One tyrannical regime down

January 2003

The month of December witnessed the most important event in the Middle East, the arrest of  Saddam Hussein.

Saddam is the first Arab ruler whose regime was toppled and he was later captured in the past 30 years of the history of the nation. His arrest was received with joy inside Iraq, but prompted anger feelings in the rest of the Arab world where anti-American sentiment, coupled with a rising Islamic fundamentalist tied, is currently on the rise.

Meanwhile, Palestinian-Israeli negotiations look stagnant at the time EU and US officials try to solve the conflict through unwanted resettlement of Palestinian refugees in their host countries.