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‘A day that will live in infamy’
On December 8, 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the US Congress, a day after the attack by Japanese warplanes on the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. He described the actions of the previous day by the Japanese as a “date which will live in infamy”. The United States entered the Second World War soon after that incident.Almost to the day 76 years later, on December 6, 2017 another US president engineered a day which will live in infamy in the hearts and minds of all Palestinians everywhere when he unilaterally decided to move the US embassy from the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv to the holy city of Jerusalem, a city long contested by both Palestinians and Israelis and whose final status has yet to be determined by a world forum.Perhaps President Donald...
December 12, 2017

‘A day that will live in infamy’

How we lost Jerusalem
THE Trump Administration caused a controversy once more over Jerusalem (Al-Quds) when it decided to recognize it as the capital of Israel and move its embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This decision is an implementation of a law passed by the Congress, in 1995, which also authorized the president to postpone it every six moths. All US presidents since have done exactly that —till last Wednesday (Dec. 6, 2017).The postponement was not only for US benefit but also to protect Israel from expected backlashes, and to encourage its government to normalize relations with its neighbors. The recognition was supposed to be a reward for Israel’s cooperation with US sponsored peace negotiations since its inception in Oslo, Norway, in 1993, which ended with Palestinian Liberation Organization’s...
December 11, 2017

How we lost Jerusalem

Ayodhya: 25 years of shame
IT has been 25 long years since the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. And it still feels like only yesterday that the tragedy that changed India forever struck. Most of us remember where we were or what we were doing that fateful day. It’s as if time has stood still all these years.It indeed has in many ways. Meanwhile a whole new generation of Indians has grown up. Indeed, the majority of Indians today were not around when the mosque was torn down by a frenzied mob, in full view of the world and in the presence of thousands of defenders of law. Prime Minister Narasimha Rao reportedly slept through that portentous day, literally. With him slept the Indian state and its powerful institutions. The ghosts of Ayodhya just refuse to go away. They have been kept engaged, with great...
December 11, 2017

Ayodhya: 25 years of shame

Bad tenants
“SORRY, but I never rent to Saudis,” or “I will never rent to Saudis anymore,” are two distinct statements relaying the same meaning that are not said out aloud against Saudis in a foreign country for it would be construed as a racist statement. But what is it called when a similar statement or sentiment is expressed by Saudi landlords and apartment building owners within our country whenever there’s a situation with a Saudi tenant, who does not want to pay his rent, does not respect property or just dilly-dallies every time it is rent time.Our countrymen’s reputation in this respect is very bad when it comes to renting properties, and ironically it is also a fact that owners and real estate agents are most vociferous against renting to Saudis. It is a contradiction that is...
December 10, 2017

Bad tenants

What after Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s arm in Yemen. He was assassinated by the Houthis just as former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s terrorist wing, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. This is a barbaric model that has been unleashed by Iran in the region under an abhorrent sectarian umbrella. Confrontation or conflict with Iran is not a sectarian conflict nor is it a political conflict as it is always described, but a conflict between the humanitarian and civil project and co-existence in return for the brutal mission that Iran is carrying out to the region.History bears witness to the fact that wherever Iran interfered, blood flowed like waterfalls. Iran is on a “non-human” mission. The project of...
December 10, 2017

What after Saleh

From Guernica’s ruins, a lesson in fake news
A LITTLE over 80 years ago, on April 26, 1937, German and Italian warplanes bombed the Basque town of Guernica, razing much of it. Italian planes targeted a bridge, while the German Condor legion hit the town with conventional and incendiary bombs, and machine-gunned men, women and children as they ran from the burning town.The Nazis and fascists were fighting for the forces of General Francisco Franco, in revolt against the elected republican government of Spain, flouting a non-intervention agreement with impunity and helping to bring Spain’s future dictator to victory.When on trial in Nuremberg after the war, Hermann Goering, chief of the German Air Force, testified that “the Spanish Civil War gave me an opportunity to put my young air force to the test, and a means for my men to...
December 10, 2017

From Guernica’s ruins, a lesson in fake news

Blame Russia. But not too much.
“Missed a train? Lost a vote? Blame us!” reads one of the many posters recently posted on London’s underground transport system for RT, the Russian-based satellite broadcaster formerly known as Russia Today.The ads are yet another sign of just how overtly Moscow and its outlets have been reveling in their newfound reputation for driving events in Western politics. But it also points to a growing and increasingly difficult dynamic. As the United States, Britain and other European nations obsess ever more deeply about potential Russian interference within their borders, they ironically risk playing further into the Kremlin’s hands.President Donald Trump might remain unconvinced, but outside the White House there remains little doubt that President Vladimir Putin’s government has...
December 07, 2017

Blame Russia. But not too much.

The fight against corruption: Paving the way to the fourth Saudi state
Since the coming to power of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and the emergence of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman on the political scene, we are witnessing a new stage, or rather, a new version of the country with attributes of power and dynamism at all levels.His vision for the management of state affairs during the next phase of the country’s history can be seen by anyone who refers to the content of King Salman’s speech in March 2015 at Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh. Every paragraph in the speech consolidates foundations of a civil state and promotes values of citizenship through the achievement of social justice and equality, elimination of corruption, enhancement of security, development and welfare. Hence, what we see now is a practical application of King Salman’s...
December 06, 2017

The fight against corruption: Paving the way to the fourth Saudi state

Respect for public property
The wave of enthusiasm and appreciation that erupted with the opening of the new and improved shoreline along Jeddah’s Corniche last week was soon followed by a sense of disappointment as vandals began to leave their mark with damage and destruction to some of the fixtures meant for public comfort and convenience. Added to that is the careless littering that shows no signs of abatement.It seems that with much of the fanfare of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 announcement, some assume that they have been granted a license to destroy and litter. This is not the first instance of a newly opened public facility that was soon littered or vandalized. Somewhere along the path toward modernization, have we lost the chapter on proper civic duty?With its geographical location by the Red Sea, and the...
December 05, 2017

Respect for public property

Rohingya Muslims should only return to Myanmar under UN supervision
Global media has reported that Bangladesh has reached an agreement with the government of Myanmar that will allow hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to return to Myanmar. Rohingya Muslims have been victims of genocide and rape and have had their property destroyed by the Myanmar military and security officers. The United Nations, the US Administration and international human rights organizations have said that these acts were tantamount to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.The agreement, signed by senior officials from both parties in the capital of Myanmar, is considered by Bangladesh to be a step in the right direction to resolving the Rohingya Muslim conflict. Over a million Rohingya are living in Bangladeshi camps after leaving Myanmar. Around 400,000 of them fled the...
December 05, 2017

Rohingya Muslims should only return to Myanmar under UN supervision

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