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Afghan peace: Grounds for hope
If there is no last-minute snag, there may be a ceasefire between the Taliban and the Afghan government during the Eid Al-Adha holidays, which fall in the third week of this month. What is contemplated is a truce that lasts a bit longer than the one which was in force toward the end of Ramadan that allowed Taliban commanders and troops to visit cities and celebrate Eid Al-Fitr with family members.This short-lived truce has led to a new momentum in peace efforts. Even before the truce, former US Army Col. Chris Kolenda and former US Ambassador Robin Raphel met with Taliban representatives. This began in November 2017, although the White House has not acknowledged such meetings.The idea of a second ceasefire came up in these discussions. But the discussions themselves were a departure from...
August 06, 2018

Afghan peace: Grounds for hope

Ahed Tamimi
Tamimi is a microcosm of the Israeli occupation
Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian girl who spent eight months in an Israeli prison for slapping an Israeli soldier and who was recently set free, was an icon of the Palestinian resistance movement long before she got out. For Palestinians, she is the perfect face of their struggle: an unarmed teenage girl who confronts Israeli soldiers, poses no real immediate threat to them but simply cannot be broken. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the Israeli occupation: A military power of brute force challenged by a largely defenseless people who simply refuse to give up their rights.Tamimi gained international fame in December last year when a video of her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral. The incident occurred on her family’s property, hours after Israeli soldiers shot her...
August 05, 2018

Tamimi is a microcosm of the Israeli occupation

You’re being watched
PASSENGERS on flights in America are being watched even if they are not suspected of a crime, not under investigation and are not on any terrorist watch list. That raises immediate concerns about disturbing and unnecessary surveillance. Under the program “Quiet Skies”, federal air marshals have been shadowing travelers on their flights and reporting any suspicious behavior. The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) defends the program, in place since 2010 but first reported last week by the Boston Globe, as “a practical method of keeping another act of terrorism from occurring at 30,000 feet”, the first being 9/11. Before people board a plane and are watched by federal air marshals, officials use information from the intelligence community and passengers’ previous...
August 04, 2018

You’re being watched

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan’s dilemma
IN a corner of this week’s BRICS summit in South Africa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had an important conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over Syria. The two leaders appeared to have become the best of friends after the brief but bitter row over Turkey shot down a Russian jet near its border with Syria in December 2015. But Erdogan is worried as Moscow’s client regime of Basher Assad prepares to move against Daesh (the so-called IS) and its Islamist allies in its remaining Syrian enclave of Idlib . This is the province that Turkey itself invaded in October last year to attack Kurdish rebels of the YPG, which Ankara brands a terrorist force actively cooperating with its own Kurdish insurgents in the PKK. But the operation also targeted the extremist Salafists of...
August 03, 2018

Erdogan’s dilemma

Is BRICS a brick?
A decade ago, the first BRICS summit drew worldwide attention, as Brazil, Russia, India and China (South Africa joined the following year) sat down in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to create a new commercial, political and cultural bloc.Ten years on, and the latest BRICS summit this week has hardly merited a headline in the international media, though of course the journalists of the five states involved have given the three-day event in Johannesburg dutiful attention.The reason that First World nations sat up and took notice when BRICS first came into being was that there was, at the very least, a reasonably convincing economic rationale behind the new grouping. The political links between countries that all had significant economic potential, which in the cases of India and China was...
August 02, 2018

Is BRICS a brick?

US president still seems to be trumping his foes
Is the US political establishment trying a different tack to pull down a president it abhors? Over the weekend, an unnamed senior security source briefed the Washington Post that, despite the deal Trump cut last month with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the Pyongyang regime is continuing the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.This news, if it is not fake, looks custom-made to humiliate the president in the wake of what he claimed were his triumphant Kim talks. There is, of course, the possibility that Trump authorized the leak as a way of keeping up the pressure on the North Koreans, but this seems unlikely. If Trump wanted to warn Pyongyang that US spy satellites had seen continuing work at the Sanumdong rocket factory, he would have opened his Twitter account.The...
August 01, 2018

US president still seems to be trumping his foes

A dangerous clampdown in India’s Assam
Public opinion in India, from all but the most radical Hindus, has largely registered strong disapproval and often outrage at the treatment permitted by Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize winning leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her country’s Muslim Rohingya community.Now, unfortunately, Indians face a similar crisis themselves as the government in Delhi prepares to deport to Bangladesh four million people, almost all of them Muslims, from the northeastern state of Assam.The authorities have drawn up a register of people who had already been living in Assam when Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan and acquired independence in 1971. This came after a brutal, some still claim genocidal nine-month fight against the Pakistan military, who used three ruthless Islamist militias to massacre and intimidate...
July 31, 2018

A dangerous clampdown in India’s Assam

Imran Khan
Change of guard in Pakistan
The stage is set for Imran Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a world champion cricketer, to take over as Pakistan’s prime minister. Everything depends on PTI succeeding in its efforts to enlist the support of smaller groups to get the simple majority to form the government. Meanwhile, observers in Pakistan and outside are thinking of the challenges Khan may face as he tries to implement some part of his program.Khan has repeatedly said he will make Pakistan as corruption-free as possible. This is what was expected of a leader who wanted to prove that his party was different from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) both of which have ruled the country by turn.There is no denying that Khan did benefit from voters’ frustration...
July 30, 2018

Change of guard in Pakistan

Leave it to Lieberman
ISRAEL’S Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman believes he has found the surefire way to stop attacks on Israeli citizens in the occupied West Bank: expand its settlements. As such, he has announced that 400 new homes would be built in the settlement of Adam, near Ramallah, where a Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli man on Thursday. The Israeli army said it was reinforcing its defenses in Adam but Lieberman wants to go one better by suggesting his longer-term strategy of expansion.Since the 1967 war, Israel has built more than 200 settlements on Palestinian-inhabited territory, housing more than 600,000 Jews and shrugging off pressure from the international community that considers them illegal.Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken advantage of his love fest...
July 29, 2018

Leave it to Lieberman

Ozil can have it both ways
There’s something wrong when a German football star like Mesut Ozil no longer feels wanted by his country. The Arsenal man announced his international retirement citing “disrespect and racism” within German football in a three-part statement after criticism of the midfielder’s World Cup performance and a pre-tournament meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ozil says he received hate mail and threats after Germany's exit at the group stage of this summer's World Cup in Russia. Ozil feels he is being penalized for his pride in Turkey, the nation of his heritage, and by Germany, the nation of his citizenship. Taking a picture with Erdogan was interpreted by many as not only support for Erdogan, especially because the elections in Turkey were right around the...
July 28, 2018

Ozil can have it both ways

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