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Europe is wrong about Iran
Trade underpins world peace. However by the same token, the lack of trade, thanks to punitive sanctions, can play an equally important role in supporting peace. The European ought to understand this as well as anyone. White rule in South Africa was brought to an end by international sanctions. Boosted UN sanctions on North Korea have at the very least made the Pyongyang regime of Kim Jong-un sit up and take notice of demands that it abandon its nuclear weapons.And crushing sanctions also brought Iran’s ayatollahs to the negotiating table. From 2012 to 2016 the country lost over $160 billion in oil sales besides billions more in other blocked exports. The worldwide suspension of trade with Tehran brought the economy to its knees. Popular protests focused not simply on the hardship, a...
July 17, 2018

Europe is wrong about Iran

Time for the Taliban to talk
The campaign for peace in Afghanistan got a big boost last week with 108 Muslim religious scholars from 32 countries calling on the Taliban to renounce violence and come to the negotiating table. Participating in a two-day International Ulema Conference on Afghanistan Peace and Security held in Jeddah and Makkah, they joined more than 200 representatives from 57 countries in drawing the Taliban’s attention to Islamic teachings against the shedding of innocent blood and the suffering and hardship of Afghans in the last four decades.A 35-member ulema delegation from Afghanistan also took part in the conference, jointly organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Saudi Arabia. The conference was intended to support efforts to achieve peace and stability in Afghanistan and...
July 16, 2018

Time for the Taliban to talk

Two Saudi heroes
The story of the two Saudi students who drowned while rescuing two American youngsters in the US is remarkably sad but it is a story that should make every citizen of the Kingdom proud to be a Saudi. These two brave young men paid the ultimate price, made the ultimate sacrifice to help a couple of individuals - who they did not know at all - continue to live even as their own lives ended.It must have taken extraordinary courage for Theeb Al-Yami, 27, and his cousin Jasser Al-Yami, 25, to jump into the powerful currents in the Chicopee River in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in an attempt to rescue two American children who were being swept away in the river on June 29. They had no second thoughts about trying to rescue the children, no hesitation. They did not think twice about themselves and...
July 15, 2018

Two Saudi heroes

Israel now stealing Palestinian money
THE new Israeli law that will withhold money from the Palestinian Authority over its payments to families of Palestinians jailed or killed by Israel is tantamount to daylight robbery. The new law — approved by 87 votes to 15 in the 120-seat Knesset — requires the Israeli government to withhold an amount of tax revenue equal to what is paid by the PA to “individuals who were involved in terror activity against Israelis and their families”. If the Defense Ministry determines that such payments are no longer being made, the frozen funds will be returned to the PA. Either we support the MPs behind the bill who say the payments are “essentially an expression of support for acts of terror”. Or we go with the PA which says it is welfare for relatives of prisoners and...
July 14, 2018

Israel now stealing Palestinian money

Trump bangs NATO heads together
AT a Brussels summit all 29 members of NATO have just reaffirmed their commitment to the military alliance. But despite this pledge, what they have still not done is to pay for it. The United States picks up the biggest tab. Member states are supposedly obliged to spend a minimum of two percent of their GDP on their military. Only four nations hit this target; the British, the Greeks, the Estonians and the Latvians. And even the UK has made substantial inroads into its defense spending so that its top commanders have been warning that the cuts make no military sense. For instance all 72 of the Royal Air Force’s highly-versatile Harrier jump-jets have been sold to the US Marines. For President Donald Trump, the failure of other member states to make the committed military spend has...
July 13, 2018

Trump bangs NATO heads together

Germany’s bungling police
The German authorities have some serious questions to answer. A neo-Nazi cell managed to operate under their noses for 11 years, murdering nine Turks, a Greek and a policewoman without investigators realizing that they were dealing with ruthless terrorists.It seems that German detectives were guilty at best of gross incompetence or at worst, institutional racism. For some years the crimes were ascribed to rivalry within the Turkish community. Journalists variously dubbed the murders “the Bosphorus slayings” and the “Kebab Killings”.But in fact the crimes were being committed by three white terrorists who called themselves the “National Socialist Underground”. They were unmasked not by an intensive anti-terrorist dragnet but as a result of the last of 15 bank robberies which the...
July 12, 2018

Germany’s bungling police

A long-overdue peace breaks out
Badme, the impoverished Eritrean border town occupied by Ethiopia since 1998, is to be returned to Eritrea thanks to what appears to be a groundbreaking deal by Ethiopia’s prime minister of three months Abiy Ahmed.This hopefully ends a tragic conflict in which tens of thousands have died, both countries have suffered economically and Eritrea under President Isaias Afwerki has been on a permanent war footing with universal and indefinite conscription. The serious disruption to an already struggling economy and what the United Nations has alleged have been extremely serious human rights abuses has also robbed the country of any of its brightest and best. Young Eritreans are among the largest groups seeking to follow the migrant route via Libya across the Mediterranean to Europe. And the...
July 11, 2018

A long-overdue peace breaks out

Shooting the messengers
Journalism has become a risky profession. Until perhaps the end of the Vietnam War, its practitioners generally obtained ringside seats from which they could record what one commentator memorably described as “the first draft of history”.But Vietnam, in which the military accredited hundreds of reporters and cameramen from all over the world and transported them wherever they wanted to go, taught Washington a lesson. What might have been a hard-fought conflict waged largely unseen, far away from the folks back home, became a running horror story. Besides shocking images of distraught Vietnamese civilians caught up in the fighting, there were endless shots of traumatized and shell-shocked GIs, which complemented the regular flow of Stars and Stripes-draped coffins being met in the US by...
July 10, 2018

Shooting the messengers

India’s mob violence problem
At least 29 people have been killed across India since May in violence fueled mainly by messages on WhatsApp. The latest incident took place in a village in north Maharashtra where five people were killed by a mob on July 1 after rumors spread on social media that they were child-traffickers.Three others lost their lives in the eastern state of Tripura last week. One victim was a man trying to dispel such rumors on behalf of state authorities. His lynching came just hours after a Uttar Pradesh resident, who had been selling crockery in remote areas of the state for the past 20 years, was killed after a mob of more that 300 people attacked him and some others on suspicion of kidnapping children. Earlier, a mentally-challenged man was beaten and left with serious injuries by a mob in...
July 09, 2018

India’s mob violence problem

One less Palestinian village
The Palestinian Bedouin herding village of Khan Al-Ahmar is very small yet it is receiving outsized attention from around the world. The Israeli military is readying to forcibly evacuate Khan Al-Ahmar’s 173 residents comprised of 32 families, after which it will demolish the village on the pretext that it was built illegally. The village received a last minute reprieve when the High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction, in essence a stay of execution. The court gave the state until July 11 to respond to the villagers’ contention that they had been unfairly denied building permits. But previous appeals to the court have failed and so this one final challenge to the injunction could also end in defeat.The casual observer might ask what is so special about Khan Al-Ahmar. Close...
July 08, 2018

One less Palestinian village

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