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September 23, 2017

Fatah, Hamas and a grain of salt

THAT Hamas has agreed to steps toward resolving its decade-long split with Fatah promises the start of a new era in inter-Palestinian relations. Its announcement that it would dissolve a rival shadow government and was ready to hold elections in the Gaza Strip will strengthen the Palestinians’ bargaining power in peace negotiations with Israel because for the first time in years, Palestinians will again be represented by a single government. ...

September 22, 2017

Proudest moment

AS Saudi Arabia marks its 87th National Day, the Kingdom is looking into the rearview mirror to see what transpired in the year gone by, and the windshield to see what’s ahead.Much has taken place since last year’s anniversary. In June 2017 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman appointed Prince Muhammad Bin Salman as the new crown prince. Prince Muhammad also became deputy prime minister and retained his ...

September 21, 2017

Herding cats in Libya

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took up his job this year at a time when the in-basket in his new office was suddenly filling with crises. To Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have been added rampant nuclear North Korea, blustering and belligerent US President Donald Trump and genocidal Myanmar led by the fallen international peace idol Aung San Suu Kyi.At the UN General Assembly this week Guterres, reflecting on the number of ...

September 20, 2017

Proof of a zero-sum game?

RUSSIA’S recent Zapad military exercise caused flutters of alarm in nearby Eastern European states. Zapad was in part a response to June’s NATO BALTOPS (Baltic Operations) exercise. Both were scheduled events and displays of military muscle. But neither the Russians nor NATO invited each other to send fully-fledged observer teams, signifying the heightened wariness on both sides.However, given satellite surveillance and advanced signals monitoring, the presence of foreign military observers ...

September 19, 2017

Does Donald Trump understand just how the UN needs to be reformed?

DONALD Trump is right to criticize the United Nations’ red tape and bureaucratic ways. At a New York meeting Monday on reforms to the international organization he made the compelling point that the UN should be concentrating more on people and less on bureaucracy. That the UN is even thinking of reform is due to its new Secretary General Antonio Guterres whose bid for the job included a promise to ...

September 18, 2017

A very silly court case

YOU couldn’t make it up. A British nature photographer set up some camera gear in Indonesia tempting crested macaque monkeys to take photographs of themselves. A picture of a grinning monkey known as “Naruto” staring into the lens with a big grin went viral on the internet and was used in a book by the photographer David Slater. An animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ...

Aung San Suu Kyi

September 17, 2017

Suu Kyi: The price of compromise

MYANMAR’S de facto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi has decided to skip this week’s UN General Assembly session to deal with the Rohingya crisis. Of course, nobody expected Suu Kyi who doubles as her country’s foreign minister to travel to New York for two good reasons.One, her response to the crisis has drawn worldwide condemnation. Her words and actions, according to many, amount to complicity in the crimes against the ...

A passenger sits on an underground train leaving Parson's Green station after it reopened following an explosion on a rush hour train Friday morning, in London, Britain. Reuters

September 16, 2017

The enemy within Britain

IT is extremely fortunate and astonishing that the explosive devise detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday’s morning rush hour did not lead to a single fatality. The bomb appeared not to have gone fully off. Had it worked as intended, it would have killed everyone around it and maimed everyone else in the train carriage. In the end, 29 people were treated in hospitals, mostly for ...

September 16, 2017

The true face of Zionism

IN not so many words but quite clear in what she meant, Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked has said Zionism stands in opposition to not only human rights but also universal justice.Shaked had been critical of the Israeli High Court of Justice’s recent decision in which it ruled that illegal aliens refusing to be transferred to a third African country cannot be detained indefinitely. In her speech organized by ...

September 15, 2017

Trust and betrayal

THE depth and range of the corruption that has already been proven or is still alleged to have taken place at very highest levels in Brazilian politics and business is shocking. Politicians trusted by voters choose to use their power to enrich themselves and their cronies. In large part they did this when business leaders paid them for favors or contracts. It remains unclear for now whether it was by ...

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