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No country and no education
LEST anyone think that Palestinian frustration and rage are the result of incitement alone, when a total of 55 West Bank schools are currently threatened with demolition and “stop-work” orders, when school facilities in four Palestinian communities were destroyed just before the beginning of the new school year, Israel violates the universal right to education and contravenes its international obligations as an occupying power, not to mention breaks the hearts of Palestinian children and upends the dreams of their parents who seek a decent future for their offspring.Six newly installed steel terrapin cabins were recently erected in the village of Jubbet Al-Dhib so that local children did not have to walk an hour to get to school. Sixty-four children from the first to the fourth grade...
September 10, 2017

No country and no education

Saudi Arabia back in the World Cup
IT was truly a magical moment. Saudi midfielder Nawaf Al-Abed sent a laser-guided pass to substitute Fahd Al-Muwalad whose screamer from inside the area gave the Japanese goalkeeper no chance. And just like that, Saudi Arabia was in the World Cup, its fifth appearance in the world’s showpiece football event and its first since 2006.Al-Muwalad’s second half winner gave Saudi Arabia a 1-0 victory over Japan to secure Group B’s second automatic qualifying spot, ahead of Australia on goal difference. Australia’s 2-1 win over Thailand in Melbourne meant Saudi Arabia needed only a win against Japan seven hours later to move above the Socceroos in Asian qualifying and go through to next year’s finals in Russia. Saudi Arabia handily obliged, making optimum use of the opportunity afforded...
September 09, 2017

Saudi Arabia back in the World Cup

Turkey at a crossroads
TURKEY made its first formal approach to join the European Union thirty years ago under the reformist premier Turgut Özal. Özal opened up his country for foreign investment and began the demolishing of the state-controlled industries which had been built up after Ataturk founded the Republic in 1923. Until then the country had sought to be self-sufficient. Pick up most any manufactured good in the 1970s and it would have “Türk imal” stamped on it somewhere.The quality of these products was not always of the highest — an automobile called the “Anadolu” rivaled East Germany’s “Trabant” for the title of the world’s worst motorcar.But what this independent manufacturing demonstrated was that Turkey possessed the capacity and indeed the will to become a potent economic...
September 07, 2017

Turkey at a crossroads

This file photo  shows visitors and journalist inspecting the entrance of the Tompa border station transit zone.   Hungary on Wednesday slammed as
A wise verdict from the European Court
THE European Court of Justice has told Hungary and Slovakia that they have to accept the 160,000 refugees that Brussels allocated them from crowded centers in Greece and Italy where these unfortunate people are now being housed. It has thrown out a legal challenge by the Hungarian and Slovak governments, which had sought to reject the migrant quota system and indeed questioned why the EU should be offering any refuge. Among the arguments made by both governments was that an infinite number of people wanting to come to Europe and the EU could not sustain such huge flows. It was also argued that the majority of those seeking asylum were not in fact genuine refugees fleeing for their lives, but economic migrants seeking to escape the poverty of their own countries. The judges at the...
September 06, 2017

A wise verdict from the European Court

Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi and ethnic cleansing
WHEN is the international community going to wake up and smell the coffee? Ethnic cleansing every bit as disgusting as the Serb barbarities in Bosnia is taking place in Myanmar, the country led by the Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But the world is sitting on its hands and doing precisely nothing. In the last fortnight more than 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled across the border into Bangladesh. The tide is growing. In the course of Monday alone, 35,000 more arrived. Where is the international protest? Where are the dire warnings that this crime against humanity cannot be allowed to continue? Where are the sanctions? Where is the threat to intervene and stop this monstrous crime? Where indeed is the Nobel Peace Prize organization and why are they not threatening to strip Aung...
September 05, 2017

Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi and ethnic cleansing

People watch a TV news report about North Korea's  hydrogen bomb test at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday. — Reuters
China and its North Korean Rottweiler
THUS far, there has been an icy logic to North Korea’s increasingly aggressive demonstrations of its nuclear weapons program and its ability to deliver warheads even as far as the United States. For the Kim Jong-un dictatorship positive proof that it is a nuclear power is its surest defense against attack. The Pyongyang leadership may even fantasize that as the world’s seven nuclear-armed power, it may now be accorded a place as an equal at the highest negotiating tables and may actually be able to force an end to international sanctions. The constant in the three generations of the Kim family dictatorship has been the benevolence of Beijing. It was China that in 1950 saved grandfather Kim Il-sung’s regime from almost certain defeat in the Korea war, when it sent its troops to push...
September 04, 2017

China and its North Korean Rottweiler

A screenshot of the Times article on child care.
A warning signal to UK
ANYTHING, it seems, is a grist to the Islamophobic mill in UK. The latest to trigger an avalanche of anti-Islam rhetoric is a “Christian child forced into Muslim foster care,” as the London Times put it. According to the British daily, the “white Christian child was taken from her family ... to live with a niqab-wearing foster-carer in a home where she was allegedly encouraged to learn Arabic”. A niqab-wearing, Arabic-speaking foster-carer taking charge of an innocent white Christian child? As was only to be expected, this report, later found to be based on inaccurate information, was seized upon by far-right activists including the former English Defense League leader Tommy Robinson, as well as Britain First and the EDL. The Daily Mail and Mail Online paired an altered image...
September 03, 2017

A warning signal to UK

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta flanked by his Deputy William Ruto addresses the nation at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday.  — Reuters
Kenya’s election U-turn
THE declaration by Kenya’s Supreme Court that Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the presidential election last month was invalid and a that new vote will be held is a first in so many ways. It is the first time in Africa that a court has nullified presidential elections, nullified the vote of a sitting president, and the first time on the continent that an opposition court challenge against a presidential poll result has been successful. And it is the first time the winner of the elections says he accepts the court’s ruling. At least for now, this election turnaround has not sparked public protests or outright violence, which could, if the dam doesn’t break, prove another first. It is a ruling once believed unthinkable and one that could embolden other courts on the continent to follow...
September 02, 2017

Kenya’s election U-turn

A file photo shows a flourishing Jewish settlement, — courtesy photo
Stunning admission on settlements
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent assertion that he has no intention of dismantling Israeli settlements in the West Bank is a stunning admission that he never wanted peace and that as long as he’s around, there never will be. To be sure, this isn’t the first time Netanyahu has pledged to keep Israelis on West Bank land. In January 2013 he promised, “The days of bulldozers uprooting Jews are behind us, not ahead of us". In January 2014 he told Israel journalists, “I have no intention of evacuating any settlement or uprooting any Israeli”. And Netanyahu has recently been taking more speaking engagements in the West Bank and celebrating West Bank products and achievements. But this time it’s different. Telling the 1,500 settlers of Barkan, at an event...
September 01, 2017

Stunning admission on settlements

A file photo of old Indian currency notes of 1,000 and 500 denomination before the demonetization exercise.
Modi’s failure tells a story
WHEN Indian premier Narendra Modi last year demonetized the two top denomination rupee notes, the expectation was that black money held by the corrupt would be exposed, since the high-value notes would have to be exchanged at banks and thus a record could be kept of who was changing how much. The Reserve Bank of India has just produced figures showing Modi’s remarkable move to turn the ill-gotten banknotes of the corrupt into what he said would be “worthless piece of paper” has been a complete failure. All but one percent of the high-value notes were deposited or exchanged for new lower-value bills. Some $230 billion of the currency went back into the system. Only around $250 million was caught up in Modi’s financial dragnet, a figure, which pales into insignificance when...
August 31, 2017

Modi’s failure tells a story

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