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A dangerous deal
The Rohingya repatriation deal finalized between Bangladesh and Myanmar is no deal at all. This extremely dubious agreement follows preliminary talks in November between Dhaka and the government of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.It provides for the weekly return of 1,500 Rohingya so that all 650,000 of these victims of ethnic cleansing will have returned to Myanmar within two years. But there are large and extremely dangerous holes in the agreement which in fact offers no benefit whatsoever to the refugees.The most worrying element is that nowhere in the document is the name “Rohingya” used. Moreover, they are referred to as “residents” not “citizens” of Myanmar, where they have lived for generations.Furthermore, the Suu Kyi government plans to quarter the returning...
January 17, 2018

A dangerous deal

Iraqis can beat the terrorists
The return of the suicide bombers to Baghdad will be greeted with sadness and anger by the long-suffering Iraqis. Two fanatics slaughtered at least 35 and injured more than 90 in attacks in Tayaran Square in the center of the Iraqi capital.With the ouster of the last terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) from that area of Iraq that they claimed as their so-called caliphate, the pace of suicide bombings elsewhere in the country has dropped off. There were even those who hoped that with the defeat of Daesh, the attacks might come to an end.But, of course, this was never likely. Once their deployment on the conventional battlefield had been shown up as vainglorious posturing, it was inevitable that these vicious bigots would shrink back into the shadows. The main achievement of their...
January 16, 2018

Iraqis can beat the terrorists

South Asia: Breaking the impasse
Two recent developments should give rise to hopes, however faint, of a new beginning in Indo-Pak relations. One is a meeting between India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Khan Janjua in Bangkok on Dec. 26. The meeting, confirmed by New Delhi on Thursday, took place a day after the mother and wife of retired Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, now on death row in Pakistan for spying, met him in Islamabad. Pakistan says Jadhav was captured in restive Balochistan in early 2016. India maintains that he was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the navy. Whatever the truth, the Jadhav-family meeting has become the latest flashpoint in already strained Indo-Pak relations. India says Jadhav’s family was humiliated...
January 15, 2018

South Asia: Breaking the impasse

UNRWA should never close down
Benjamin Netanyahu should be careful what he wishes for. His call for the closure of the UN agency specifically responsible for Palestinian refugees could lead to a disaster not only for the refugees but also for Israel.For Palestinians failing to enter peace talks with Israel following his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, US President Donald Trump has threatened to reduce aid to both the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. The Israeli prime minister is wholeheartedly backing Trump’s views which is only natural. But while Trump has a specific political goal in mind for the aid reduction, Netanyahu’s reasoning for the same purpose is off the wall. He says UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem,...
January 14, 2018

UNRWA should never close down

Family of corruption
Two young men engaging in banter does not a scandal make. Except when one of the boys is the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and he is boasting about how his father arranged a massive business deal that smells strongly of corruption.A secretly taped conversation in a car in 2015 involved Yair Netanyahu, now 26, and Ori Maimon, the son of Kobi Maimon, one of the main shareholders in Isramco, which owns the Tamar gas field.“My dad arranged for your dad $20 billion, and you’re fighting with me about 400 shekels ($100)?” Yair is heard saying in the recording. He said that his father “arranged for your father a great deal” and fought for it in the Knesset.Aired by an Israeli TV channel, the tape has drawn stinging rebukes from Netanyahu’s office – but not much has...
January 13, 2018

Family of corruption

Tunisia’s disappointing revolution
Tunisia is once again racked by popular protests. The issues bringing crowds onto the streets in 10 towns and cities, including the capital Tunis, are painfully similar to those which prompted the 2011 revolution that ended president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s 20 years in power.The rising cost of food, fuel and rents coupled with widespread unemployment and continuing corruption have brought despair to many Tunisians. The social security net is inadequate. Had it not been for strong family units, especially in rural districts, undernourishment would be common. As it is, not many people are overweight.Tunisians are craftsmen. In neighboring Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi kept his people quiet by paying them for jobs that required minimum, if indeed any effort at all, Tunisians provided much...
January 12, 2018

Tunisia’s disappointing revolution

The hunt for MH370 resumes
The Malaysian government has announced that almost four years after Flight MH370 disappeared and a year after a huge search lasting over a thousand days was finally suspended, it has cut a deal with a US deep sea exploration company to resume the hunt.The agreement with the American firm Ocean Infinity stipulates that a fee will only be paid if the wreckage of the Boeing 777-200 is discovered. The focus is to be on a new area of 25,000 square kilometers to the north of the previous search zone in the southern Indian Ocean.The company will be paid $20 million if a find is made within the first 5,000 square kilometers rising to $70 million. All the searches have to be completed within 90 days. It is being reported that Ocean Infinity has already chartered a Norwegian vessel. This has a...
January 11, 2018

The hunt for MH370 resumes

Iran’s English-teaching ban
Iran’s supreme leader has just banned the teaching of English in primary schools because he sees such learning as a “cultural invasion”. If this is indeed his thinking, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would clearly also like to ban English lessons throughout the entire Iranian education system.There is of course nothing surprising about this decision in the distorted reality field that is Iran. It is probably no coincidence that the announcement comes in the wake of widespread popular protests at the wretched corruption and parlous economic failures of the regime. The intrusion of the real world into the bigoted and incoherent rule of the ayatollahs and their grasping praetorian protectors, the Revolutionary Guards, is an unacceptable invasion by the truth.Since English is the world’s most...
January 10, 2018

Iran’s English-teaching ban

Another polluting tanker disaster
TANKER collisions and the consequent marine pollution and far-reaching environmental damage are the stuff of nightmares. The Kingdom is particularly exposed to the danger because of the heavy movement of laden and unladen shipping off its coasts, particularly along the Gulf.The authorities in China are currently battling to contain the potentially devastating environmental consequences of a blazing Iranian tanker, the Sanchi, that was carrying a million barrel oil from Iran to China. The Hong Kong registered CF Crystal loaded with a cargo of US grain was the other vessel involved in the collision. Both vessels were bringing their cargoes to satisfy the voracious raw material demands of China’s still surging economy.The two ships impacted some 260 kilometers off the coast of Shanghai. The...
January 09, 2018

Another polluting tanker disaster

Sunshine over Korean Peninsula?
IF there is no last-minute hitch, South and North Korea may begin direct talks tomorrow after a break of two years.Since his inauguration in May 2017, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has been calling for dialogue with the North. Pyongyang severed all communications with Seoul in 2016 after Moon’s conservative predecessor shuttered an industrial complex in the North. Moon has also been pressing Pyongyang for months to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics his nation is hosting next month.Speculation that the Koreas would resume face-to-face contacts rose on New Year’s Day, when the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un said he was willing to discuss the possibility of his country’s participation in the Winter Games.The discussions, to be held at the Peace House on the South Korean...
January 08, 2018

Sunshine over Korean Peninsula?

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