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Who Will Be Left Out in Elections?

Two consequential elections need to be watched in Israel and the US on Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, 2026 respectively. The Israeli elections are the first after Hamas took Israelis hostage in 2023- and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by flattening Gaza and killing thousands of Palestinians. For Israeli Jews, the utmost priority is electing a government that will protect them from such attacks. They will vote for either the right wing Likud party, led by Netanyahu or the rightist centrist Yashar party led by Gadi Eisenkot, with both parties opposed to a Palestinian state. Here voting by Arab Palestinians could make the difference. Then it will be time for Americans to head to mid-term polls, Nov. 3, where Trump has asked people to pretend he is on the ballot. That does not bode well for Republicans, who are being challenged by Democrats in traditionally Red states like Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, Alaska and Kansas

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American embassy shift

Published : June 12, 2018

https://www.dawn.com/news/1413574

THE Trump administration’s decision to shift the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last month could not have come at a worse time for the Arab-Israeli conflict. In retrospect, even some Israeli politicians have said that the US should not have shifted their embassy on the anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ — the period the Palestinians allege their land was forcibly annexed by Israel 70 years ago.

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A Future Veiled in False Hopes

Published Date: November 10, 2001- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/11/11/a-future-veiled-in-false-hopes/a8f6d6a9-1c6f-4554-88a6-07497d96ff2e/

Twelve years ago, I was astonished by what I found on a trip from my native Pakistan to Afghanistan. I couldn’t have imagined a neighboring Muslim country with so many women in public places. Each morning, the Afghan capital was abuzz with young professionals on their way to work, most dressed in Western clothes and some even in miniskirts and high heels as they vied with their fashion-conscious counterparts in Paris.

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Missing Links

There’s Much More To Daniel Pearl’s Murder Than Meets the Eye

Published Date: March 10, 2002– https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/03/10/missing-links/e1bf1bf4-162e-4f27-85c4-fcd4bda4d00b/

AMHERST, Mass. — Nine days ago there was an alarming indication of upheaval in Pakistan — a crackdown on the press. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government pressured the owner of an influential English language newspaper, the News, to fire four journalists. One of them, the paper’s editor, Shaheen Sehbai, said the trouble started after his newspaper reported a link between the prime suspect in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and recent attacks on the Indian parliament in Delhi and in the Kashmiri capital, Srinagar. When Sehbai asked the paper’s owner to identify who wanted to sack them, Sehbai said he was told to see officials at the ISI, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Instead he resigned and left for the United States.

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Revealing a Gap Between The Leaders and the People

Published Date: June 1, 2002- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/06/02/revealing-a-gap-between-the-leaders-and-the-people/d57efb8d-e4f6-48c7-8554-759d48078784/

WESTFIELD, Mass.

A group of women from India and Pakistan who came here for a peace conference in April returned home to find their countries on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. One of the delegates wrote back to me about the “horrific atmosphere of war,” which can be averted, she said, only through “sheer good luck.”

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