well under democratic Governments. The whole Arab spring (whether it is real awakening or plotted) is actually shows Ernest...
Political hold is increasing on military affairs by Erdogan- Gul duo. Lot more needs to be done to further institutionalize YAS where out of 13 members 11 are from armed forces and only two PM & Def. min are Civilians. It is better to dismantle YAS and Put armed forces directly under defense...
Syria: the view from Israel
As the Syrian crisis has reached the tipping point and the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime seems to be a matter of time, Israel has abandoned the passive stance it has maintained since this crisis began in March 2011. Israel's leaders and security establishment are...
It is always easy to fight the splinter group and term them as terrorist organizations. These group can not fight the full battle with trained and professional army. In all the cases of this kind of fight the battle line is within the the territory held by these groups. That is why i said that...
Israel would like the Syria to be a divided nation amongst Sunnite, Nuseyris & Christians exactly like the Lebanon. They would never want Muslim Brotherhood to gain power in another bordering country.
Most of the people outside Iran are not aware about the Military & security structure of Iran, for them IRGC & Iranian armed forces are the same. In my view he just wanted to say that the captives are the Iranian Security personnel.
If not then no need to send the pilgrims in worst security...
Might be deception tactic to facilitate them secret agents to intermingle with the pilgrims? Still i think the captives must be interrogated and punished according to law and should not be executed to take revenge from the Iranian Government.
It is very difficult for a sane mind to believe that these Iranian captives were on religious pilgrimage, at this juncture of civil war and ethnic hatred towards shies in general and Iranian in particular.
Exactly, that is why they prefer status quo in the Levant. Any change in Syria, sooner or later will directly impact the existence of the Israeli state.
Both Assad senior and Assad junior advocated resistance against Israel. This slogan was hollow, serving the regime merely as an insurance policy against any demand for freedom and democracy.
As strange as it sounds, everyone in Israel loves Arab dictators. When I say everyone I mean both...
the whole world knows that the announcement of sacking by Al-Assad is a face saving exercise. I think other members of his cabinet will, either defect soon or will be captured by Al-Assad in few days time.
No one doubts that Iranian & Iraqi shies are helping their brother Al-Assad and his clan in Syria. It is highly likely that the captured Men are Iranian revolutionary Guards helping Shabiha to kill Syrian opposition figures. Few days back some militants of Moqtada Al-Sadr were also killed in...
have you heard the name of Sultan Saladin Ayyubi ? read the preliminary history book first. The ethnic division between predominantly Sunnite Turks & Kurds only surfaced after the emergence of of Turkish Republic and the Kemalist were responsible for that menace.