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Hezbollah in world’s court
As Lebanese get beaten up in streets by Hezbollah and Amal militants, including fellow Shiite demonstrators, they find out more and more about the true nature of Iran’s militias.The problem with the Arab mindset is that we tend to forget and forgive too often. Hezbollah is a case in point.When the “Party of God” raised the resistance flag and achieved some victories against Israel that forced it to withdraw from South Lebanon in 2000, we celebrated the achievement and forgot and forgave the party’s crimes since its inception in 1982.Since then, they built their reputation on plain terrorism: Mass murdering Palestinian refugees during the Civil War; bombing public places in Kuwait and attempting to assassinate its Emir (1983); hijacking TWA (1985), and Kuwait airliner (1988), and...
January 28, 2020

Hezbollah in world’s court

Tariq Al-Homayed
Khomeini and 2030
The Iranian leader Ali Khamenei delivered a Friday sermon after a hiatus of eight years, and that was following the killing of Qasem Soleimani by the American forces. In that sermon, he said: “The country’s economy should be strengthened; the dependence on oil must be ended, and the scientific and technological leap should be continued!”The question here is how can Iran end its dependence on oil that it cannot sell at all due to the US sanctions? And how can a country, which officially admitted the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane by mistake, continue with the scientific and technological leap?On the other hand, who launched a vision that not relies on oil, and who asserted that it is an idea of the youth? Simply, the answer is that the vision in the region is the Saudi Vision...
January 24, 2020

Khomeini and 2030

Canadian PM tackling challenges with competence
PRIME Minister Justin Trudeau won re-election in last year’s election, but he lost his majority and must now get help from another party, logically the New Democratic party, if his Liberals are to remain in power.But his main challenge currently comes in the field of foreign affairs — relations with China and with Iran.China and the US, though worlds apart in their political systems and foreign relations, have signed a trade deal that involves the end of tariffs on Chinese goods’ entry into the US in exchange for major agricultural imports from the US into China. Canada fears that the US will supply China with agricultural goods that came from Canada, hurting Canadian farmers.Canada’s relations with China had already suffered when it was caught between the US and China. Canada...
January 22, 2020

Canadian PM tackling challenges with competence

Iran loses two most prominent guys!
OkazThe killing of Qasem Soleimani implies that Iran has lost two most prominent persons. One of them is an Iranian — Soleimani, the leader of the armed militias, which have contributed to Iran’s expansion in the region, through violence and sectarian strife, from Lebanon to Iraq, through Syria and even Yemen and Bahrain.The other person that Iran has lost is former US President Barack Obama. Yes, it is Obama, and this is not an exaggeration. The Iranian supreme leader said in his sermon last Friday that his country could negotiate with anyone, except America.But Iran negotiated with America during the reign of Obama. And there had been telephone conversation between the current Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Obama.I would like to say Iran lost Obama because the former US...
January 22, 2020

Iran loses two most prominent guys!

Act now on Iran, Hezbollah and Daesh or pay later!
It is becoming a common theme for many political analysts to maintain that Iran has helped with the war on Daesh. Fake news! Let’s go back to before the birth of the terrorist organization in 2014. After they led the insurgency against US forces that invaded Iraq in 2003, Al-Qaeda was on the run after the US Army organized a military campaign against them of Sunni tribes from Al-Anbar region in western Iraq. Within a few years, the new force managed to clean all the terrorists out of their midst and handed hundreds of captured jihadists to US forces. Such success did not go down well with Iran and its agent in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (2006-2014), who also held the positions of acting Interior Minister, acting Defense Minister and acting National Security Minister—all at...
January 20, 2020

Act now on Iran, Hezbollah and Daesh or pay later!

Africa's time!
The year 2020 is the start of a new decade in which geographic factors may play an important role. There are undeniably important indications that this decade and the coming era are going to be distinctly African.A few days ago, I returned from South Africa, the most important and largest economy in the continent. The country is the miracle of Mandela, the great man who left behind one of the most important political and human legacies of the modern era. This is reflected positively in the political stability and economic investment in the country which has become a democratic model for the entire continent and a role model for other countries with the tireless work it has undertaken to preserve the independence of the judiciary and the freedom of the media as pillars of institutional...
January 20, 2020

Africa's time!

Erdogan contradicts himself
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made many statements, most of which are contradictory.Take, for example, one of his speeches about his country’s intervention in Libya. On January 14, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency quoted Erdogan as saying, while addressing his party’s parliamentary bloc in Parliament: “We cannot remain idle about what is happening in Libya, and those who stain Libya with blood and fire, are showing at the same time their hatred towards Turkey.”He said that those who ask about the reason for Turkey’s presence in Libya are ignorant of politics and history. “If Turkey hadn’t stepped in, putschist Libyan leader Khalifa Haftar would have occupied Libya, trapping its people in ‘claws of persecution,’” he said.Erdogan also said that Turkey has no...
January 20, 2020

Erdogan contradicts himself

Al-Qaeda, Iran and lies of Nasrallah
Tariq Al-HomayedOkazHassan Nasrallah came out accusing Iraqi Kurds and asked the people of the Gulf to thank Qasem Soleimani for his alleged fighting of terror. But fortunately this coincided with the publication of an important article titled: “The sinister genius of Qasem Soleimani” by the American-Iranian researcher Karim Sadjadpour, in The Wall Street Journal newspaper.The article is significant not only because of its analytical strength, but also because of the fact that it was based on the book titled “The Exile: The stunning inside story of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in flight,” written by investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark.In an article published in “The Atlantic” in November 2017, these authors said that if they had a say then this book...
January 17, 2020

Al-Qaeda, Iran and lies of Nasrallah

US-Iran face-off: The day after!
Suleimani was killed! Two Iraqi military bases, hosting international forces, were shelled. A Ukrainian airliner was shot down! Now what?! A joke going around is that the Indian Prime Minister called President Rouhani demanding an explanation for the Indian-like drama. Another is that the Middle East Final: Turkey vs. Egypt in Libya Stadium. USA vs. Iran in Iraq Stadium. (P.S. The last game is friendly!)Seriously, what is going on? It is easy to understand the tit for tat match starting from the shelling of US bases and siege of its embassy from one side, and the assassination of Soleimani from the other. After that, the movie becomes just weird: Too much action, too little logic. For example, why would the Islamic Revolutionary Guards respond to the killing of a general on the battlefield...
January 14, 2020

US-Iran face-off: The day after!

Hospitals are not a tick on the social calendar
Over the years and in several countries of the Gulf, I have noticed that hospitals often become centers of social gatherings, particularly with the more traditional families. If a family member is admitted, you can be sure that he or she will be entertaining the whole family and friends to boot during their stay.My wife was admitted at a local hospital recently as a result of a bronchial viral infection. The daily visits to cheer her up provided me with a brief snapshot of how hospitals strive for order and how patients and visitors alike seem to take off in the opposite direction.It is at one of the better hospitals in Jeddah, well laid out with soothing and friendly décor. The hospital is not a very large one but seems to be planned with the convenience of patients and visitors alike in...
January 14, 2020

Hospitals are not a tick on the social calendar

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