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I was looking forward in my twentieth visit to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos to see and hear Arianna Huffington. Hufpost has taken over from The New York Times and Washington Post as my favorite read. A dinner she was attending was sold out, and I settled for a session called “Weak Signals”. I arrived early and sat at the table which showed a sign carrying her name. A

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In Davos another day, and in a meeting of media leaders with David Cameron, I asked him a specific question: would you say now that the conservative party will not increase taxes if they win the next general election? His long answer boils down to a clear: No. This means that on a salary of 100,000 pounds a year I’ll pay the top rate of 50% and additional 30,000 pound a year to maintain my status

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I am in Davos. South African leaders are here promoting their country and the Olympics. Good luck. Not only they dropped racism and apartheid, but they passed them on Israel, the new “old” South Africa.

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Barak Obama will go down in history as the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that others did. The wars of the Bush administration, its rejection of multilaterism, and its other crimes against humanity, including the American people, have earned Obama the prize as he represents everything that George W Bush didn't. I am glad for him and more glad at the utter dismay and sour grapes

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Huffington Post is great. Arian Huffington is as smart as she is fair. Still, I have a complaint.The Huffington Post published on Sept. 20 a sick joke under the title Gaza: The Israeli Perspective produced by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. How can anyone believe a ministry run by the thug Avigdor Lieberman, the bouncer from Moldova? The information was unmitigated lies and fabrications, not even

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The campaign of Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to head UNESCO is encountering racist anti-Arab and anti-Muslim opposition on the level of the blood libel and from (mostly) Jewish sources that have always complained of anti-Semitism while practising what they preach against. For Arab readers, the blood libel goes back centuries and refers to an egregious lie that Jews use the blood of

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As a citizen of the Third World I have my problems with technology. I think I understand only one third of the technology I need to master to get on or along. Now Huffingtonpost is a great media outlet. I always liked it and seeing Ariana Huffington speak in Davos made me like it more. My technology deficiency, however, stops me from getting through. In the case of Egyptian Culture Minister

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I don't expect President Obama to deliver on his speech from Cairo to the Muslim world but I hope he would surprise me. Everything that can be said for or against the speech has already been said, many times over. I only have one comment: Al Qaeda's two top terrorists, Osama Bin Lade and Ayman Al Zawahiri, attacked the speech even before the U.S. President had uttered one word. I think they are

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I support Barak Obama without excepting to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Arab governments are useless and the Israeli government is extremist and anti-peace. Still, Obama makes life easier for me. After eight nightmarish years of George W Bush I can support American policies or politicians as the good intentions, if not the results, towards the rest of the world, are there. Under

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Al-Hayat 19 May 2009My favorite English-language magazine is not “Time” or “Newsweek”, not even the late and lamented “Life” magazine. For over 20 years now I have enjoyed reading “The New York Review of Books”.I hope I am not wasting the time of my Arab readers by writing about a Western cultural magazine, but I believe that the interested reader will add to his knowledge if there are

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Jihad El-Khazen, 04/02/09At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, I discovered that we, poor Arabs, do not have to do anything to keep up with the Joneses. The Joneses of the world are coming down to us, courtesy of the financial crisis express.In Davos, I attended a few sessions on the global economy. I saw people dealing with politics or with the global economy for 30 years

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Jihad El-Khazen, 03/02/09 While attending the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, I felt as if I were in a party where the guests continued to dance after the music stopped. Perhaps the guests were there to prove they are not bankrupt… yet.Undoubtedly, there is a world financial crisis. It will probably persist for years. In spite of this, guests sweetened the dreadful

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Jihad el-Khazen, 02-02-2009 An Arab businessman friend of mine, the kind who I see in Davos year after year, said that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made him proud because he is a Muslim and ashamed because he is an Arab.It was a moment of anger that dispensed with speechmaking; Erdogan withdrew from the session with Shimon Peres. He could not tolerate, as a Muslim, that Muslims be

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In the nineties I thought that peace between Israel and the Palelstinians was round the corner. I decided to recognize Israel and shelve my boycott of pro-Israeli businesses; I entered Marks and Spencer in London for the first time in my life. Peace hopes all but evaporated after the election victory of Ariel Sharon's Likud in 2001. Still, I kept the faith. I finally lost all hope with Israel's

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A flying shoe has become the defining moment of George W Bush's presidency. It was aimed at and meant for Bush junior only. It was not intended as an insult to the American people. I have letters from readers that share with me this sentiment. The real insult is to have a geek like Bush leading a great democracy like the USA.Americans must have heard all the possible jokes about the flying shoe.

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On Tuesday, the United States moved to buy stakes worth up to $250 billion in the nation's nine leading banks, an operation that closely mirrored British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's decision Monday to partly nationalize three struggling banks, according to The Christian Science Monitor which said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.I am reminded, however, of the Peter Principle,

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I read the other day that Clarence Darrow said during the 1928 presidential campaign: Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.He was and he did. Would history repeat itself if McCain is elected president come Nov. 4? Short of a Biblical miracle I doubt that anyone or anything can make a great man out of

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Is it a coincidence that two rabid neocons came out in defence of Sarah Paline on the same day, Sept. 12?William Kristol asked if the Washington Post was "Stupid or Malicious" in claiming that the Alaska governor linked the Iraq war with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She had told soldiers going to Iraq, including her son, that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and

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The Israeli version of the Samir Quntar affair is that he crushed the head of a four-year old girl. The Israeli version seems to be universally accepted but it is not Gospel. Quntar says the child was killed in a crossfire by the sea. I don't believe him and I don't defend him, but neither do I believe the version of the Israeli army; it has always killed children and lied. Just juxtapose

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- One of the strangest examples of how religions, or traditions of various peoples, meet is to be found in references to a man’s robe or skirt. Ezekiel (16-8) says: Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and

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Some of the stories in the old Testament defy logic and belief. I will only include three and offer no comments so as not to insult the feelings of believers.On AbrahamMuslims mention Abraham, along with Mohammed, in their five daily prayers: Oh God, send your blessings on Mohammed and his posterity as you sent your mercy on Abraham and his posterity. The Bible tells a very unflattering story of

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All the following quotes are from Deuteronomy, unless otherwise stated.1-Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. (12-23) 2- (Also banned) And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. (14-8) 3- Ye shall

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The Canadian Foreign Minister, Maxime Bernier, has resigned under pressure after leaving a sensitive government document at the house of a former girlfriend. This is one problem we don't have in the Arab World. Half of our leaders can't do it and the few who can would rather do it to their own people.

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- Women in the time of the prophet were treated as property. They were inherited along with the sword, the tent and the horse. Islam gave them unprecedented rights. Recently converted men objected against the so-called inheritance verse, which gave to women and children and parents the right to inherit. Their view was that only fighting men should inherit as they defend their clan and tribe. My

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Miscellany من كل واد عصا The following joke is relevant:Abe went to see his rabbi. "Rabbi," he said, "I would be grateful if you could explain the Talmud to me.”"Very well, Abe," said the rabbi, "First, I need to ask you a simple question. If two men climb inside a chimney and one comes out dirty and the other comes out clean, which one washes himself?""The dirty one," replied Abe."No, Abe

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Relevant Koranic textWe ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our Messengers with Clear Signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to

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The VeilThe Koran says: Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: and Allah is well acquainted with all that they do (Surah 24, Al Nur, verse 30).)قُل لِّلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ يَغُضُّواْ مِنۡ أَبۡصَـٰرِهِمۡ وَيَحۡفَظُواْ فُرُوجَهُمۡ‌ۚ ذَٲلِكَ أَزۡكَىٰ لَهُمۡ‌ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ خَبِيرُۢ بِمَا يَصۡنَعُونَ(.And say to the

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Islam 101Islam is better than today’s Muslims. Words may be used to the point of being abused and remain true: Islam is a moderate religion. There is, however, an extreme minority that has hijacked the faith, with the vast majority of Muslims silent, disinterested, or in a state of denial.Every religion has traditions of tolerance and prejudice. The Los Angeles Times carried a story on Oct. 20,

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IntroductionFor over 30 years, I have been involved in inter-faith work, first with Prince Charles and Prince Hassan of Jordan, then with Prince Charles and Prince Turki Al-Feisal of Saudi Arabia, and now with the World Economic Forum’s C-100 initiative to promote a dialogue between Islam and the West. I am a founding member of the C-100 and on its core group.I have also attended conferences on

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I am sorry I've been away since January. Viewers of this blog may be sorrier; I have written a long study of Islam which will be published here shortly. It defends Islam, but not Muslims, and compares its revelations with material from the Old Testament. Muslim readers will protest the first part and Christian readers will not believe the second. I welcome all views.

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Op-Ed columnists of The New York Times represent a who is who list of American writers: Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, David Brooks and others. The rabid neo-con William Kristol has now joined this A-list as the proverbial fly in the ointment.The New York Times has announced that Kristol will be writing a weekly column, published every Monday, and he

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I wish all readers a happy Eid el Adha, a merry Christmas, a happy New Year and a happy whichever Jewish holiday that falls about this time (I couldn't reach my rabbi friend to tell me what holiday Jews are celebrating). May we all enjoy peace in the coming year.

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I went hunting the other day with two Lebanese friends, doctors by profession. During a conversation over dinner they seemed to agree that medicine in the U.S. is years ahead of Europe and the rest of the world. This must be true as the doctors discussed matters within their field of expertise. Still, I wonder how can American doctors tell if George W. Bush suddenly fell victim to Alzheimer's

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I went to court in England both as plaintiff and defendant over libel related to my work as a journalist and won both cases. In 1997 I won against the Israeli ambassador whose complaint was dismissed by the Press Council, the precursor of the Press Complaints Commission. I admit that I have never enjoyed being in a court of law and this includes several appearances in Lebanon where I won and lost

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I must have hit a nerve in my persistent campaign against the warmongers in and around the U.S. administration. Extremist and pro-Israeli internet sites and groups have published an article by Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy for the Jewish Policy Center, accusing me of anti-Semitism. I first thought that the title Anti-Semitic Jihad referred to Jihad as in holy war but it turned out to be

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I have written a reply in two parts answering an accusation of anti-Semitism from right wing warmongering extremists. It will be published in my newspaper Al Hayat Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 10 and 11, and a transaltion of the two parts will be on my blog from Monday. I hope viewers, especially of the Jewish faith, would read them

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The Iranian nuclear programme has given the U.S. and Israel sleepless nights. The troubles in nuclear Pakistan should deny them sleep altogether. Pakistan could experience a coup d'etat like the one which brought Pervez Musharraf to power in 1999, and the new leaders could align themselves with extremist Islamists to guarantee themselves a popular base of support. In other words, Al Qaeda

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I went hunting last week in the grounds of an impressive chateau, about 80 miles south of Paris. The weather was good and the food excellent. We got about a thousand birds, pheasants, partridge and ducks, over two days. I returned to Paris Saturday to stay the night before returning to London. It was the night of the France-England Rugby match and there must have been an extra million people in

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I came back to London from two weeks of very hard work, travelling between Saudi Arabia (twice) and New York to discover that the downmarket Washington Times published on Sept. 27 a sick article by the miserable Nir Boms of the extremist Center for Freedom in the Middle East on the wretched Farid Ghadry, a former Syrian and a current Israeli apologist.I won't spit on the above if they were on

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Under the headline Sinking in the Polls, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes wrote an uplifting article in the Washington Post yesterday. I first thought it revealed a positive trend then I had second thoughts. She quoted surveys in several Muslim countries that clearly showed a decline in support for al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden. I hope the terrorists would sink to the

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Today’s column was written intermittently over 10 days after a I read a Washington Post editorial about Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei that left me puzzled as I trust the newspaper. The editorial contradicted what I knew about the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, so I took my time and sought more information and consulted people in the know.Under the headline Rogue Regulator the editorial

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I stayed up all night Thursday to hear President Bush's speech on Iraq and comments on his new-old strategy. I'll spare the reader the agony of another protracted view on the subject, only saying that the misadventure in Iraq will not be solved by one speech or a hundred. There is, however, noticeable progress in another area. In Sydney about a week ago, Bush thanked his Austrian, rather than his

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In Islamic jurisprudence, or Fiqh, the onus of proof is on the accuser while the accused is requested to swear his innocence. English law also demands that an accuser produce proof. I am now told that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and laws of the country are not as clear cut. Is this true? And if it is, does it not mean that an innocent man can suffer unimaginable, or irreparable

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George W Bush cannot find his way to his ranch in Crawford and he is expected to lead the world.I only accuse the U.S. president of ignorance, the kind of overwhelming ignorance that allows the war party in the vice president’s office to pursue sick and impossible dreams of empire and American-Israeli hegemony over the Middle East.President Bush addressed the American Legion in Reno, Nevada,

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I haven't written anything for my blog since July 3. I have been travelling and my laptop failed me. I was partially successful in using it to follow the news but could not do much else with it and had to rely on hotels to fax my daily column to Al Hayat. The news, by definiton, is bad news and it is the worst in the Middle East. I will not start as I won't be able to finish.Most of the

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It is a mad mad mad world. A doctor who has taken an oath to help people goes out to kill himself and as many people as he can. I condemn terrorism but so does every sane person around the globe. A different thought:A doctor suicide bomber moves terrorism a few rungs up the social ladder. He can attempt to kill himself and others and, if he fails, can treat himself and his victims in situ. I

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I hope I can translate an idea in my head into something that the reader can understand. Here we go:We need a universally accepted, U.N. sponsored, definition of terrorism. When freedom fighters trying to liberate their occupied land are labelled terrorists they are left with no choice but to fight to the bitter end. Let me explain this to my foreign readers in drinking terms that they might

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Danwilson wants the Palestinians to guarantee the safety of their occupier. The occupation is the original crime. It destroys the occupier as much as the occupied. For all the so-called Palestinian terrorism, since Sept. 29, 2000, Israel has killed 821 under-age Palestinians against 118 Israeli minors killed by all the Palestinian groups. If numbers don't lie Israel is at least seven times more

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With a heavy heart I declare today the death of the Palestine cause. It died in Gaza. What Israel has failed to achieve in 60 years the Palestinians themselves have achieved for it in one weekend. I met Khaled Mashal of Hamas and mohammed Dahlan of Fateh last month and they both denied to me Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence reports that they were arming to fight each other. They lied to me

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I haven't had a Thought of the Day for some time now. I have been travelling. After meeting Mr Andel Ilah el Khatib, the foreign minister of Jordan, in Amman, I met Syrian Vice President Farouq Sharaa in Damascus. I also met there with Dr. Ramadan Shallah of Islamic Jihad and Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas. I oppose suicide bombings and have always urged the Palestinians to stop this practice. I

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Have you seen the story of the bedouin Palestinian who married 20 women and fathered 65 children? An Israeli Arab journalist called me the other day and aksed if my newspaper was interested in interviewing the man. I told him I didn't want an interview.I only want to know what this bedouin eats.

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I don't know what the Arab summit in Riyadh, starting tomorrow, will do. I know what it will not do.The Arab heads of state, of whom 18 will be attending, will not amend the Arab initiative.They will not endorse normalization of relations with Israel until after an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.Consequently, there will be no Arab summit with Israel.There will be no one-on-one meeting between

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In today's WP, Charles Krauthammer protests the conviction of "Scooter" Libby. He would, wouldn't he? He is an extremist warmonger and as such an accessory to muder in Iraq, an abettor who soils the pages of the venerable Washington Post with his venom. He has the gall to question the credibility and knowledge of a special prosecutor, a judge and a jury. A trial of the war party must be followed

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So Lewis Libby is found guilty of four felony counts out of five. Put the name of Dick Cheney in place of this "Scooter" to understand the verdict. I am a citizen of the Third, maybe 10th, World and I don't understand American justice. Cheney led a war party responsible for the death of 650,000 Iraqis but gets charged, via Libby, for making false statements and obstructing justice. It is like a

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Frankly.The Iraqis are proving every day that they need a dictator to rule over them with an iron fist and stop them from killing each other.The Lebanese, judging by their actions over the last few weeks, are proving that they need a foreign power to stop them committing political suicide.The Palestinians, killing each other and being unable to form a coalition governemnt, are proving that they

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Frankly.The Iraqis are proving every day that they need a dictator to rule over them with an iron fist and stop them from killing each other.The Lebanese, judging by their actions over the last few weeks, are proving that they need a foreign power to stop them committing political suicide.The Palestinians, killing each other and being unable to form a coalition governemnt, are proving that they

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I was in Davos last week and and have been writing about the meeting of the World Economic Forum in my daily column at Al Hayat. A few notes:- Professor Klaus Schwab desrves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is really working to improve the state of all peoples of the world and has been doing this for over 30 years.- U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff did not disappoint me. He was as

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I was in Davos last week and and have been writing about the meeting of the World Economic Forum in my daily column at Al Hayat. A few notes:- Professor Klaus Schwab desrves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is really working to improve the state of all peoples of the world and has been doing this for over 30 years.- U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff did not disappoint me. He was as

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The new strategy of George W Bush in Iraq will fail. I am putting this in writing to be able to return to it in the future and say: I told you so. What will happen is that the resistance fighters and terrorists will lie low in the face of additional U.S. troops because they know that the American presence will not continue forever. So there will be an initial lull which Bush will translate as

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Writing in FrontPageMagazine under the headline "Stop Calling them Settlers", P. David Hornik argues that the Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories live their legally and as such must not be called settlers. Okay, I won't call them settlers. I suggest that we call them thieves, burglars, terrorists, intruders, neo-nazis, supremacists, trespassers, convicts, illegal immigrants

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Last year, 2006, was catastrophic in an almost Biblical sense, like the plague or the flood. Just ask the people of Iraq. One encounter may explain it all. On July 15, President Bush suggested to President Putin that Russia adopts a free press and religion, as in Iraq. I still don't understand why the Russian president refused to take up this generous and sensible suggestion.

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George W Bush is a Creationist, the same as Usama Ben Laden, Saddam Hussein and leaders and members of the Israeli religious parties.I prefer, however, Darwin's natural selection theory but I don't think Bush Jr. descended from apes. He is more likely a descendant of a he-goat, as he is as stubborn as he is stupid. I also think that he descended recently.

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I can't get to my blog. Maybe it is nothing serious. I only want to say Merry Christmas, best wishes for Eid el Adha, and a Happy New Year. I know I should be magnanimous over the holiday season but the above applies only to people I like.

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Stephen Tame has been awarded 3.16 million sterling pounds in damages by a British judge for turning into a sex addict after suffering a head injury in a fall at work. He blamed his new found libido for cheating on his wife with a 57-year old woman, turning to porn and visiting a prostitute. I have asked my doctor if he can arrange for me a similar fall on my head with similar results. He

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Further to an earlier Thought of the Day, may I suggest that all those members of the neocon cabal, otherwise known as the war party, who have supported the war against Iraq should be sent there. This will allow them to prove that they are as good as their words. I propose that we send John McCain (his only claim to glory is that he was stupid enough to fall in enemy hands), Rush Limbaugh (and

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Writing in Los Angeles Times about the Baker-Hamillton report on Iraq, the neocon Max Boot said "Throw the Iraq report in the trash." I suggest the we throw Max Boot and his ilk in the trash. Better still, I suggest that we send Max Boot and his children to fight in Iraq. I don't know much about this Boot apart from his extremism. Is he married? Does he have children? Is it too late to stop him

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Nineteen guns were fired to mark the end of Donald Rumsfeld's calamitous six years at the Defense Department and not one of them hit the Butcher of Baghdad. The guns, like the Rmusfeld policies, misfired. Or to put it another way, shooting duds to the very end is what to be expected from such a miserable extremist.

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Today, Dec. 15, the Washington Post offers the views of David Ignatius and Charles Krauthammer. The first is a decent and humane journalist with extensive knowledge of the Middle East. The second is an extremist Likudnik, or Kadimaphile, with the blood of children from Palestine to Lebanon to Iraq on his hands. The first tries to bring peace to the Middle East and the second tries to cover up the

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Representative Silvestre Reye, the incoming Democratic chairman of the Congressional intelligence committee, thinks Al Qa'ida is predominantly Shitte and Hizbollah is Sunni. This man is presidential material. Are we looking at the next president of the United States? God help us.

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The following was partly-read at the Arab-Jewish Forum Seminar, organized by Lord Soley at the House of Lords, London, on 30 November 2006.A speaker in the sanctuary of the House of Lords should be expected to come up with challenging ideas and original thinking. All that I have to offer by the way of explaining the interlocking fate of Arabs and Jews, particularly Palestinians and Israelis, is

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 26/07/06/I hereby declare that I am withdrawing my recognition of Israel.It is not a state. It is a criminal enterprise, more dangerous than any known mafia. A mafia family may bribe one judge. Israel has bought the whole (American) system, which has installed itself as judge to the world.Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East, as it is touted. It is

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 10/07/06Following the publication of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons in Denmark, I embarked on an effort, parallel to my daily work, to collect additional information about Israel’s cabal in the US. Soon I was inundated with material and decided that I can only offer the reader examples of the Israeli apologist. Last month, I wrote a series about Daniel Pipes and

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 11/07/06Iran has always been the focus of Michael Ledeen’s work. He told the electronic magazine Raw Story that Iraq was “wrong war, wrong time, wrong way, wrong place, as I said at the time.”He added: “The key to the terror structure was and is Iran, and we should have started by supporting democratic revolution in Iran, not invading any place. And even if you

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 12/07/06Michael Ledeen has for the past three years been a firm advocate of widening the war in Iraq to encompass Syria and Iran. Many of his articles are variations on this basic theme. And he doesn’t tolerate dissent; when Nicholas Kristof wrote a fair column about Iran in the New York Times, Ledeen ridiculed and dismissed his views.A National Review Online

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 13/07/06Knowing the background of Michael Ledeen I suspected from day one that he is somehow connected with the forged Niger documents about Iraq’s attempt to buy uranium (yellow cake) from Niger. I have no proof so I do not level any accusations against him but rather offer the reader a summary of the material available on the subject.There have been long-standing

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 27/06/06Many years ago I had a driver with excellent qualities. If asked, he would work in the evening or over the weekend. He would take the dog for a walk in the afternoon and wash the family cars regularly. He would remove leaves from the gutters of the conservatory and work in the garden. He had all qualities except one: he was a bad driver.Daniel Pipes

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 28/06/06Daniel Pipes is an Israeli apologist, an extremist and a racist who works to spread hatred of Arabs and Muslims. That is my opinion of him in few words. My information about him is more detailed and comes from highly qualified Western sources, mostly American.In an article in The New York Review of Books (June 8 2006 issue) Michael Massing, a contributing

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 29/06/06Of the many hats worn by Daniel Pipes, today I will briefly discuss two: Middle East Forum and Campus Watch.The Middle East Forum was founded by Pipes - who is its director - in 1990, and became an independent organization in 1994. By 2004 it had 15 employees and a budget of more than 1 million dollars.The website of the Middle East Forum, describes it as:“

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 30/06/06If Daniel Pipes is not diverting attention from Israeli murder of Palestinian schoolchildren, is not attacking Arabs and Muslims, or is not intimidating university professors in Middle Eastern studies, one would find him exercising his racism and extremism in his most recent project, Islamist Watch.The Middle East Forum website has been carrying a job

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 01/07/06Another day with Daniel Pipes and Islamist Watch.Pipes’ Middle East Forum says Islamist Watch exists “to educate the government, media, religious institutions, the academy, and the business world about lawful Islamism. It focuses on the political, educational, cultural and legal activities of Islamists in the US and (to a lesser degree) in other

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 02/07/06The politics of Daniel Pipes is rotten to the core and nowhere is this more evident than in Iraq.Pipes has made comments on Iraq that invite the description heartless, callous and irresponsible. He has little pity for the civilians who would suffer in a civil war, and displays an inherent racism. Iraqi lives for him are worth so much less than Western

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 03/07/06The Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed go back to September 30, 2005, but the furore erupted only this year. At first I thought it was a mistake but then I discovered a link between Daniel Pipes and Danish right-wingers.In August 27, 2002 Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard jointly had an article published in the New York Post, headlined “Something Rotten

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 04/07/06The authors James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya wrote an article claiming that Flemming Rose - the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten who commissioned the Danish cartoons - is a Ukrainian-born Jew who is working with Mossad. The writer Christopher Bollyn wrote: “If this is true this confirms my suspicions and would prove that Rose has lied to me about his

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 22/02/06Dr. Condoleezza Rice,The State Department,Washington D.C.Dear Dr. Rice,Welcome in the Middle East. I welcome the kinder face of American diplomacy.For three years now, I have not said a single word criticizing you. Even when you took positions, or made statements, that I did not like, I took the conscious, but not conscientious, decision to comment on the “

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 19/11/05/Over the course of three days I intend to educate and entertain the reader by destroying the reputation of Laurent Murawiec as a researcher and alleged expert on Saudi Arabia. I will use the same method I employed against Gerald Posner in the summer, simply detailing the mistakes in information, large, small and stupid to argue that any analysis based

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 21/11/05/When I reviewed Gerald Posner's book "Secrets of the Kingdom" in June I stopped at the third chapter when I found him claiming that Sayyid Qutb set "The guidelines for modern Wahhabi adherence." Most Wahhabis consider Qutb an apostate. With Laurent Murawiec I could not go past the second chapter. There were so many glaring errors that would eliminate

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 22/11/05/Another day with Laurent Murawiec and his book "Princes of Darkness". He targets Saudi Arabia, but it is not really one country. The neocons, the likudniks and other Israeli apologists in the U.S. have in their sights all the Arabs and Muslims, seeking a "creative destruction" of the Middle East to steal its oil and protect Israel.Dick Cheney

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 10/11/05The criminal conspiracy pursued by the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, was a premeditated attempt at murder and destruction. It is not logical that Dr. Mohammed El Baradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency, could take one look at the Niger documents and decide that they are a forgery while the Bush administration failed to see the

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 09/11/05/Justice, Saddam Hussein style, was to hang the accused then try him. Those found innocent would then be declared "martyrs of wrath" and their families would be compensated.Justice, American style, is for a Likud cabal within the Bush administration to prepare a war on the basis of completely false accusations in which over a hundred thousand Iraqis and two

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayatt 06/11/05As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map.As we all know now, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoting Ayatollah Khomeini as he spoke to students who gathered in Tehran for a conference called “The World Without Zionism.”All hell broke loose after the speech and Iran was threatened by the same countries which apologize for Israel’s crimes against

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayatt 05/11/05Words don’t kill. Bullets kill.Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about wiping Israel off the map, and his words did not kill anyone. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon does not talk about wiping Iran or any other country off the map, but he kills children almost every day.I would have accepted the condemnation of Ahmadinejad’s words if it had been preceded

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Jihad KhazenAl-Hayat - 24/10/05Dr. Condoleezza RiceDepartment of StateWashington D.C.Dear Dr. RicePlease accept my greetings and best wishes for your personal and professional success.First an admission: I am opposed to the U.S. policy in the Middle East. I am not opposed to the whole U.S. foreign policy, but rather to that part of it that concerns our region. As such I consider myself a closer

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Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat - 14/10/05Colonel Moammar Qaddhafi is a living example of how not to be a president.During 36 years of rule, he has committed all sorts of mistakes, sins, and crimes, without one redeeming quality to his name, even as a coincidence. You could give a monkey a typewriter and let him type away for a few decades, and with the law of probabilities, might end up typing “to

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Jihad KhazenAl-Hayat 26/09/2005The Palestine cause is generous with all peoples of the world except its own. All a country needs is to "normalize" relations with Israel and U.S. aid pours in and its ruling dictator lionized.This has always been the case even before the neo-cons hijacked U.S. foreign policy. In the nineties the American team to the newly independent Muslim states of Central Asia

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Jihad KhazenAl-Hayat 25/09/2005While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made no mention of Syria in her speech to the U.N. General Assembly, she warned and threatened in her meetings with the various Arab delegations so I chose to talk about Syria with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari before continuing with Iraq.I noted that President Jalal Talbani, in view of his old relations with Syria,

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Jihad KhazenAl-Hayat 23/09/2005I believe that world leaders are color blind. Defective political vision is worse and many leaders suffer from that as well, but i noticed at the U.N. summit in New York that all the leaders failed to see the red light which told them that their five minutes of fame are up. Each would continue oblivious to the red light under his nose while I could see it from 20

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Jihad El Khazen Al-Hayat 24/09/2005Iraqi President Jalal Talbani is an old friend. I have known him for many years and our relationship has survived the ups and downs of the Kurdish problem. Saddam Hussein must have played a role in enhancing my friendship with the Kurds: the more he terrorized them, the more I found my self taking their side against the Baghdad government. Last week, I

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Jihad El Khazen Al-Hayat 22/09/2005Talking about terrorism at the U.N. General Assembly is like talking about sin at church. They are against it.One speech would have sufficed. Instead delegates had to endure 190 other speakers, all equally unanimous in supporting reform of the world body and fighting poverty.In such a gathering, some speeches are important by what they leave out. Secretary

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Jihad el Khazen Al Hayat 08/08/05/Although King Fahd was sick and hospitalized, the announcement of his decease was a shock to every Arab citizen, who knew and loved him like we did, and to every Saudi citizen who enjoyed the security, peace, and prosperity under his rule. This is the summer shock, which is preceded by so many shocks, to the point that I grew to believe that there is

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Jihad El Khazen Al-Hayat 08/08/05/Two images for King Fahd, Mercy Upon his Soul, are engraved in my memory: the first is in Paris in 1979 as I briefed him on the news and listened to his comments when the division in the Arab world was at its hype after the Camp David agreements. The second time was when I watched him in his military Jeep besides Prince Khaled bin Sultan parading the

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