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An empty peace offer in Libya
THE tragedy of Libya is that the majority of armed men do not lack for weaponry and ammunition but are largely deficient in training and tactics. Thus major urban battles turn into hugely destructive slugfests. The Libyan National Army (LNA) took two years to overwhelm the Muslim Brotherhood-backed terrorists who had seized large parts of Benghazi. The fight for the terrorists’ final stronghold around the port left the area in ruins. Largely lacking the discipline and proper command and control of well-trained soldiers, the LNA could only use artillery and bombing to blast away the last of the defenders.The same was true when largely Misratan forces acting nominally on behalf of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), the internationally-installed government led by Fayez...
June 19, 2019

An empty peace offer in Libya

We are different, you see
LAST week at a beach resort northwest of the city a group of middle-aged men was seated on loungers by the shore as the cool waters of the Red Sea ebbed and flowed just a few meters beyond. The sun had set some time ago, Maghreb prayers were over, and the faint glow of the setting sun still graced the far horizons. As is customary when a group of overweight and out of shape men get together, conversations ranged from health to sport, food, exercise, and beyond.Hamza was complaining of feeling lethargic for the last few days. This immediately prompted several remedial solutions. Badr started by advising Hamza to drink lots of carrot juice, partake of parsley daily. Ishaaq cautioned Hamza to go easy on the juice, as excessive carotene could be toxic. Dr. Jaber, who surprised the group by his...
June 18, 2019

We are different, you see

NGO’s are not above the law
NONGOVERNMENTAL Organizations, (NGOs) including United Nations humanitarian bodies seek to bring food, shelter and medical aid to the suffering.The camps they establish to support victims of war and natural disaster may quickly become unpleasantly overcrowded but at least they provide a place of safety where people can be housed, fed and given medical care.Almost invariably this aid is provided by NGOs who use funding from governments around the world as well as their own supporters in the wealthy First World. This means, that for example in Jordan or Bangladesh, the local health services and economies are not overwhelmed by the sudden spike in population.Most of these international NGOs, such as Oxfam and Médecins sans Frontières are charities. The work they do looking after people who...
June 18, 2019

NGO’s are not above the law

The fight of elephants!
THE US-China trade war is getting hotter and exciting. Rounds of action are consecutive and fast. Sometimes they are open and clear, at other times one needs to study, analyze and read perfectly to understand what exactly is behind these events.The US administration has inflicted successive and painful strikes on China by raising the tariff on Chinese products and then putting one of the most important and successful Chinese companies, Huawei, on the blacklist.The US has warned all American companies against any dealing with the telecom giant for major technical projects and urged its allies to follow the same approach. Following the order, US giant Google has stopped supporting Huawei and its mobile phones, which account for 16 percent of mobile phone as the latter aims to be the...
June 17, 2019

The fight of elephants!

Two fresh shipping outrages
Iranian media yesterday described the damage to two tankers in the Gulf of Oman as “an accident”. It is hard to believe this. The two vessels, the Kokuka Courageous loaded with methanol and the Front Altair carrying 75,000 tons of naphtha, were some 50 kilometers apart when disasters struck them. A fire broke out on board the Front Altair.The crews of both vessels abandoned ship. All 44 of them were reportedly picked up by one or more Iranian vessels. It is not yet clear what these Iranian craft were. However, the alarming suspicion must be that if they were not warships, they were vessels that were standing by for just such an eventuality.The Taiwanese charterer of the Front Altair said that the crew believed that they had been struck by a torpedo. There was also a report that the...
June 13, 2019

Two fresh shipping outrages

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds
UNLESS Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan scraps his order for Russian S-400 ground-to-air missiles, next month Washington will suspend his country’s participation in the Lockheed F-35 stealth fighter program.The Russian missiles, which are designed to shoot down warplanes, including the F-35, were due to be delivered this month. But in May Ankara’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that there might be a delay. Even though Akar went on to insist the deployment of the Russian equipment would be going ahead in due time, this caused some analysts to speculate that Erdogan was going cold on his Moscow deal. Their reasoning was that the Turkish president, aware of his rising tide of economic troubles, had suddenly realized that a dislocation in economic relations with the United States,...
June 13, 2019

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds

Encourage a productive and skilled cadre
One of the objectives of Vision 2030 is self-reliance which means that Saudis eventually have to shoulder the bulk of the mechanism that makes this country run. To do that, we need qualified people from college graduates to technicians. However, the prevailing notions place emphasis that everyone must hold a college degree to get anywhere in life.In the quest to obtain a college degree, some have opted for an easier route. This was affirmed by a finding of the Ministry of Higher Education, which has identified 110 offices selling forged degrees from non-Saudi universities. The agencies were supplying these bogus degrees for the past several years, with the recent finding just the tip of the iceberg.The degrees supplied by these diploma mills are not genuine or approved by any official...
June 12, 2019

Encourage a productive and skilled cadre

Nuclear Iran: Europe should get behind Trump
SOME apparently sensational multilateral agreements that at the time have been hailed to the rafters have turned out to be anything but epoch-making. Unfortunately the Middle East has been the subject of two of them. Where, more than a quarter of a century after the deal was signed, are the peace and justice promised the Palestinians in the Oslo Accord? Of no less pressing concern, where is the non-nuclear good neighbor Iran that was supposed to have been created four years ago in Obama’s much-heralded Geneva nuclear accord with Tehran? There has been sound evidence that far from abandoning their nuclear weapons program, the ayatollahs have pressed on in secret. For reasons best known to themselves the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued to sign off...
June 12, 2019

Nuclear Iran: Europe should get behind Trump

Economic pain!
I AM following with keen interest the developments in oil prices and the global market rates in light of the political and military developments in the Arab Gulf region arising out of the tensions between the United States and Iran. The bellicose statements emanating from both sides and the growing military build-up in the region should have been naturally reflected in oil prices and would have led to a dramatic rise but what happened was quite the opposite. In fact, the price of a barrel of oil fell significantly. This cannot be overlooked. What could this mean? As a matter of fact, there are tools which are being used against the Iranian regime, which misused its resources to export terrorist revolution around the region. The regime created militias and criminals, threatening different...
June 11, 2019

Economic pain!

Green Taif in the rain!
LAST week, I took my family to Taif as Jeddah became a bit hot and humid. After a busy and sweaty Eid day, we felt a change of scenery and weather would be nice but it turned out to be more than that! On our first day, rain and under 20-degree Celsius temperature exceeded what we bargained for. The next day we had some snow. Not to mention the beautiful green mountains and valleys, hospitable locals and Eid mode. The cabinet in the resort we rented surprised the most optimistic of us. On top of a mountain overlooking “Thy Gazelle” valley in Al Shafa town, spread over a wide, green terrain, included lots of open space for picnic and playgrounds for children. The service was reasonable and the price was great — SR265 for a chalet. Traditional food was delicious, plentiful and...
June 11, 2019

Green Taif in the rain!

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