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The Okaz dialogue
By Humoud Abu TalibOkazThe direct, frank and transparent dialogue between the citizen and official differs from the cold and mummified dialogues via replies by the Public Relations administrations, whose replies are usually vague and beat about the bush, as they do not delve directly into the issues raised and are of concern to the society.Here, we have two types of officials.The first type are those who are capable of shouldering the responsibility of facing the public and the courage to open files (discuss and tackle any dossiers, issues), answer all the questions without any reservations or “keeping doors open”.Meanwhile, the second type of officials is of those who are reluctant to face the public. They always try to evade coming face-to-face with the public. It suffices them to...
January 08, 2020

The Okaz dialogue

History of Iranian-American confrontation!
Many Arab leftists and remnants of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab nationalism movement are talking about a secret alliance between Washington and Tehran.Of course, they can only attempt to convince those who are easily fooled that the US is coordinating with Iran to swallow the region and that all that we are seeing is merely a conspiracy.This is despite the fact that events of the past 40 years have proved that Iran and the US have moved in two separate directions, except during the Obama era.The important question is: Does Iran actually want enmity with the US? Of course, not!Iran is dying to establish close ties with Washington, which is rejecting this for historical reasons and the bloodshed between them that cannot be forgotten.Otherwise, who killed Al-Qaeda members and passed...
January 07, 2020

History of Iranian-American confrontation!

Assassinating Soleimani: The rights and wrongs!
My friend was adamant. “Assassinating Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad was an assault on Iraqi sovereignty. If we accept the right of mighty America to decide who lives or dies without due process in a court of law, then we cannot object to any future attack against anyone we regard innocent. I believe the man was guilty of horrendous crimes.I believe he was a worse terrorist than Bin Laden and Baghdadi combined. However, I also believe in the rule of law. He should have been apprehended, handed over to the International Court of Justice, shown evidence of his crimes and given the right to defend himself. If proven guilty, he should have been punished according to international law and norms,” he contended.My friend is not alone in this view. In an ideal world and normal circumstances, I...
January 07, 2020

Assassinating Soleimani: The rights and wrongs!

Iran after Soleimani
OkazThe liquidation of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, in an American drone attack is to be considered as a dramatic shift in the rules of military confrontation between Washington and Tehran. It was, in part, a response to safeguard the dignity of the American army and the American arms, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards shot down the American MQ-4C Triton over the Strait of Hormuz last June.The rules of confrontation may have changed, specifically after the red line was crossed with the killing of an American contractor at an international coalition base near Kirkuk. US President Donald Trump did not respond to Iran’s shooting down of the American plane, on the pretext that there were no American victims, and that the proposed response would be exceeding...
January 06, 2020

Iran after Soleimani

The Unnerving CAA: Literal analysis!
Safi H. JannatyThe Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) has rightly brought people from all walks of life to record their protest over the divisive policies and biased politics of the BJP government. Regardless of the faith one follows or the religion one practices or the ideology one believes in, a plain reading of the Act would make one wonder how India, a role model of secularism and diversity, could legislate a law that is full of the seeds of discrimination and bias.At the first instance, being such a critical move poised to fundamentally alter the essence and spirit of the Constitution, it was a gross error on the part of the government in not explaining the need, basis and objectives of their proposal to the public in order to gauge their mood before even deliberating on the...
January 06, 2020

The Unnerving CAA: Literal analysis!

How do you solve a problem like plastic?
Jess LosariaRemember that floating plastic bag scene from the movie American Beauty? Ricky Fitts, the character who shot the footage in the film, was re-watching it with a companion and narrates to her that the imagery evoked feelings in him that there was so much beauty in the world that his poor heart couldn’t take it.I’m sorry, but how can you really equate beauty with a piece of trash that has been infamous for polluting our oceans for decades? No one can deny the important role of plastic in our lives – we use it to pack our kids’ food in lunchboxes, to carry groceries and even to build homes – but it makes you wonder if this is worth making our own planet potentially uninhabitable.Just last year, only weeks apart, the carcass of a pilot whale and the limp dying body of a...
January 06, 2020

How do you solve a problem like plastic?

The Arab autumn tweets!
OkazI believe in the principle of giving others a second chance, and when it comes to the relations between citizens and their nation, of giving them a third and even a fourth chance.Every human being can be influenced by ideas, information and pressures that form opinions and convictions. However, one’s position with regard to these influencing factors might change. There may also be a change in the influencing factors, such as the correcting of information, or the revealing of new facts.Therefore, we must not hold a person captive to his previous stance against his nation, without taking into consideration his current stance.We must also differentiate between objective criticism and destructive criticism, between those seeking to introduce reform and those seeking to satisfy their own...
January 06, 2020

The Arab autumn tweets!

World’s policeman wakes up from coma
By Hani Al-DhahiriOkazAround 13 years ago, precisely in January 2007, an American military officer lifted his hand, in the last moment, from pressing the button to launch a missile toward a vehicle somewhere in northern Iraq.The vehicle was carrying Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force. What prompted the officer, who was tasked with a secret operation, to backtrack from eliminating him was an urgent order from his command, which found that Washington would avert the political fallouts by the cancelation of the operation and instead decided to continue surveillance on him.This alarming information was contained in an earlier article written in The New York Times by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, retired US commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, who had been assigned with the...
January 05, 2020

World’s policeman wakes up from coma

What after Soleimani?
Exactly as the US Defense Secretary Mark Esper had said last Thursday, “the game has changed”.Following the attack on an Iraqi base by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias in Iraq, where American troops were stationed, the US retaliated, and the American retaliatory raid resulted in the death of 25 of the terrorists.It was an operation that concluded with the American drone attack leading to the elimination of the senior Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani.Undoubtedly, the elimination of Soleimani has been carried out in line with the direct orders of US President Trump. It marks a qualitative change in the American administration’s policy and confirms the capability of American intelligence to infiltrate Iranian defenses and the Iranian-backed terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria,...
January 03, 2020

What after Soleimani?

Turkey sending troops to Libya
THERE seems little doubt that Turkey’s parliament, dominated as it is by supporters of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will rubber stamp his plan to send troops to fight in Libya alongside the militias of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Serraj. The GNA which controls the area around Tripoli, the capital in the West of the country is currently trying to fight off an assault by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Hafter, who draws his legitimacy from the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk in the East. This is the parliament that was elected in 2014 and then driven from Tripoli by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), most of whose candidates had been trounced at the polls.It remains a mystery that the United Nations and the international...
January 02, 2020

Turkey sending troops to Libya

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