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Israel is a very, very happy state
ISRAEL is the 11th happiest country in the world. That’s according to a report issued by the United Nations on Wednesday, published ahead of World Happiness Day on March 20.The report bases happiness on income, trust, life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, generosity, and perceived corruption.Putting these yardsticks of happiness measurement on the side for a moment, Israel must indeed be very happy, if not exultant, for one reason in particular. It must get a big kick from occupying territory of another people for 70 years. To perpetuate control over Palestinian lives and land. Israel continues its subjugation of a largely unarmed, downtrodden people under military occupation. All the while, its underlying premise is that Israel needs protection from Palestinians, not the...
March 18, 2018

Israel is a very, very happy state

UNRWA running on empty
VISITORS to UNRWA’s website will have seen the home page having been turned into a call for donations after the US froze tens of millions of dollars in funding. The cutoff of funds put the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in its worst funding crisis in its 68-year history, prompting global powers to meet in Rome where the UN on Thursday received pledges of nearly $100 million in new funding but is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year. The new money will keep schools and medical services open a few months more than what UNRWA initially predicted, however, a looming all-around humanitarian crisis could still be on the horizon.The US has long been the largest donor to UNRWA, providing funds for a major portion of its budget. But US President Donald Trump's...
March 17, 2018

UNRWA running on empty

Russia’s ferocious unreliability
STATE-SPONSORED assassination is nothing new. The very word “assassin” comes from a feared medieval sect located in the mountains of Syria and Iran which fiercely defended its independence by killing the leaders of states that attacked them. They later hired out their services to others.In modern times Israel has sent killers after Palestinian targets, North Korea has murdered dissidents and the United States and UK are among Western powers who are generally believed on occasions to have — in CIA parlance “terminated with extreme prejudice” — key political leaders who resisted them. In almost all of these killings, the governments that ordered them have not responded to speculation they are responsible and at best have protested that they would never dream of doing such a...
March 15, 2018

Russia’s ferocious unreliability

'Dropping the pilot’ — Trump style
PRESIDENT President Trump’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was surprising in both its timing and its manner. Though there were tensions between the two men, last Christmas it seemed Tillerson had reached a working balance with the President. The timing therefore caught State Department officials on the hop because Tillerson was on his way back from a weeklong tour of six African states.Moreover the manner of Tillerson’s ouster was extraordinary, though not perhaps for this most unusual of Oval Office occupants. Trump used Twitter to announce CIA Director Mike Pompeo would be the new Secretary of State, adding a curt thanks to Tillerson for his work. Since Tillerson does not do Twitter, he did not know what had happened until aides brought him the news. It might be a...
March 15, 2018

'Dropping the pilot’ — Trump style

Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen in trouble
IF nothing succeeds like success, then maybe it is also true that nothing fails like failure. And it would appear that France’s neo-fascist National Front is just now finding this out. Following Marine Le Pen’s drubbing in the presidential election by Emanuel Macron, the fortunes of her Islamophobic party have been on the slide.This is in part to do with the disappointment of those who clambered eagerly onto the National Front racist bandwagon when it seemed close to power. Le Pen originally tried to characterize her defeat as a calculated move on the French political chessboard, advancing her black pawn so that she could turn herself into the black queen at the 2022 presidential contest. But this was to assume the pieces on the board would stay the same. In truth the victory of Macron...
March 14, 2018

Marine Le Pen in trouble

A new low for football
THERE is classic piece of British snobbery about sport: “Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen”. Rugby is still a minority interest in the Arab world, though it has acquired an enthusiastic following in Libya — perhaps because it was one of the sports, including wrestling, which was banned by Muammar Qaddafi.Players there say it is a great way to work off their aggression. Clearly rugby ought to go nationwide though the gunmen who dominate Libya probably lack the guts, let alone the energy to play this serious contact sport on the rock hard pitches available to the country’s dozen or so teams. Four years ago Libyan rugby had a major boost when a scratch team scored a stunning win over British side made up of crew from a...
March 13, 2018

A new low for football

Extend citizenship to Rohingya
DISOWNED by their own country and despised by neighboring lands, the Rohingya, the Muslim minority in predominately Buddhist Myanmar, are the most unfortunate people in the world. But at least in one respect they are lucky: The world community continues to espouse their cause.Last week, the highest-ranking United Nations human rights official called for the crimes committed against the Rohingya to be assigned to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. Then dozens of British MPs signed a letter demanding that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and the European Union sanction Myanmar over the campaign of violence going on against the Rohingya. Also last week, John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Angelina Jolie, a filmmaker and...
March 12, 2018

Extend citizenship to Rohingya

Summits succeed before they’re held
THE ABCs of summits is that the leaders who go to them know beforehand what the end-game is. After the meet and greet and photo-ops, they know what will be signed on the dotted line and what will be written in the subsequent communique. They never engage in such meetings without prior meticulous preparations conducted by their aides. This holds doubly true if the leaders are not allies but adversaries.The extraordinary breaking news that US President Donald Trump has accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s unprecedented offer to sit down for talks deserves the screaming headlines: “Political Gamble of the 21st Century, Extraordinary Overture, Miracle, Mind-Boggling Summit, Unmatched Moment of History”. These two leaders were, after all, ready to blow their countries up to...
March 10, 2018

Summits succeed before they’re held

Netanyahu may still pull a rabbit out of his hat
WITH no fewer than four investigations looking into his affairs and a possible indictment on the horizon, it is safe to assume Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot survive the cases piling up against him. The graft probes are varied but amount to allegations Netanyahu granted financial or other benefits to businessmen in exchange for gifts or favors. So far, three of the people closest to Netanyahu have signed agreements with the police and the attorney general’s office to testify against their former boss in exchange for reduced sentences. With so much going against him, Netanyahu looks like he is acting on borrowed time and that he will ultimately follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Ehud Olmert and go to jail, the second Israeli prime minister to end up in...
March 10, 2018

Netanyahu may still pull a rabbit out of his hat

Sri Lanka gets tough on Islamophobia
ISLAMOPHOBIA is not confined to Europe’s far-right parties. Long-standing persecution of Myanmar’s Muslims, particularly its Rohingya community, has led to murder, rape and pillage as part of a blatant ethnic cleansing campaign which the country’s effective leader Aung San Suu Kyi refuses to stop. That appalling failure besmirches the Nobel Committee, which awarded her its Peace Prize in 1991.It can well be argued that the success of the hardline Buddhist monks in Myanmar in pursuing their racist vendetta against the Rohingya has emboldened similar thugs in Sri Lanka. The administration of President Maithripala Sirisena has declared a state of emergency in the central district of Kandy following riots in which the minority Muslim community was attacked.Mosques and businesses...
March 09, 2018

Sri Lanka gets tough on Islamophobia

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