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Tunisia’s troubles
Tunisia has had eight governments in as many years. Current bickering among the members of the present ruling coalition make it seem very likely that it will shortly have a ninth. The depressing reality is that yet another coalition is going to make precious little difference to the country’s social and economic woes.While Tunis itself and its plush outside suburbs, such as La Marsa and Hammamet, show a relatively prosperous face to the world, out into the countryside it is easy to find widespread unemployment, poverty and discontent. While the overall jobless rate is 15 percent, around 30 percent of young people, including those with a university education, cannot find work.It has always been one of the oddities of the analysis of terrorism that Tunisians made up the largest national...
June 07, 2018

Tunisia’s troubles

Erdogan to face the voters
In three weeks, Turks will vote in new presidential and parliamentary elections that are likely to see the return of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With widely extended executive powers, Erdogan is expecting to emerge as an even more assertive leader.His ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) may do less well since pundits point to an erosion of popular support. However even if he loses legislators, Erdogan’s new presidential powers could enable him to sidestep parliament by issuing decrees.The president must be well aware that there are stormy economic waters ahead, which is why he advanced the date of these elections by 18 months. By that time his administration could have found itself in trouble because of anti-inflationary measures most economists believe are essential to...
June 06, 2018

Erdogan to face the voters

The migrant myth
EUROPEAN xenophobes regularly complain that too many of the migrants who have arrived are not genuine refugees and therefore are not entitled to stay. In Hungary, Poland, Austria, Italy and now Slovenia, voters have been persuaded to elect governments dedicated to sending these economic migrants home. The new Italian right-wing coalition between the Five Star Movement and the League is already trying to start a program to repatriate migrants, especially from sub-Saharan Africa who have no grounds to claim political asylum.League leader Matteo Salvini, the coalition’s interior minister was in Sicily on Sunday where he said the mass repatriation was hard but made common sense. He also said that by stopping the island of Sicily from being “the refugee camp of Europe” he would stop the...
June 05, 2018

The migrant myth

India: Kairana’s lessons
COMMUNAL riots have always been part of India’s social fabric. In fact, some of the major riots, including two in Gujarat took place when the Congress party was in power all over India. But there were no attempts at official level to promote communal polarization, as is the case after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power.All top leaders of the party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi have at one time or the other played this divisive game. They cast aspersions on minorities and their supporters. At one stage in his election campaign in Gujarat in 2017, Modi made the stunning charge that the opposition Congress and elements in Pakistan may be working in cahoots to prevent a BJP victory in the state.If such tactics don’t vitiate the atmosphere, there are the activities of the...
June 04, 2018

India: Kairana’s lessons

The US never runs out of vetoes
Once again, the US has given its complete and unabashed backing to Israel on the Gaza issue. At the UN Security Council, the US vetoed a measure backed by Arab countries to protect Palestinians. The US said that the vote showed that the Security Council was willing to blame Israel, but unwilling to blame Hamas, for violence in Gaza. How right Washington is. The six weeks of “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force by the Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians” as stated in the draft resolution, can only be blamed on Israel.The situation in Gaza has become so dire - unemployment, limited supplies of electricity and clean water, and a sanitation system unable to cope - it is being dubbed a sinking ship. The mess in Gaza was already bad enough but it degenerated badly...
June 03, 2018

The US never runs out of vetoes

Roseanne liked at least one Muslim family
Amid the furor over the abrupt cancellation of the American sitcom Roseanne because of the star’s racist tweet, it is easy to forget that in one particular episode, on Muslims, she aimed to teach, in her words, “tolerance and compassion.”The seventh episode “Go Cubs” is devoted to Roseanne, played by Roseanne Barr, getting new Muslim neighbors. At first, Roseanne spends her time spying on the neighbors, insisting that their huge supply of fertilizer could mean they’re “a sleeper cell full of terrorists getting ready to blow up our neighborhood,” and suggesting that their Wi-Fi password would be “deathtoAmerica123.”Roseanne is eventually forced to address the situation when she needs to visit the family and ask to borrow their Wi-Fi password for an important Skype call...
June 02, 2018

Roseanne liked at least one Muslim family

Another chance for Afghanistan?
It has been known for some time that the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani has been in talks with elements of the Taliban. The question has always been who among the insurgents were doing the talking and whether they would be able to deliver on any agreement that might ultimately emerge.Even when they constituted the country’s government under their first leader Mullah Omar, the Taliban were rarely united. By no means all of them welcomed the arrival of Osama Bin Laden and his group of international terrorists. Indeed, a fundamental dislike of foreigners is one of the key sentiments that unites the insurgents, as it has all Afghans throughout their long and often violent history.Since the Taliban’s 2001 US-led ouster from Kabul, there have been occasional efforts to talk to...
June 01, 2018

Another chance for Afghanistan?

Less news is good news
The limited coverage given to the apparent terrorist attack in the Belgian city of Liege was notable. Two female police officers were stabbed to death by a 29 year old named Benjamin Herman who then used their weapons to shoot a civilian sitting in a car. There were reports the killer, a petty criminal who had spent much of his life in jail and only been released two days before, had shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he committed his murders.He was shot dead by police after he had taken a hostage at a nearby school.It is not so long ago that this latest seeming terror attack would have merited headlines worldwide. But the media were notably restrained in their initial coverage. It was reported Herman had been “radicalized” in prison, but then it emerged he was suspected of another murder...
May 31, 2018

Less news is good news

Ebola returns
The odd thing about pandemics is that we forget about them when they are not around. Yet when they break out there is widespread and understandable concern, which unfortunately can turn to panic. In the fourteenth century, the Black Death, which raged in Asia and Europe for seven years from 1346, is estimated to have killed between 75 and 200 million people. Between 1918 and 1919, the virulent Spanish flu infected half a billion people of whom some 50 million died, a death toll greater than that in the deadly battles during the four years of the First World War.In recent years we have had outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Avian flu and Ebola. The big difference between these and the historic infections is that they were epidemics - they were not pandemics that spread...
May 30, 2018

Ebola returns

Libya’s loathsome people-smugglers
AROUND the globe, human-traffickers who are as morally bankrupt as Daesh (the so-called IS) terrorists, are treating people as mere goods and chattels, products to be smuggled around the world, while abusing, raping, robbing and enslaving them.These merciless creatures are at work across many borders. However, in two particular countries, their barbarous treatment of men and women who have given all the money they and their families to be smuggled to a better, safer life, completely beggars belief.In Thailand, smugglers who promised to channel desperate Rohingya refugees across the border into Malaysia, instead imprisoned their “passengers” in horrific jungle camps. They forced them to phone home to have friends and family raise ransoms for their release. And this was often not the end...
May 29, 2018

Libya’s loathsome people-smugglers

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