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How the Anti-Semites of Hezbollah Have Sent Anne Frank Back Into Hiding
Dec 5, 2009 "This young woman who upsets people " was the headline in Lebanon's L'Orient Littáraire yesterday The teenager was Anne Frank, who died of typhoid at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 after being betrayed to the Nazi authorities, along with her family, in her Amsterdam "safe house"The Jewish Holocaust is not a subject which Arabs have learned to live with.
India May Hold the Whip Hand in Dubai Power Game
Nov 28, 2009 There are two basic truths about Dubai which, predictably, have not found their way into market speculation or newspaper analysis The first is that Dubai may soon find itself a satellite not of its Abu Dhabi capital but of India.
America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
Nov 7, 2009 Could there be a more accurate description of the Barack Obama-Gordon Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? Now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and – yup, we love him dearly.Could there be a more accurate description of the Barack Obama-Gordon Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai?
End of an Era for Lebanon’s Free Press
Oct 24, 2009 For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world Alas, no more The Lebanese media are being hit – like the rest of the world – by the Internet and falling advertising revenues But this is Lebanon, where politics is always involved Is something rotten in the state of the Lebanese press? For decades, Lebanese journalism has been applauded as the freest, most outspoken and most literate in the heavily censored Arab world .
Israel Should Pay Attention to a Man of Justice
Oct 1, 2009 Israeli investigations of the Gaza war, its government officials announced, were "a thousand times" fairer than the Goldstone investigation—a preposterous claim, given Israel's constant inability to conduct fair inquiries of its own—and that his mission "gave legitimacy to the Hamas terrorist organization."I met Judge Richard Goldstone at The Hague at the height of the Bosnian war, a small, dapper man whose belief in the righteousness of justice shone through his every word.‘Lebanon’s Madoff’ Goes Bankrupt After Bouncing Check to Hezbollah
Sep 8, 2009 Everyone trusted Salah Ezzedine. A billionaire Shiite Muslim businessman and financier from southern Lebanon, he organized pilgrimages to Mecca, ran a major Beirut publishing house and a children's television station, held major investments in east European oil and iron conglomerates and -- much more to the point -- was a close personal friend of very senior leaders of Hezbollah.
Gulf War Legacy Flares as Kuwait Puts the Squeeze on Iraq
Aug 2, 2009 Almost 19 years to the day after Saddam Hussein's legions invaded Kuwait -- and less than 18 years since the U.S. coalition liberated it -- the Croesus-rich emirate is still demanding reparations from Baghdad as if the dictator of Iraq was still alive. Kuwait is still demanding reparations from Baghdad as if Saddam Hussein was still alive.
Lessons in Justice in the Middle East
Jul 27, 2009 Let us now praise famous men and their fathers that begat them. The famous man -- he should be much more famous -- is the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim whose wonderful "reappraisals, revisions and refutations" is coming out in September under the simple title: "Israel and Palestine."Writers like T.S. Eliot, Edward Said and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim know how to string words together, according to this author.
Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle
Jun 23, 2009 You don't overthrow Islamic revolutions with car headlights. And definitely not with candles. Peaceful protest might have served Gandhi well, but the supreme leader's Iran is not going to worry about a few thousand demonstrators on the streets, even if they do cry "Allahu Akbar" from their rooftops every night.
Battle for the Islamic Republic
Jun 21, 2009 The Iranian regime, led by a supreme leader who is frightened and a president who speaks like a child, is now involved in the battle for control of the streets of Iran. The ayatollah appears more worried than he'd care to admit.