May 21, 2008
Although Saudi Arabia keeps the same aggressive attitude on the Lebanese crisis as told here on Al-Akhbar saying that Saudi Arabia advised its Lebanese allies who are negotiating Qatar to maneuver and gain time ‘till the Saudi [sick] mind thinks of an alternative plan, but I have a reason to think...
go to article »May 20, 2008
At a stop in Sharm el-Sheikh during his Middle East tour, President Bush told Arab leaders they must work for democracy and that they should: "treat their people with the dignity and respect they deserve. Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition ...
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Israeli-American blogger Daniel Lubetsky, traveling in Egypt, interviews his taxi driver on leading figures in the Middle East. “I asked him to rank people or countries, thumbs up or thumbs down. Here were his rankings on 24 questions from Bush to Ahmadinejad, from Olmert to Nasrallah, from B...
go to article »May 15, 2008
Could there be a more perfect image of the catastrophic self-inflicted rout suffered by U.S. Middle East policy under President George W. Bush? This week, the President will party with Israel’s leaders celebrating their country’s 60th anniversary — and champion a phony peace process whose expl...
go to article »May 14, 2008
President Bush arrived in Israel this afternoon and he will be here until Friday, when he moves on to Saudi Arabia. Jihad Watch reports on a posting on an Islamist site that claims that the President will be targeted in Saudi Arabia by al-Qaeda trained snipers. According to the posting, membe...
go to article »March 28, 2008
March 22, 2008
Osama Bin Laden has presented himself to the Arab and Muslim worlds as a departure from the ordinary and the corrupt. He has impressed many young men of those worlds with his rejection of the flashy lifestyle (at least as far as we know) of the region's worldly leaders. Rather, he lives the life of ...
go to article »March 17, 2008
So many things have been happening that are disturbing. But more disturbing is the inability to make sense of them all, to connect the dots. Maybe just writing them might help comfort the afflicted: OBAMA’S ARAB CONNECTIONS: Barack Obama’s biggest problem has to do with Arabs and the Pal...
go to article »February 22, 2008
Bloggers and some politicians in the Middle East were quick to draw parallels between Kosovo's independence from Serbia and the Palestine Question. Following the news from the Balkans, here's a snapshot of more reactions from Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Israel: From Israel, Auss...
go to article »February 14, 2008
“The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America not Saudi Arabia” that is what the editor of Vogue magazine Anna Wintour stated on learning why Hillary Clinton decided not to appear in Vogue...
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