Tag: Israel
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Dr. Abdella AlNafisi’s Thirty-year Sleep
By the end of the 1990s, the Islamist wave had reached its ebb. In 1988 Iraq invaded Kuwait and unleashed disaster. The USA arrayed its arsenal, and allies launched Desert Storm to reverse Saddam’s invasion. That heralded the beginning of a long, unstable era for the Middle East and beyond. In 1989 Sudan’s Islamist National
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EL AL Pilots And African Refugees And Asylum Seekers
Israeli pilots refused to take part in “the illegal and inhumane deportations of African refugees and asylum seekers from Israel. Pilots of EL AL, the Israeli national carrier refuse to cooperate with the deportations of refugees and asylum seekers who were not provided with proper and legal vetting of their claims. For more than a
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Eritrean Refugees in Israel and Reverse Operation Moses
on January 17, 2018, Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers and activist staged a mock slave auction outside the Knesset in Jerusalem to protest Israeli plans to deport them back to the country they escaped from or to third countries. While Israel offered Rwanda and Uganda to receive the asylees at $3500 per person, Libyan Militias and
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Cold War Ended, Hot War Continues
The 20th century is very much defined by the cold war that continued from 1947 to 1991. For Eritreans however, that period was not cold at all, it was a never-ending cycle of violence, bloodshed and social displacement. In 1991 the general mood was optimistic as the end of the cold war introduced alluring terms like