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Look in the mirror
Those who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. And Iran has sowed far more than just a wind. Its interference in its neighbors’ affairs has come close to reaching gale force. It has sustained and reinforced the bloody Assad dictatorship in Syria, built a proxy army out of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists and brought Yemen to its knees by fomenting and equipping the Houthi rebel insurgency. The Iranian tempest has also blown down attempts by Iraqis to rebuild their shattered state and assert their independence. And the icy blasts of Tehran’s ill wind have been felt here in the Kingdom and in Bahrain as the ayatollahs seek to subvert the governments of their Gulf States neighbors.The outrage by the Iranian regime at Saturday’s attack by four gunmen on a Revolutionary Guards’ parade in...
September 25, 2018

Look in the mirror

Warning signals from Sweden
It seems political uncertainty and difficult coalition negotiations will have to continue for some more time before Sweden manages to form the next government.The most worrying thing about this month’s Swedish election was not that it yielded a stalemate but it brought anti-immigration and xenophobic Sweden Democrats (SD) closer to power than ever.Even if SD is excluded from power, it is sure to cast its ominous shadow over all future governments, whatever the party or parties and their ideology. That this is happening in a country that welcomed a record 163,000 immigrants in 2016 is evidence of how far feelings that unleashed an anti-European wave in Britain and made election of Donald Trump as American president possible have taken root even in this famously liberal Nordic haven.The...
September 24, 2018

Warning signals from Sweden

Flags and fireworks
National pride will be felt throughout Saudi Arabia today, the country’s 88th national day. On this day, Sept. 23, people who assisted in the Kingdom’s founding will be honored and the milestones that the country has achieved will be remembered.It was on this date in 1930 when King Abdulaziz announced the unification of the country as a kingdom and under one banner. From then onwards, national day has marked the nationhood of this nation and the birth of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as an independent nation.A country’s past often sets the tone for its present and future. As the Kingdom celebrates its short but rich history, it bases its present domestic and foreign state of affairs on the principles upon which it was founded. As such, led by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King...
September 23, 2018

Flags and fireworks

Europeans aren’t so bad after all
THE sentiments that Europeans harbor for immigrants are not as bad as the rest of the world thinks and maybe not as bad as Europeans themselves think. A new Pew Research Center survey says a significant majority in several EU countries supports accepting more people, at least those fleeing violence. That’s not the perception we have of many Europeans when it comes to immigration. For the last couple of years, the message coming out of Europe seems to have been hostile: Don’t think of coming here where you might get a job and a roof, and if you are here, stay behind fences. Best you go back where you came from and stay there. However, those attitudes appear to have shifted significantly with the new survey, which was conducted this summer. The survey, conducted in 10 of the 28 EU...
September 22, 2018

Europeans aren’t so bad after all

Colombia’s cocaine shame
ILLEGAL drug use around the world is a scourge that ruins the lives of addicts and their families and undermines the very fabric of civilized society. There is hardly a government anywhere has not dedicated itself to destroying the narcotics trade by tracking down the farmers who grow opium poppies from which heroin is produced and the coca plants that are the main constituent of cocaine. The identities of the drugs lords and their criminal gangs who trade in death are well known. International bank transactions are monitored to identify the laundering of drugs money. Satellites survey likely growing areas and identify the deadly crops. Customs men around the globe are constantly making large discoveries of smuggled narcotics. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year in the...
September 21, 2018

Colombia’s cocaine shame

The two Koreas talk some more
Peace in the Korean peninsula has edged a little closer this week with the third meeting since April between the presidents of North and South Korea. Seoul’s Moon Jae-in went to Pyongyang for further talks with Kim Jong-un and it appears that they have made progress. Moon announced the main advance — he in fact called it “ a leap forward” — was that international inspectors would be able to verify that the North has dismantled its main missile testing and launch site at Tongchang-ri.This, said Moon, was part of an agreed route to achieve denuclearization. But his opposite number has already made clear that the next step in the process, the shutting down on the key Yongbyon nuclear facility, is dependent on the US taking “reciprocal action”. This has not yet been spelt out but...
September 20, 2018

The two Koreas talk some more

Bashing Bezos
Jeff Bezos , boss of online retailer and data storage giant Amazon, is now the world’s richest man with a $150 billion fortune. This former investment banker walked away from a secure Wall Street job to set up a second-hand book dealership, which traded exclusively over the Internet. That was 24 years ago. This week Amazon joined Apple to become the world’s second trillion-dollar company.A year ago Bezos used social media to “crowd-source” ideas on how he should direct part of his fortune toward philanthropic works. The suggestions clearly poured in, perhaps some not as polite as the multibillionaire might have hoped. Nevertheless, Bezos published his thanks to all who had responded and this week announced two initiatives. The first will fund a US network of preschools and the...
September 19, 2018

Bashing Bezos

Absurd cant
In the last quarter of a century, Zürich’s luxurious five-star Dolder Grand Hotel, strikingly set above Switzerland’s financial capital, has seen more than its fair share of wealthy Russians guests. More often than not they have been visiting the private banks along the city’s Bahnhof Strasse. Though the country’s once legendary banking secrecy laws have been rolled back by rules designed to identify the money of terrorists and drugs barons, Swiss banking remains a byword for confidentiality and the tax-efficient management of vast fortunes via offshore investment centers.Along with properties and other investments in Cyprus and London, Switzerland has always loomed large in the financial affairs of Russia’s super-rich, whose survival and continued prosperity appears to have...
September 18, 2018

Absurd cant

War on terror: A failed strategy
John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president, was of the view that his country should not go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy.” Unfortunately, going abroad in search of “monsters”, real or perceived, and killing them at will has been the central pillar of America’s security policy under the war on terror launched in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.It was two days after the attacks the US Congress gave President George W. Bush sweeping authority to use “all necessary and appropriate force” against those “responsible” for 9/11. Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban were the immediate targets. But soon, the authority granted by this bill was extended to include terrorists, real or suspected, in other parts of the world.Thus military operations have been conducted in at...
September 17, 2018

War on terror: A failed strategy

Why Oslo failed, 25 years on
It’s been 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords, when PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, presided over by US President Bill Clinton, stood in the Rose Garden of the White House in 1993 for a handshake that promised daring hopes of a monumental breakthrough agreement. A quarter of a century later, and in fact much earlier, the dream never came true, turning the moment of high drama and anticipation into a miserable failure.There has been much finger pointing as to what or who dashed what could have been a lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. The process started well enough. Gaza and the West Bank city of Jericho were placed under the control of the PLO as a first step. The Palestinians recognized Israel’s right to exist, and...
September 16, 2018

Why Oslo failed, 25 years on

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