The world’s number 1 terrorist, the Islamist mass-murderer Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan. At last. Now the world community is finally free to concentrate its efforts on his heirs: Hizbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, Hamas’s Khaled Meshal currently in hiding in Syria, and the President of Syria himself, Bashar al Assad, who […]
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What if…
… the Arab world had recognised Israel in 1948? The world – in particular the Arab world – would have looked very different indeed. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs butchered by their own leaders or used as cannon fodder would still be alive today, and regional democracy – 63 years old this year – would […]
Raising the crazy flag
There’s a leadership crisis in the world. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is showing increasing signs of mental instability. Now he is challenging the status of the Vatican and the legitimacy of the Pope. The next Libyan leader, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, is trying to surpass his father’s record in the crazy league. Gaddafi senior, Libya’s dictator […]
Perpetuation of Palestinian Intransigence
For anyone who has not yet read it, now is the time to spend a few minutes reading an excellent piece by Ben-Dror Yemini, senior columnist at Israel’s Maariv daily. He writes in an article entitled “Nakba Day and the Fraud” how the Palestinian Arabs (“the who?”, you may well ask) have perpetuated one of […]
The UN is dead. Announcing the birth of FREE
Muammar Gaddafi of Libya is right.And so too is Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran. They both want the UN to be fundamentally restructured. They both accuse the UN’s various key organisations of partisanship. Of failing to deal even-handedly. Of taking sides. Of gross disregard of certain member states. They want to see certain member states excluded […]