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Why has Trump blundered?
It is hard to think of anything less wise than Donald Trump’s decision to have the US recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli state and thus relocate the American embassy there.In amidst the fury and despair this move has caused, there needs to be a quieter and more dispassionate accounting of what has been lost and what has been gained. The obvious loss is the peace process. The status of Jerusalem was one of the key negotiating points. But the Netanyahu government in no way takes the peace process seriously, any more than any predecessor Israeli government since the signing of the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995. Therefore, the peace process has effectively been on life support. Hidden in plain sight was the Israeli determination to ignore both the letter and the spirit of the...
December 07, 2017

Why has Trump blundered?

Olympic Rings are seen in front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters on December 5, 2017 in Pully near Lausanne. — AFP
Russia is banned
There is good and bad in the International Olympic Committee’s decision this week to ban Russian athletes from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Seoul. The good is obvious. There really has to be an end to cheating in all sports, since it is clear that the use of performance-enhancing drugs and methods such as blood transfusions are far from confined to field and track athletics.During the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, it is clear that there was organized cheating, which included the manipulation and substitution of drugs testing samples. Ten Russian athletes who won medals then are among a group of 22 who are currently appealing their lifetime bans from international competition in their sports. What remains unclear is who was responsible for the Russian cheating.In the end, even if, as the...
December 06, 2017

Russia is banned

Malta’s big justice challenge
The arrest of 10 suspects in connection with the car-bomb murder of a Maltese investigative journalist comes almost two months after her death. Daphne Caruana Galizia was described by fans as a fearless reporter, who used her hugely popular blog to break stories that severely discomfited political and community leaders.She alleged corruption at the highest levels in connection with, among others, fuel smuggling, money laundering and the award of passports and Schengen visas for travel in Europe. Her murder, as she drove away from her rural home, came after a series of threats that included the butchering of the family pet. She was widely admired for her courage in persisting with her blogging. Those of her supporters who might have feared that the 53-year-old journalist was becoming...
December 05, 2017

Malta’s big justice challenge

Ali Abdullah Saleh
What the Houthis have cost Yemen
THE killing of former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh Monday during fighting with the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in the capital Sanaa is just another example of changing equations with allies turning into enemies while creating further confusion in the ongoing battle for Sanaa. Following Saleh’s death a teetering nation is sure to be put at the edge of an abyss. It is going to further muddle the Yemeni quagmire created by more than 2-1/2 years of civil war.Saleh had allied himself with the Houthis against the coalition forces that intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 aiming to restore the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after the Houthis forced him into exile. But in a sudden change of dynamics when Saleh broke ranks with the Houthis it...
December 04, 2017

What the Houthis have cost Yemen

For real peace in Korean Peninsula
IRAQIS know that the US can totally destroy a country with conventional weapons or bomb it into Stone Age. Iraq was a weak enemy unlike North Korea, which, for all practical purposes, is a member of the nuclear family. The North knows only too well that in case of a war, nuclear or conventional, it will be wiped off the face of the earth.So there is no need for President Donald Trump or Nikki Haley, his ambassador to the UN, to remind North Koreans every now and then of the fate that awaits them in case of a war.But there is no dearth of warnings from Washington.On Wednesday, Haley issued another warning to North Korea that should its actions draw the US into war, it would be “utterly destroyed.” If war does come, it will be “because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed...
December 03, 2017

For real peace in Korean Peninsula

Saudi Arabia can do well in the World Cup
Saudi Arabia against Russia in the opening game of next year’s World Cup offers up a tantalizing clash but for the Kingdom it is a double-edged sword. It is a big honor to kick off the world’s most watched sporting event by playing in its first game. Lost in the one-month, 64-game schedule have been many matches hardly remembered or worth mentioning. But match No 1is etched in memory.The downside is that the Kingdom in the June 14 inaugural will be playing the hosts on their home territory, in front of what is sure to be a packed Luzhniki Stadium of 81,000 spectators and a TV global audience in the billions. In that massive, daunting atmosphere, the Saudi players will have to have nerves of steel to be able to deal with the occasion and soak up all this tremendous pressure.On paper,...
December 02, 2017

Saudi Arabia can do well in the World Cup

Until terrorism is eradicated completely
Although it was created two years ago, the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition held its inaugural session just last week. Nevertheless, the gathering in Riyadh came at a critical juncture in the fight against terrorism. Days earlier Egypt suffered its worst-ever terrorist attack with the shocking assault on a mosque in North Sinai that killed more than 300 people, including 27 children, during Friday prayers.This alliance of 41 nations spanning from West Africa to East Asia has come at a crucial time, not only because of the grotesque Sinai attack. The countries involved in the coalition are among the worst affected by terror attacks and extremist insurgencies. Seven of the 10 countries suffering from the most terrorist deaths each year are its members. Well before the mosque...
December 01, 2017

Until terrorism is eradicated completely

Now everyone’s an expert
While everyone knows that markets go in cycles, nobody knows the precise timings. Some of the smartest minds on the globe using the most powerful computers are always trying to figure this out. Jeremiahs predicting collapse and doom issue their warnings year after year until finally, as of course it had to be, they are proven triumphantly right.But perhaps the best bellwether comes when it can be said, as a US stock market journalist wrote of the huge surge of investment by Joe Public shortly before the October 1929 Wall Street Crash: “Now everyone’s an expert.” Given that even professionals can rarely call the market, what hope is there for the tenderfoot?This week, as the Bitcoin pseudo-currency headed through the $10,000 value mark, one of its investors enthused that there was no...
November 30, 2017

Now everyone’s an expert

The long arm of US law
It was not just that a US ambassador was murdered along with a fellow diplomat and two US security guards; what incensed the Americans was that Chris Stevens, their envoy to Libya, was murdered in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 enormity. In all the many presidential promises to the American public since George W. Bush declared his war on terror in 2001, the vow to find and prosecute those suspected of the Benghazi consulate killings has been the most prominent.This week, the first fruit of that promise saw the conviction of a 46-year-old Libyan building worker in a Washington court. Ahmed Abu Khattala was accused of organizing the attack on the US consular premises in Libya’s second city. However, the prosecution was unable to persuade the jury of the evidence it had...
November 29, 2017

The long arm of US law

Hatred in paradise
The beautiful island state of Sri Lanka shows a sad talent for discovering ugliness. Maybe the long battle to defeat the Tamil Tiger terrorists brutalized hearts in an unexpected way. The rebellious Tamils who sought an independent state in the north of the country were by and large Hindus with a few Roman Catholic and Methodist Christians. The majority Singhalese population is Buddhist.The Tigers were as ruthless toward their own people as they were toward government forces. It was an inevitable tragedy that when the rebellion was finally defeated in 2009 after a 25-year bitter conflict, there would be deep suspicions between victors and vanquished. Calls for international investigations into the treatment of the Tamil population were balanced by arguments from the government in Colombo...
November 28, 2017

Hatred in paradise

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