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Trump and Modi
As theater it was outstanding. As politics, it was a great deal more doubtful. Some 50,000 Texans crammed into a Houston stadium as President Donald Trump paraded with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an event billed as “Howdy Modi!”. Trump and his guest were given a rousing welcome.Both leaders laid on the compliments to each other with a trowel. Trump said how thrilled he was to be in Texas with one of America’s “greatest, most devoted and most loyal friends”. Modi reciprocated saying of Trump: “From CEO to commander-in-chief, from boardrooms to the Oval Office, from studios to the global stage... he has left a lasting impact everywhere”.Pundits commented that this mutual backslapping benefited both leaders. Trump wants to win the Indian vote in next year’s...
September 25, 2019

Trump and Modi

A child trying to do a man’s job
The world’s climate is changing. Of this there can be no doubt. The key question is whether this increasingly dramatic shift is happening entirely because of man-made activities or is, by and large, part and parcel of a meteorological cycle that has always been happening. There is an argument that pollution created by human activities has contributed to climate change. But the concept that the seemingly radical changes to our weather are entirely due to the effusion of “greenhouse” gases is surely wrong.It is perhaps evidence of the dubiousness of this analysis that it is being championed by a sixteen year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg who held the UN climate change summit in thrall as she blasted politicians for their failure to act to reverse the phenomenon. Ms. Thunberg is an...
September 24, 2019

A child trying to do a man’s job

Israel’s murderous intent
The Israelis are known for breaking every international convention in their quest to silence those they perceive to be a threat to their dream of the Zionist control of Palestinian land. In the past, they have carried out many assassinations of Arab and non-Arab figures sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.Deep within the bowels of the Mossad and the existing machinery of the Israeli government, there are also elements that believe that even heads of state should not be immune from their policy of selected target assassinations.A perfect example of such well-hidden secrets came to light several years ago during Obama’s presidency when Andrew Adler, owner-publisher of the US-based Atlanta Jewish Times, suggested that Israel may have considered that someday they would have to “order a...
September 24, 2019

Israel’s murderous intent

Egypt’s MB prisoners seek release
In the riots that followed the 2013 fall of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, dozens of policemen and many civilians were murdered and Coptic churches torched. The new government of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi acted firmly to suppress the violence. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members arrested and convicted for their part in the bloody rampages were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.Earlier this month the government received a petition from 1,500 of these prisoners, who described themselves as “junior members” of the Brotherhood. Saying they wanted to end their “ordeal”, they sought to be released in return for promises to abandon the MB, play no further role in politics and give up any religious role in the country. They even offered to pay $5,000 each to end their...
September 24, 2019

Egypt’s MB prisoners seek release

It's happening
by Anas Alyusuf“All success stories start with a vision, and successful visions are based on strong pillars.” Today Saudi Arabia, while marking its 89th National Day, can say with pride and confidence that change is visible. And “It’s happening”.The seamless change emphasizes pride in our glorious past, reliance in a visionary leadership that has built a strong present and confidence in the vision of the nation’s future with empowerment of society as the bulwark of prosperity.Vision and the pillars to prop up that vision are the keys on which Saudi Vision 2030 is built. And once set in motion, the empowered are now powering the wheels of success in Saudi Arabia.The Kingdom is replete with blessings and untapped opportunities, and it was from this perspective that Crown Prince...
September 23, 2019

It's happening

Saudi Arabia: A nation on the move
Saudi National Day is a remarkable occasion in which citizens emphasize the concepts of national unity, peace and coexistence among different levels of society in order to celebrate the Kingdom’s development and express their sentiments for the nation’s leadership.Saudi Arabia has long been recognized as a powerhouse in the Middle East and nowadays it is undergoing a remarkable transformation led by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, through empowering future generations with education and security as well as guaranteeing them their rights. The significance of National Day is to remind the younger generation of all the achievements made by their predecessors, and to instill the values of...
September 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia: A nation on the move

Vision 2030: Our children must be ready to lead
Our children’s voices will be heard perhaps louder than any other generation Saudi Arabia has produced before - but how will they be perceived in business, in society and around the globe?And more importantly, how will we prepare our daughters, as well as our sons, to help shape and lead the country of the future?I think these are the key questions we need to ask ourselves as we prepare for a seismic shift, a massive change in how we live our lives, one, as a Saudi woman, I must admit, I never thought I’d experience.We need to prepare our children to be open-minded, accepting of other cultures and views and they must obtain the skills and qualifications that will help them to be the best they can be and the Kingdom the true world leader it aspires to become.The country will become...
September 23, 2019

Vision 2030: Our children must be ready to lead

West and East do not meet?!
With the world’s ongoing economic openness to Asia, some may think that there would be more curiosity on the part of those in our region about the intellectual and cultural aspects of the peoples of the Far East, rather than just a desire to trade with them.There has always been an interest in Western culture because the Levant and Egypt are located on the Mediterranean, leading to an openness to explore the culture of Greece and then Rome and France. Arab faculties of arts and sciences encourage specialization in Western studies, so it is not surprising to see that graduates know much more about Socrates, Plato and Aristotle than about Zoroaster, Buddha and Jain.They study the Iliad and the Odyssey while they know nothing about the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. They study the views of...
September 22, 2019

West and East do not meet?!

The sluggish eurozone
THE 19 countries of the eurozone present the odd spectacle of a single body, parts of which are well-muscled and healthy while others are flabby and sickly, if not indeed actually diseased. With the main exception of the non-eurozone UK destined, at some point or other, to cease to be the 28th member of the European Union, economic growth is not happening. At best, eurozone growth is expected to be 1.1 percent this year, with the hope of a minute increase to 1.2 percent in 2020.The European Central Bank, (ECB) the guardian of the single currency which has now been existence for over 20 years, has been seeking desperately to stimulate economic activity. Even Germany, the EU’s powerhouse slid into recession at the beginning of year with two successive quarters of negative growth. Part of...
September 19, 2019

The sluggish eurozone

Time for compromise in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has now been roiled in increasingly ugly protests for over 100 days. It is surely time for this to end. It should not be forgotten that it was thanks to massive peaceful demonstrations of some two million people that the territory’s leader Carrie Lam withdrew a controversial extradition bill from the Legislative Council.This proposal would have allowed suspects arrested in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial, where legal standards are different from those in this former UK colony which are based on British common law. However, the demonstrations continued because the extradition bill had only been withdrawn, not scrapped entirely. It took weeks of more protests, which were becoming increasingly violent, before Lam announced that the extradition plan had been...
September 17, 2019

Time for compromise in Hong Kong

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