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Sometimes airlines have the right to say ‘no’
Kuwait Airways had every right to refuse to allow an Israeli passenger on its flight, as evidenced by a German court whose verdict backed the airline.When a court in Frankfurt recently rejected an Israeli passenger’s discrimination claim against the airline after he was barred from a Frankfurt-Bangkok flight in 2016 despite having a valid ticket, the court was upholding the right of Kuwait Airways to refuse to carry Israeli citizens on any of its flights. The national carrier had based its decision on a Kuwaiti law from 1964 that forbids its citizens from doing business with Israeli citizens. The court ruled that it was not reasonable to expect the airline “to fulfill a contract if in doing so it committed a violation of the laws of its own country”. The court said it did not have to...
November 17, 2017

Sometimes airlines have the right to say ‘no’

Exceeding its brief
Will Russian sportsmen and women be banned from taking part in next February’s Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang in South Korea? The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said Russia is one of four countries that have failed to comply with its code. The International Olympic Committee will make the final decision on the presence of Russian athletes at the beginning of next month.This is a saga that ought to be brought to an end. After a WADA report found what it said was evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes at international competitions, there was considerable pressure, not least from the United States, for Moscow to be banned from last year’s Rio Olympics. In the end the IOC left it to the governing bodies of individual sports to decide on any ban. The result...
November 16, 2017

Exceeding its brief

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses a meeting of his ruling ZANU PF party's youth league in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Oct. 7. — Reuters
Fall of an African hero
After 33 years in power, Zimbabwe’s colorful and controversial president, Robert Mugabe has been overthrown in a military coup. Regarded by the West as a monster and an economic incompetent who wrecked his country’s once-flourishing economy, to many in Africa, he was regarded as a hero who in 1980 emerged as the victor in a bitter15-year guerrilla war against the white-dominated regime.It may prove an irony that even with the forces that overthrew him, he remains a figure of some respect. But at 93, though he appeared to be in full control of his faculties, his long political career was drawing to an inevitable close. This coup has been all about who would take over power when he died.This year, he sacked his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-standing political ally in the...
November 15, 2017

Fall of an African hero

Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi: A haggard shadow of her former self
So that’s all right then. An investigation has completely cleared the Myanmar army of horrific human rights abuses against the Muslim Rohingya community. It has not murdered, raped, plundered and razed villages. It has not driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes to seek refuge in Bangladesh. There is only one small problem with this investigation. It was carried out by the Myanmar army itself.According to this mealy-mouthed report, it was Rohingya “terrorists” who burnt down the towns and villages of their own people and forced them to flee their country. The craven lies that the military have served up, in defiance of the evidence of journalists, the testimony of countless witnesses and the researches of respected international organizations, are altogether...
November 14, 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi: A haggard shadow of her former self

Disgrace in victory
THE Arab world’s celebration of the fact that four of its teams, from the Kingdom, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco are heading for the football World Cup in Russia next year has been dampened by the behavior of a group of Moroccan fans in Brussels after their team’s 2-0 victory over Ivory Coast.At least 20 Belgian police officers were hurt as a Moroccan mob went on rampage, torching vehicles, smashing shop fronts and looting goods. This was an odious way to celebrate their national team’s triumph and its consequences could be far reaching.Belgium has a large ethnic Moroccan community. It is likely that at least some of the young thugs from Sunday night’s rampage were from the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, a run-down district in which some of the 2016 Paris bombers lived. Sunday night...
November 13, 2017

Disgrace in victory

Libya: Salamé’s challenges
ADDING to the many challenges that confront UN’s Special Representative for Libya, Ghassan Salamé, as he wrestles with the problem of bringing a measure of stability to this North African country is the insistence of the elders of the powerful Warfalla tribe that the world body should consult them before launching any peace initiative.The tribe of Warfalla that dominates Bani Walid, the “hilltop town” located 145 km southeast of Tripoli, had been strong supporters of the deposed Muammar Qaddafi and were among the last to join the uprising against the longtime strongman. They still declare allegiance to Qaddafi’s most prominent son, Saif Al-Islam, who made a last stand in Bani Walid before vanishing, Mulla Omar-like, into the desert. The Warfalla who account for 1.5 million out of...
November 12, 2017

Libya: Salamé’s challenges

Palestinians surrendering is a pipe dream
There is an American initiative these days working to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by declaring a winner and a loser. It declares that Israel is the victor and the Palestinians are the defeated.The proposed policy, dreamed up by the so-called Israel Victory Project, calls for an end to the “continuously futile ‘peace process’ that has led countless world leaders to believe that peace could be achieved by compromise and mediations. The project introduces a new policy for a peaceful solution: The Palestinians ‘lose’ by giving up their century-long rejection of the Jewish state, and Israel ‘wins’ by truly succeeding in its 150-year quest for a sovereign homeland.”There are plenty of these right-wing groups in Israel and the US whose support for Israel is as fanatical...
November 11, 2017

Palestinians surrendering is a pipe dream

Priti Patel
Patel should have been fired
The disgraced and now former British Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel should not have been allowed to resign. She should have been fired. She had secret meetings with the Tel Aviv government – discovered by leaked news reports - while she was on a supposed holiday in Israel that were apparently kept from both the foreign secretary and the prime minister’s office. Once Patel admitted what was obvious wrongdoing, she also did not tell the whole truth. As it turns out, she held a dozen secret meetings with senior Israelis, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, again without the knowledge of 10 Downing Street. This was a stunning breach of protocol. Patel took no officials with her to the meetings, at which no minutes were kept.As if this was not...
November 10, 2017

Patel should have been fired

A racist prosecution
By lifting her immunity as a legislator, the French parliament has cleared the way for National Front leader Marine Le Pen to be prosecuted for tweeting three disgusting pictures of barbarities carried out by Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS). If found guilty, under French law, she could face up to three years in jail.The three images, which she posted in 2015, were of a caged man in an orange jump suit being burnt alive, a tank running over another victim and a decapitated body. It was this last which caused such furor because the man who was the victim of Daesh savagery here was the US journalist James Foley.Le Pen later claimed that she did not realize the last man’s identity and had not wished to cause any offense. But she stuck by the tweet that accompanied the pictures “Daesh is...
November 09, 2017

A racist prosecution

‘Hurry up and wait’
There are now some four billion airline passenger journeys annually. In the last 40 years the number of people traveling by air has increased by tenfold. Taking a flight for business or a vacation is now a commonplace. Airlines have prospered. Existing airports have expanded with new terminals and runways or completely new airports have been built to handle the burgeoning traffic. The actual cost of air travel per passenger mile has been driven down, even on routes where there is not strong competition.The air transport sector is a classic case of successful expansion to meet market demand. Yet in the last four decades what was once a pleasure for those who could afford it has become something of a challenge. Many airports are far from the metropolitan districts they serve. For those...
November 08, 2017

‘Hurry up and wait’

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