Assila, Celebrating 30 Years of a Great Idea.
14 08 2008Not so sure many people around the world, especially in the
Yes, Mr. Obama, there is nothing wrong with being an “Arab” or a “Muslim” in America, just like there is nothing wrong with being a “Black” or a “Christian” or a “Jew”. Don’t be afraid we we do not have rabies.
27 06 2008Perhaps the Arab and Muslim American community of citizens and voters should not feel too offended and must not be too harsh on Senator Obama and his handlers as he goes out of his way to avoid contacts with Arab and Muslim American communities across the country. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Palestinian State Will Be Nothing but a Police State.
29 11 2007
Like Arafat on his first historic visit to the Court of St. James, who missed the opportunity to addressed the wrongs committed by Great Britain against the Palestinians and its full responsibility for the Balfour Declaration as the root of the conflict that exiled the Palestinians and contributed to the death of several hundred thousands not to mention the more than 4 million exiles. Arafat could not ask for any thing but support for his 13 different security forces. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkish voters can teach the Arabs few things about democracy, secularism and "Islamist Parties".
23 07 2007
The sweeping victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party in Turkey’s most challenging and crucial parliamentary election is a testimony for the wise and visionary leadership of Erdogan as he challenges the military establishment and the parties that ruled Turkey for most of its recent history. Turkey’s democracy came out much stronger because of this election and because of Erdogan and Gul. Read the rest of this entry »
What is wrong with the Arab street to accept all this failure?, Part 1.
22 07 2007
In the Middle East and in the US, we have a habit of blaming the governments for all of the ills that afflict the nations. Sometime we go too far to the point where we blame the government for bad weather, and disaster.
In the US unlike the Middle East, there is a constitutional government with over couple of centuries of established rules that governs changes in government and in administration. The House of Representative is up for elections every two years, though 90 % does not change. The Senate one third changes every two years, though again, hardly a change takes place with the same faces coming back again and again. Read the rest of this entry »
The FBI should remember this is the great USA, not Syria, Iran or Israel
24 10 2005
It is so ironic that we are willing to go to war to defend democracy and to spread the rule of law, when we at home are doing exactly the opposite, by behaving like the dictatorships we defined as the enemy.
That was my conclusion as I read the front-page article in today’s Washington Post ‘FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations” by Dan Eggen. Read the rest of this entry »
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