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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 However, the demonstrations continued because the extradition bill had only been withdrawn, not scrapped entirely.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

The Israeli operatives in Washington
Israel’s Netanyahu publicly declares his intention of annexing Palestinian land for illegal Israeli settlers. He says it loudly and he does not fear retribution. Why? Because he is confident America will not object.To understand why US foreign policy toward the Middle East is held hostage by the whims of Israel, you have to be aware of the covert actions that dictate such policies through spying, lobbying and the distribution of money to fund policymakers.These spies are not your covert foreign agents. No indeed! These operatives are Americans who publicly proclaim their allegiance to the flag. They could be your next-door neighbors, mowing the lawn on a Saturday morning or throwing a couple of steaks on the barbecue. But deep down, they foster an unbending loyalty to Zionism and Zionism...
September 17, 2019

The Israeli operatives in Washington

Tunisians deserve better leaders
THE first round of Tunisia’s presidential election has passed off peacefully. Tunisians had the opportunity choose a replacement for the late Beji Caid Essebsi, their country’s first freely-elected leader since it triggered the so-called Arab Spring revolts in 2011. Unfortunately, less than half of the electorate bothered to take part. Moreover, the two candidates destined for the run-off to be held before November are both anti-establishment figures.These two factors combine to demonstrate that the majority of Tunisians have lost most of their faith in the political process and the personalities who have led their country since the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisians seized democratic government with both hands. But the problem from the outset was there were too many figures...
September 16, 2019

Tunisians deserve better leaders

Cyprus relations and Riyadh’s message
The expansion of Saudi Arabia’s relations with Cyprus is a clear message to Turkey, which is trying to extend its influence in the region and the Muslim world by attempting to bring back to life the Ottoman era which ended with World War I.Turkey is seeking success through the Muslim Brotherhood concept of abolishing the borders between countries and instituting the ideas of governance of the Brotherhood in their attempt to control the Islamic world and beyond.It is only natural that Saudi Arabia should strengthen its relations with the countries of this strategic region, given the obstacles that Turkey is attempting to place in the path of those countries wishing to develop a healthy relationship with the Kingdom.Riyadh has in particular chosen to strengthen relations with Cyprus, whose...
September 14, 2019

Cyprus relations and Riyadh’s message

Mugabe’s unheroic legacy
THE late Robert Mugabe was indeed a hero in resisting by force and then through statesmanship bringing an end in 1980 to white majority rule in what was then Rhodesia. But some 15 years into his almost forty years of rule, he ceased to be heroic.The sidelining of his fellow insurgency leader Joshua Nkomo led to massacres of Nkomo’s minority Matabele tribe. Mugabe’s Shona people came to dominate the new Zimbabwe’s politics and military. After seven years as prime minister, Mugabe won the presidency and became increasingly autocratic. It was always something of a mystery that the international community chose to overlook the killing of up to 30,000 members of the Matabele people in a five-year campaign — the so-called Gukurahundi massacres — by the Zimbabwean military. While these...
September 13, 2019

Mugabe’s unheroic legacy

A marriage of convenience
The misyar or marriage of convenience within the country’s borders became a popular variant of marriage after it was sanctioned by some of our religious sheikhs. Essentially a license to have multiple partners without much responsibility or expense, it was soon followed by the misfar and other variations as well.“Misfar” marriage refers to a union contracted so that a woman may cohabitate with her foreign “husband” for the period of time he is visiting a foreign country. These women are usually divorced after a short period which ranges from a week to a month. It is natural that most of these women who are married off come from deprived backgrounds, and for most of them, they have very little say in the matter.Reports in the Saudi press have spoken of growing concerns over the...
September 10, 2019

A marriage of convenience

Trump’s Afghan error
US President Donald Trump has announced that as far as he is concerned, his peace talks with the Taliban are “dead”. But his concern needs to go a lot further, because if the talks really are dead, then so too will be many more people, mostly Afghans, who are currently alive and dreaming only of peace.If this is Trump running a script from his seminal book “The Art of the Deal”, then hopefully he has a carefully formulated plan. What he has done is tear up a provisional agreement that had been worked out over nine tortuous bargaining sessions between the Taliban and US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. Hosted by Qatar, because clearly the Taliban feel safe in the emirate, the talks had led to an outline deal for Washington to withdraw its troops within 20 weeks. In return, the...
September 10, 2019

Trump’s Afghan error

Tehran’s blatant lies
In order to secure the release of an arrested oil tanker, Iran gave a solemn undertaking that it would not be delivering its cargo to Syria. The authorities in Gibraltar, which had detained the Adrian Darya-1, accepted this pledge. Last week, after slow steaming around the Mediterranean, the tanker arrived in Syrian waters off the port city of Tarsus. On Sunday, the foreign ministry in Tehran confirmed the oil had been landed in Syria.It is hard to think of a more blatant lie or a greater diplomatic insult. For Gibraltar, read the United Kingdom, which at the “request” of the autonomous Gibraltarian authorities, sent Royal Marines to board and stop the tanker as it passed into the Mediterranean. It had loaded its crude in Iran way back in April but had avoided the Suez Canal, sailing...
September 09, 2019

Tehran’s blatant lies

Japan and Aramco’s IPO!
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Aramco’s IPO, the world’s largest, will be offered in two phases, the first on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and the second on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The world’s stock exchanges have harnessed their political and administrative potential to win the right to present this important IPO.The legal risks and the lack of sufficient guarantees of underwriting on the New York Stock Exchange likely caused Saudi Arabia to turn elsewhere.As for the London Stock Exchange, the political instability in Britain and the repercussions and expected economic recession because of Brexit were all negative factors that ruled out the UK, despite a promotional effort by London to win the deal.Furthermore, the recent events in Hong Kong have become a clear...
September 09, 2019

Japan and Aramco’s IPO!

Dr. Shoukany … I will be myself!
It is indeed an honor and a heavy responsibility to produce a eulogy when it comes to such a great individual as Dr. Muhammed Al-Shoukany.I was blessed with the chance to see him yesterday for the last time before the funeral prayer with mixed feelings of love, pride, sadness and tears. I said good-bye for the last time and I felt he somehow and in some way heard my words of valediction and empathized with my sorrow. Momentarily, I experienced a flashback of my close and inspiring personal 25-year history with my mentor and friend Dr. Shoukany - a momentous and life-changing narrative which resoundingly resonates with me and others to this day!It was way back in 1994 when I first met Dr. Muhammed Al-Shoukany. I was in his office when I joined the English Department at King Abdulaziz...
September 08, 2019

Dr. Shoukany … I will be myself!

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