Link TV's Middle East analyst and award-winning producer, Jamal Dajani, gives his weekly unique perspective and insight on major newsworthy stories. http://www.linktv.org/programs/MIR en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:52:36 -0800 http://www.linktv.org/video/5028 bf8dd8c68d02e161c28dc9ea139d4784 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: February 5, 2010) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warns of "apartheid" if Israel does not achieve peace with the Palestinians. Is the "two-state solution" dead? And would Israelis & Palestinians agree to binational coexistence? <br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/israel-occupation-or-apar_b_450817.html">Huffington Post</a><br />Poll on <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/5/834315/-Israel:-Occupation-or-Apartheid">Daily Kos</a></p> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, Apartheid, David Michaelis, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jamal Dajani, Jimmy Carter, Meron Benvenisti, Middle East, Palestine, West Bank, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4956 d80b7040b773199015de6d3b4293c8ff <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: January 22, 2010) Middle Eastern TV networks cover Haiti's earthquake with a twist. Did Arab countries come to the aid of Haiti? And why did Israel and the US get criticized? <br /><br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/haiti-a-view-from-the-mid_b_432859.html">Huffington Post</a><br />How to <a href="http://www.linktv.org/humanitariandisasters?hm">HELP HAITI</a></p> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Mir, Mosaic, Linktv, Jamal Dajani, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Arab Media, Cnn, Gaza, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Hamas, Iraq, Israel, Media, Middle East, Port-Au-Prince, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4930 aba22f748b1a6dff75bda4fd1ee9fe07 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: January 15, 2010) A bomb explodes near an Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan. Al-Qaeda assassinates a Jordanian intelligence officer. Jordanian Islamists are fighting in Afghanistan. <br />Are Jordanian intelligence agencies good enough to fight al-Qaeda? <br />And why do Jordanian opposition groups want the government to drop its pro-America stance?<br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/jordan-al-qaeda-hotbed_b_424518.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Mir, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Cia , Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al Balawi , Israel , Jordan , Khost Province , Mukhabarat , Pakistan , Sharif Ali Bin Zeid , Terrorism , Zarqa , World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4904 d5036c64412973d610202be8dce2b82a <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: January 8, 2010) A Nigerian student succeeds in boarding a US airliner with explosives. A Jordanian doctor kills seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan. <br />Has al-Qaeda changed its tactics? And will new security measures at airports prevent a future attack?<br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/cia-lost-in-translation_b_415970.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Abdullah Asieri, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Arab, Barack Obama, Cia, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al Balawi, Jordan, Middle East, Muslim, Nigeria, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, Saud Arabia, Terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, War On Terror, Yemen, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4774 8c5ebe834bb61a2e5ab8ef38f8d940f3 Back in October, when Barack Obama was announced as the surprise winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the media went into overdrive. Outlets across the political spectrum were united, for a change, but mostly in their bemusement at how a new leader of a country in the middle of two wars could win such a prestigious award for peace. Mosaic's producer Jamal Dajani appears on Al Jazeera's Listening Post program, which examines round two of the coverage: when Obama flew to Norway to accept the accolade and deliver a speech, a message about how a just war could be fought in order to preserve peace. The report looks at the Nobel ceremony and the coverage of a speech that, even for a politician renowned for his eloquence, was a tall order. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Mosaic Intelligence Report, MIR, Jamal Dajani, Barack Obama, Al Jazeera English, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4724 dd03de08bfdff4d8ab01117276564cc7 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: December 4, 2009) President Obama orders 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Why is Karzai talking to the Taliban? And will the US and its allies find Osama bin Laden?<br /><br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/obamas-surge-the-real-rea_b_380035.html">Huffington Post<br /></a>Is Pres. Obama doing the right thing on Afghanistan?  <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/4/810949/-Obamas-Surge:-The-Real-Reason">POLL</a></p> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Al Qaeda, Asif Ali Zardari, Barack Obama, Obama Afghanistan, Pakistan, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Terrorism, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4695 5034a5d62f91942d2a7aeaf527dfe111 Jamal Dajani appears on Al Jazeera English's Listening Post in a look at the media coverage of new settlement building in Israel. In any other country or territory the approval for building 900 new housing units would be seen as a routine piece of municipal administrative paperwork and not a news story. But when the municipality involved is Jerusalem, and the land the Israelis are building on is Palestinian, those housing units become an illegal settlement and consequently make the headlines. This particular stroke of an Israeli administrator's pen has been interpreted by the global news media as a very public rebuff, by the Netanyahu government, of the Obama Administration's efforts to restart peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The international media's spotlight has been fully on a place called Gilo which most news outlets call a settlement, but others, primarily Israeli and American, say is just a disputed neighborhood. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Jamal Dajani, Settlements, Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem, Gilo, Al Jazeera English, Listening Post, Netanyahu, Obama, Media, Mosaic Intelligence Report, MIR Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4661 f621585df244e9596dc70a39b579efb1 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: November 20, 2009) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that he won't seek a second term. Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to stop settlement building in Jerusalem. Can peace talks be revived between the Palestinians and Israelis? And is Israel talking to Hamas?</p><p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/palestine-1001-nights_b_365169.html">Huffington Post</a><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/20/143622/66">POLL</a></p><p> </p> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilo, Israel, Israeli Settlement, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jamal Dajani, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Mofaz, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Road Map, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4641 5ffaa9f5182c2a36843f438bb1fdbdea <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: November 13, 2009) Saudi Arabia uses fighter jets against Yemeni Houthi rebels. Both Yemen and Saudi Arabia accuse Iran of arming the rebels. <br /><br />Why did Arab satellite carriers drop Iran's Al Alam TV? And will the war of proxies lead to a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran?<br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/the-saudi-iranian-neo-col_b_356699.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Al Alam Tv, Al-Alam-Tv, Cold War, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran, Jamal Dajani, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4564 75429d136f65d2d6168b9b6c5f6ec951 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 29, 2009) Election run-off is few days away in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai's brother is on the CIA's payroll. Should Obama send more troops to Afghanistan? And can the Taliban be defeated? <br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/taliban-if-you-cant-beat_b_338320.html">Huffington Post</a><br />Related: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/afghanistan-fraud-opium-a_b_331468.html">Fraud, Opium, and Taliban</a></p> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Barack Obama, Cia, Hamid Karzai, Iraq War, Opium, Taliban, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4523 8620005ac78d8257435d490058c643dd <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 23, 2009) Afghanistan's recent election was hailed as an example of "democracy." But more than one million ballots were discounted due to fraud. Why isn't Karzai being held responsible for this blatant act of election fraud? <br />And is Afghanistan the "good" war?<br /><br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/afghanistan-fraud-opium-a_b_331468.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Nato, Opium, Taliban, Terrorism, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4543 da974f5eba1948690c83e9c3b43ffd87 <p>Steve Clemons, director of foreign policy programs at the New America Institute in Washington, conducted an exclusive interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Damascus. Questions ranged from the Goldstone Report to the rift between the Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah. One example of the many thought provoking questions Clemons asks Meshal in the interview:</p><p>Clemons: [Are you] a Palestinian patriot or a Muslim patriot? Obviously from an American perspective too many Americans look at...Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, Hamas and they say they are all al-Qaeda, which I know is wrong but I would like to hear how you characterize this.</p><p>Meshal: Hamas is a movement of national liberation... We adopt the Islamic thought, because we are part of [a] region that is Arab and Muslim. This is a normal thing, just like when there is a movement in Europe it is Christian. We are a liberation movement but we are an Islamic movement too because we are part of this region naturally.</p><p>This video is courtesy of <a href="http://www.newamerica.net/people/steven_clemons" target="_blank">Steve Clemons</a> and the <a href="http://palestinenote.com/cs/about.aspx" target="_blank">Palestine Note</a>.</p> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Hamas, Khaled Meshal, Steve Clemons, Palestine, Palestinian, Goldstone Report, Fatah, Palestine Note, New America Institute, Muslim, Islam, Mosaic, MIR, Mosaic Intelligence Report Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4482 cc8b6a16d74a2462a1be02e79a57fb95 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 16, 2009) A violent Israeli incursion is an unlikely setting for a love story. But that is just what's in Turkey's drama series, Ayrilik. <br />Why is this Turkish show so popular in the Middle East? And will Israel lose its Turkish ally?</p><p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.linktv.org/mosaic/mir/MIR20091016/israel-turkey-no-tv-drama">Huffington Post</a><br />The Goldstone Report Saga <a href="http://www.linktv.org/mosaic/mir/MIR20091015/the-goldstone-report-saga">VIDEO</a></p> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Mir, Linktv, Mosaic, jamal Dajani, Avigador Lieberman, Ayrilik, Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, Operation Cast Lead, Palestine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shimon Peres, Television, Trt, Turkey, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4454 80c94c09453dfe07681fde78e769353f <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 9, 2009) Palestinians call for the resignation of President Mahmoud Abbas. Why is he being called a traitor? And will he survive the storm? Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/the-vichy-government-of-p_b_315103.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Mir, Mosaic, Jamal Dajani, Al Jazeera, Fatah, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Territories, United Nations, Vichy Government, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/video/4430 ce052ea95dfe35291c6fa7fcf8819492 <p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 2, 2009) Iran reveals its new secret nuclear plant. The IAEA demands immediate access. Will Iran stop its uranium enrichment program? And will Israel attack Iran? <br /><br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/israel-vs-iran-the-writin_b_307668.html">Huffington Post</a></p> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 mir, linktv, mosaic, jamal dajani, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iraq War, Israel, Israel Airstrikes, Middle East, Qom, Saudi Arabia, Uranium Enrichment, World News Link Media, Inc. http://www.linktv.org/rss/linktv_rss.gif http://www.linktv.org/programs/MIR