The repeated invasion, incitement and hatred against Israel, starting from 1948 also made it an obligation for Israel to defend itself. Yet, unlike Israel's disgruntled neighbours, Israel actually compromised and gave up Sinai and other conquered territories in return for a peace agreement. It...
This is the irrational hatred for Israel among the Arab population. There is a peace treaty among the two countries. King Hussein, the father of the current King Abdullah, had close relationships with several Israeli politicians. According to the rumors, during the 30 years prior to 1994, King...
Why not Iran, India and Pakistan all of them included in SCO?
Sure, there is this Kashmir dispute. But what is the big hurdle in solving this petty land dispute? USSR and China had far larger border disputes but they were solved peacefully with both sides respecting them. This is one reason...
I will be direct and to-the-point in this post. Apologies in advance if this offends anybody.
Very true. Ironically, many radical Islamist members tend to be from infidel, secular west. Enjoying the society and community of "infidelity" while being very vocal in anti-western, radical terrorist...
Does not matter. Ground realities will stand no matter what is anybody's (biased) opinion whatsoever.
Very lame excuse. Anyway, whatever floats your boat.
As usual, you overlooked in your haste.
The left most column's rankings are for HDI, in which Iran ranks much higher than Turkey or pakistan for that matter, indicating a much higher standard of living in Iran compared to the other two.
Gender Inquality index ranking is in the 3rd column...
Why the hate for Kemalists in Turkey? Mustafa Kemal was a great leader for Turkish nation. He converted Turkey into a secular, democratic and tolerant state. He cleansed religious bigotry in Turkey. He lead the Turkish war of independence from Greece and other Allied forces as well as the...
Arab writers withdraw from U.S. book over publisher's refusal to remove Israeli contributions
Planned publication by Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas halted after directors refuse to single out Israeli authors.
An anthology of women's writing in the Middle...
Israel 'fitting nuclear arms on subs'
BERLIN Israel is arming submarines supplied and largely financed by Germany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, influential German news weekly Der Spiegel reports in its issue to be published Monday.
The magazine said in a cover story likely to...
I think more transparency should be ensured in drone strikes. Rather than unilateral strikes, US could cooperate with Pakistan. Get intel from pakistani officials and target those terrorists via drone attacks.
At present, we do not know if these drone attacks are killing terrorists or...
Unfortunately, this mentality seems to be widespread. If you are a fundamentalist, anti-western, violent Muslim, you are "good". If you are a so-called "moderate", you are infidel or a non muslim.
I for one cannot fathom how people in pakistan held protests in support for Osama.
This...
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Table4_reprint.pdf
If you are a girl, you'd be better off in Iran than pakistan (of course, you are living in Canada so you may not realize this). This is leaving out the economic aspect.
Now please do not say this is a Zionist propaganda against pakistan!