Nicola Nasser
Nicola Nasser is a freelance veteran Arab journalist in Kuwait, Jordan, UAE and Palestine. He is based in Birzeit, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
Since 1982 he worked as a professional bilingual journalist (editor-in-chief, chief editor, managing editor, editor, reporter, interviewer, media coordinator, translator, columnist and editorial writer) of Arabic and English print and electronic media.
As a bilingual (Arabic-English) translator he translated and co-translated a few books that were published in Beirut and Amman.
He can be contacted at: nicolanasser@yahoo.com
Since 1982 he worked as a professional bilingual journalist (editor-in-chief, chief editor, managing editor, editor, reporter, interviewer, media coordinator, translator, columnist and editorial writer) of Arabic and English print and electronic media.
As a bilingual (Arabic-English) translator he translated and co-translated a few books that were published in Beirut and Amman.
He can be contacted at: nicolanasser@yahoo.com
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Articles by Nicola Nasser
October 16, 2009
Negotiating the U.S. exit strategy with al-Baath and the Iraqi resistance, the real enemy, could prove the only viable way out of Iraq for the United States
October 10, 2009
Palestinian anti – Americanism is the product of U.S. foreign policies in the region.
September 26, 2009
For too long now the Middle East has been paying in blood for U.S. experimental and contradictory foreign policies
July 02, 2009
Israeli analyst M.J. Rosenberg wrote on June 19: Acceptance of Israel as a "Jewish state" is a non-starter at this point. And Netanyahu knows it. If that is a precondition for negotiations, there will be no negotiations.
May 09, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to be the third pontiff to visit the Holy Land from 8 – 15 May, following in the footsteps of Paul VI in 1964 and John Paul II in 2000, on a mission officially described as a "pilgrimage" and one of "peace and reconciliation."
However, the Pope will be stepping...
May 03, 2009
Holy See is determined to rule out Gaza from the Pope´s itinerary
March 18, 2009
Obama´s administration, if it doesn´t intend to change course, would do peace and history a great favor by disengagement from the conflict to pave the way for a more balanced international involvement that would base a political settlement thereof on the resolutions of the United Nations legitimacy, if not on justice.
February 12, 2009
With Benjamin Netanyahu poised for premiership and Avigdor Lieberman, leader of a "racist and fascist" party (as condemned by Talia Sasson of the Merez party) very well positioned to be the king or queen maker of the next ruling coalition, the Palestinian people and the whole region will have to brace as from next March for an Israeli government of war.
February 03, 2009
The US not only fully supports Israel on this; it is open about using the reconstruction process to help the PA reassert its authority and influence in Gaza.
January 31, 2009
Israeli "Cast Lead," against the Palestinian Gaza Strip was not a reaction but a premeditated long planned scheme that found in the change of guards in Washington D.C. an excellent timing
December 28, 2008
When we place UN Security Council Resolution 1850 in its context, we can better appreciate how generous a gift Bush left Israel.
December 04, 2008
PLO commitment to the Annapolis understandings was a milestone that vindicated Hamas fears and accusations that Abbas was leading and pursuing an older political coup d´etat to deprive the Islamic movement from its electoral victory
December 02, 2008
The U.S. - hosted Middle East conference in Annapolis on November 27, 2007 failed to deliver on its promises to solve the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. It was a non-starter because it built on Palestinian division.
September 22, 2008
For the first time, since the U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on November 27 last year re-launched the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations, which were interrupted by the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 after the collapse of the Camp David trilateral summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out for ...
September 15, 2008
For the first time, since the U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on November 27 last year re-launched the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations, which were interrupted by the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 after the collapse of the Camp David trilateral summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out for ...
August 06, 2008
Jerusalem, the casus belli of the Palestinian national struggle of liberation and the rallying cry of the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, was recently described as becoming "a terror hub," a "hotbed" of violent Palestinian neighborhoods and as being "encircled" by "...
June 05, 2008
Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy, Tactics of Resistance
By Nicola Nasser*
For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a...
June 01, 2008
By Nicola Nasser*
Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza´s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressiv...
April 05, 2007
Bracing for 2008 presidential election, US Democrats in opposition and the ruling Republicans have embroiled the American public in a political crisis between the executive and legislative powers over deadlines for combat operations in Iraq that could develop into a constitutional showdown, but for ...
April 11, 2007
The Israeli 40-year old military occupation and the more than a year old economic siege are eroding the national existence of Palestinians and squeezing the Palestinian leadership into an almost impossible mission of securing law and order by practically renewing an old plan thwarted because, in the...
November 11, 2007
Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast almost uncontested -- after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw Pact -- outside the mandate designated by its statute into the Arab Middle East as well as into the Caspi...
September 25, 2007
Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the Israeli government, a mission which nonetheless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is taking seriously, ag...
September 25, 2007
The inter-Palestinian war of words and the mutual violations of the freedom of press and expression by the Hamas - led government of Ismael Haniyyeh in the Gaza Strip and the Fatah – led government of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank have presented Israel with its biggest propaganda prize that is overs...
August 13, 2007
The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip are unmercifully trespassing humanitarian borders there; they perceive in the collapsing economy of the Medit...
August 01, 2007
Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab – Israeli conflict or India; however several factors are ...