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Safty: Measuring ‘Success’ in Iraq
Znet Article, April, 07 2008
Adel Safty
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The fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq should have been an occasion for the chief war planners in the Bush administration to pause and soberly reflect on the fiasco that the Iraq war had become.
Safty: The Candidates and Israel
Znet Article, March, 29 2008
Adel Safty
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As Israel intensified its collective punishment of the Palestinians, and launched its latest assault on Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended negotiations with the Israelis earlier this month...
Safty: Iraq & the Candidates
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Adel Safty
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As the US presidential race intensifies, it is becoming clear that the campaigns of the leading candidates are largely defined by two absences: the absence of a fundamentally different Democratic approach to the war from that of the Bush administr...
Safty: Kosovo And The World Order
Znet Article, February, 26 2008
Adel Safty
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The proclamation of Kosovo’s independence last week and the international community reactions to it expose the tensions inherent in the present world order.
Safty: Israel’s Report on the Lebanon War: Missed Opportunity
Znet Article, February, 11 2008
Adel Safty
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The Israeli Commission which investigated the 2006 Lebanon war handed down its final report last month. Retired Judge Eliyahu Winograd, who headed the Commission, told a press conference in Jerusalem in late January that the war was a “major misse...
Safty: The Annapolis Spirit in Action
Znet Article, January, 30 2008
Adel Safty
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Annapolis confirmed the logic of war because American and Israeli positions indicated that...
Safty: Oil and the Looming Threat to Iraq
Znet Article, January, 21 2008
Adel Safty
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Access to and control of Middle East oil has figured prominently in the strategic thinking of American policy makers. In the Bush administration, State Department policy planners discussed scenarios for taking over by force the oilfields of the Mi...
Safty: Annapolis: The Morning After
Znet Article, December, 20 2007
Adel Safty
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As expected the Annapolis meeting did not address the substantive issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians and Israelis expected different things from Annapolis and not surprisingly the Israeli vision triumphed.
Safty: Clouded Horizons for Palestine
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Adel Safty
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Bush refused to meet with the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and endorsed the self-serving Israeli claim that the Israelis could not find a serious Palestinian partner for peace.
Safty: In their own Words: Dehumanizing the Iraqi people
Znet Article, October, 11 2007
Adel Safty
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In their own Words: Dehumanizing the Iraqi people
Safty: Extraordinary Rendition Exposed Again
Znet Article, August, 31 2007
Adel Safty
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Extraordinary Rendition Exposed Again
Safty: The Politics of Fear
Znet Article, August, 14 2007
Adel Safty
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The Politics of Fear
Safty: The Politics of Power: Truman and Bush
Znet Article, August, 02 2007
Adel Safty
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Safty: The Empire Strikes First: Denouncing the Bush Doctrine
Znet Article, May, 23 2007
Adel Safty
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The Empire Strikes First: Denouncing the Bush Doctrine
Safty: The Demonstration Effect in Iraq
Znet Article, April, 28 2007
Adel Safty
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The Demonstration Effect in Iraq
Safty: Why Rice Will Fail in the Middle East
Znet Article, April, 13 2007
Adel Safty
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By her own recent admission, Secretary of State Rice’...
Safty: Information Revolution and Democracy
Znet Article, April, 01 2007
Adel Safty
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Popular culture in the United States recently raised the issue of the impact of the information and communication revolution on d...
Safty: Displaced and Impoverished
Znet Article, March, 18 2007
Adel Safty
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Displaced and Impoverished
Safty: Suffer the Children
Znet Article, February, 28 2007
Adel Safty
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Recent UN reports highlighted the urgent need to protect children from poverty, poor health, and child labor. Although the Convention on the Right of the Children has been ratified by 192 countries, children continue to suffer massive abuses of ri...
Safty: A Surge of Stubbornness
Znet Article, February, 16 2007
Adel Safty
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One of the hallmarks of the Bush administration has been its uncanny ability to confuse stubbornness with leadership. Bush’s response to his repeated failures in Iraq has been to stubbornly refuse to admit the obvious reality. When late la...
Safty: Changing American-Israeli Plans to Strike Iran
Znet Article, January, 19 2007
Adel Safty
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Changing American-Israeli Plans to Strike Iran
Safty: Iraq: It is the Occupation Stupid
Znet Article, January, 04 2007
Adel Safty
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Iraq: It is the Occupation Stupid
Safty: Palestine
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Adel Safty
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American influential opinion makers, who generally managed to remain indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people, are finding that ignoring Palestine is getting harder everyday. This is largely the result, not of a fundamental change in ...
Safty: The Crisis of Global Institutional Leadership
Znet Article, October, 02 2006
Adel Safty
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Throughout history, prophets and empires provided different conceptions of leadership: one relied mainly on moral authority, the other principally on sheer physical force. One called for peace among peoples, the other thrived by exercising control...
Safty: The Failure of Total War against Palestine and Lebanon
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Adel Safty
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Total War The celebrated 19th century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz described attacks on the enemy’s territory, property and citizens as total war. With the horrors of World War II, total war became associated with war crimes. The...
Safty: The Necessity of Conflict and the Primacy of Force in Zionist Thought
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
Adel Safty
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The ferocity of the Israeli war against the people of Lebanon and the Palestinian people, and it is a war against peoples rather than armies or guerrilla groups, is embedded in strategic orientations and founded on basic tenets of Zionist thought....
Safty: The Origins of the Present American Unilateralism
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
Adel Safty
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US President Bush justified the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and his support for the Israeli war against Lebanon and the Palestinian people in terms of his so-called war on terror. Observers and commentators usually describe the current confro...
Safty: Bush's Thinking Masters
Znet Article, July, 06 2006
Adel Safty
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The American fascist ideologist Lawrence Dennis argued in the 1930s that fascism was a worldview that could be imposed by a movement, which did not have to really understand the fascist idea. In trying to comprehend the foundations of the Bush ide...
