Monday, October 31, 2011

Palestinians pledge to adhere to UN statehood plan (AFP)

RAMALLAH, Palestinian territories (AFP)-the Palestinians will follow their campaign to win UN endorsement for a unilaterally declared State despite U.S. opposition, a senior official Palestinian said.


"Now that (isrælske prime minister) Benjamin Netanyahu has proven that he rejects the peace process, there is no doubt that we must continue the strategic objective to turn to the UN in September," Nabil Shaath, a senior member of the Fatah movement, told AFP late Saturday.


Shaath, a former minister said that the objective of the Palestinians is to win recognition by the world body in their promised mode "in the 1967 borders," refers to the lines that existed before the year the six-day war.


It would mean a Palestinian State in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including annexed Arab isrælsk-East Jerusalem.


On Wednesday, said an official of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Abed Rabbo that Israel had to choose between negotiate on this basis or facing UN recognition of a State on the same lines.


In a keynote policy speech in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama called for a Palestinian State based on 1967 lines, but said the Palestinian bid for UN recognition would bring them sovereignty.


Shortly before flying to Washington for talks with Obama, Netanyahu issued a scathing rejection of the 1967 borders as "reckless."


He demanded that Obama confirm former President George w. Bush's 2004 promise, as the borders of a future Palestinian State would have to recognise the mushrooming of isrælske settlements.


An aide to the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Fatah main described Netanyahu's position as "an official rejection of Mr. Obama initiative, international legitimacy and international law.


 

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Recent developments in the Arab world turmoil (AP)

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Syria


Syrian troops and heavy armour encircle a rebellious northern city, and hundreds of people are fleeing through a single escape route and cross-border lush Turkish, strongly escalating the upheaval which threaten Syria's authoritarian regime. The town of Jisr al-Shughour timber as its bebøre cross the olive groves and travel gravel roads, trying to get away from tanks and elite forces around them, Turkish foreign minister says more than 2400 Syrians crossed the border, which is opened for the refugees.


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Yemen


The Yemeni Government troops trying to recapture areas held by Islamic militants kill 12 suspected al Qæda members in the troubled southern province of Abyan where the militants take advantage of a breakdown of the authority as a result of the Government's battle with armed tribesmen attempts to overthrow the autocratic leader of more than three decades. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has clung to power in the entire months of protests against his regime, had surgery to remove the shard of wood placed in the chest, when one of the rockets splinter a pulpit in a mosque where the President and top aides praying. Salehs condition stabilises enough to move him out of intensive care on the Saudi Arabian military hospital, where he is being treated.


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Libya


NATO's air attacks rattle Libyan capital suggests a return to the heavy NATO bombardment, which hit military installations and flattened major buildings in leader Moammar Gadhafi sprawling compound in the heart of the city. United States's Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she is aware of the "numerous and continues" overtures by people close to Gadhafi to negotiate his departure from power.


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Egypt


The last 19 victims among hundreds killed during the uprising, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak overturned is buried in Cairo, hailed as martyrs who sacrificed their lives for freedom. Their bodies in morgues lingered months Cairo's, never identified or claimed, until the authorities gave the go ahead to a municipal funeral. 846 Egyptians everything was killed during the mass street demonstrations when Mubarak feared police cracked on the demonstrators, firing many in the head and chest with live ammunition.


 

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Palestinian leaders end four years ended up (AFP)

CAIRO (AFP)-Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Ray buried hatchet at a Cairo reconciliation ceremony on Wednesday, ending a nearly four-year feud, but has angered Israel.


The Palestinians gathered in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip to celebrate the long-awaited agreement to put an end to rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza, and restore the shattered unity by deadly battles in June 2007.


But in London, isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the first stage of the tour is aimed convincing European leaders that agreement between Abbass secular Fatah faction and the Islamic Hamas as the Jewish State is boycotting as a terrorist organisation will be disastrous for the Middle East peace.


Abbas said the Palestinians had decided to "turn black since division forever," as he joined Ray and leaders of other Palestinian factions in completing the long-awaited agreement pressed on Tuesday.


"We are certain of success as long as we are United ... Reconciliation clears the way not only to put the Palestinian house in order, but also to a fair peace, "he added.


The Palestinian President said the isrælske prime minister must now "choose between (building) settlements and peace," and accused Israel of opposing Palestinian reconciliation accord as "a pretext to avoid peace negotiations."


He VAT collection Netanyahu's insistence that his Palestinian Authority must choose between unity with Hamas, which does not recognise Israel and peace with the Jewish State.


Abbas has refused to resume peace talks with Israel until it restores a moratorium on all settlement construction in the occupied territory, which the Palestinians want for their promised State.


Reconciliation agreement contains provisions on the formation of an interim Government of Nations to lay the foundations for the presidential elections and parliamentary elections within a year.


Negotiations on the new Government line-up was due to start immediately after the Wednesday ceremony.


The surprise deal, which was announced last week, comes after 18 months of fruitless negotiations.


In Gaza City gathered around 300 people waving Palestinian flags in a festive atmosphere to celebrate the deal, dancing and hiring from four crackers.


"The Palestinians want to end the Division," said a banner held aloft the crowd.


Many participants waved green Hamas flags, and have also raised the flag yellow Fatah movement which has been banned in Gaza since the Islamists ousted Abbas loyalists from the area four years ago.


"This is the day we have all been waiting for," shouted an announcer to klakører crowd.


Support rallies were also planned in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where Abbas has his headquarters.


But Israel reacted angrily, threatening to withhold the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues until it could be sure that no money would go to Hamas.


Next his London talks, Netanyahu told Britain's former premier Tony Blair, now the Middle East peace envoy for the great diplomatic players that Abbas must "completely cancel" reconciliation deal, which he said had a "hard blow to the peace process."

Isræls home front defense minister, Matan Vilnai, told public radio Wednesday, Abbas had "made a mistake in agreeing to this agreement, when Hamas is in a situation of vulnerability, which explains why it made moves towards reconciliation."

The Minister said Abbas should have insisted on a "clear statement from Hamas recognises Israel and condemn the terrorism before the signing."

But the Palestinian President made clear Tuesday that Hamas would not have to amend its charter to recognise Israel under reconciliation deal.

"It is not required by Hamas to recognise Israel. We want to form a Government of technocrats, and we will not ask Hamas to recognise Israel, "he said.

Palestinian officials have said the new Government's role will be to manage Affairs in the Palestinian territories, while the Palestine Liberation Organization, as Hamas is not a member, will remain responsible for peace negotiations with Israel.

Among the first tasks to be solved, is the creation of a higher Security Council with the task to examine ways to integrate Hamas and Fatah rival security forces and create a "professional" security service.

The agreement also calls for the establishment of an Electoral Commission Court and for the release of a number of prisoners held by the rival movements in prisons in the West Bank and in Gaza.

Reconciliation fix marks a diplomatic coup for Egypt's new Government, 11 weeks after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising.

Cairo had tried for more than a year to mediate between Fatah and Hamas, but the effort fell flat.











 

Palestinian officials put on half pay: Fayyad (AFP)

RAMALLAH, Palestinian territories (AFP)-Palestinian Authority staff will receive only half their salaries this month as donors continue to provide less money than promised, said the Palestinian Prime minister on Sunday.


Salam Fayyad, warned at a press conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority (PA) deals with a "financial crisis", because the promised donor funds were behind schedule.


"The Government has decided to pay employees half their wages due to the financial crisis that the Palestinian Authority is experiencing due to the failure of donors, including our Arab brothers, to fulfil their promises," he said.


He said employees would receive between 1,400 shekels ($ 413) and 4,500 shekels ($ 1,330) when monthly salaries paid for July, but warned that they would only receive the rest, "If the promised funds arrive."


"If this crisis continues, the Government will have to take further austerity measures," he added.


Fayyad said donors ' failure to provide promised funding had left the PA with a monthly shortfall of $ 30 million, adding that the aid has been received covers only about a third of the Government's costs.


He stressed that the economic situation will become passports increasingly precarious, and efforts to seek private funding ran aground.


"We tried to tackle the financial crisis of loans from banks and we could alleviate this problem somewhat by taking loans, but the deficits, which are accumulating from month to month, has been to the point that is can no longer be treated with bank loans," Fayyad warned.


At the end of may said Fayyad already of PA does not receive aid quickly enough to meet its spending needs and pointed fingers in particular Arab Nations, without naming them.


PA is largely dependent on foreign donors to catch up with its annual budget. It will also receive tax and customs revenues collected by Israel and delivered on a regular basis.


In may Israel temporarily halted payments in response to a lot of unity between the Fatah party, which dominates the PA and the rival Islamic movement Hamas, which runs Gaza.


Move which violated international accords signed by Israel, provoked international criticism and the Jewish State agreed shortly afterwards to resume fund transfers.


 

Friday, October 28, 2011

Palestinians grapple with the opposition plan UNITED NATIONS (AP)

RAMALLAH, West Bank – faced with opposition from the United States, a number of top officials quietly advise Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to drop plans to seek recognition for a State of Palestine in the UN this fall.


Top officials say Abbas remains committed to his plan — a result of the widespread opinion among Palestinians, two decades-and turn on-off negotiations with Israel have run their course, and that the current isrælske leadership is not a partner for peace.


Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press Thursday, said Abbas would like to "climbing from the tree" and find a mutually acceptable formula for restarting the negotiations, preferably based on the ideas presented by President Barack Obama recently.


At the same time, there is a widespread feeling that Abbas has announced his intentions so eye-catching, has left itself with little room to maneuver and can continue with the UN gambit just to avoid loss of credibility.


"We are caught by September," said an official. "We do not know what to do after that."


Concerns reflects a growing recognition of the fact that the project is problematic and the promise of a messy and unclear result which could change a little on the ground — and can backfire politically or even trigger new violence if Palestinians emerge disappointed at the outcome.


That was underscored this week when U.S. officials told a visiting Palestinian delegation to seek UN recognition, in the absence of a peace agreement was a "nonstarter" — in the latest indication that the United States would veto a Security Council decision.


"There is no clear Palestinian options," said Hani Masri, analyst, which is in close contact with Abbas ' inner circle. "Abbas go definitely to the UNITED NATIONS to maintain its credibility. But if there are other chance to come back to negotiations, he will do it ".


The Security Council, the UN's most powerful body, is charged with recommending membership for new Member States in the world body — a necessary step in the process. United States, has as one of five permanent members veto power over Council decisions.


The Palestinians has been to examine alternatives, such as asking the general Assembly, where they enjoy widespread support, on the recognition of a different kind.


The Assembly's decisions are not legally binding, and it has become increasingly clear that the approval would be a little more than a symbolic victory. Late last month said the Assembly's President, Swiss politician, Joseph Deiss, there is no way a Palestinian State could join the UNITED NATIONS without a recommendation from the Security Council.


The Palestinian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, when they discussed the sensitive negotiations, said a number of top advisers now have second thoughts on the strategy for the United Nations.


They said that among them Yasser Abed Rabbo, the No. 2 official after Abbas of the Palestinian Liberation Organization; Abbas ' Chief negotiator, Saeb fine; and Nasser al-Qidwa, a former Palestinian Envoy to the United Nations and Chief Abbas perfume business.


All three declined comment.


Earlier this week, al-Qidwa recognised borders Abbas ' strategy in a closed collection of prominent Palestinian intellectual.


Al-Qidwa said the Palestinians must continue to try to rally support for their cause in the UNITED NATIONS ", but we should distinguish between download support and obtain recognition. We can not have recognition simply because the United States will veto it, "he said, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press.


Setting the UNITED NATIONS is a centerpiece Abbas ' foreign policy since a short-lived round of peace talks collapsed in september last year after the expiry of a isrælsk slowdown in settlement construction.


The Palestinians have demanded a renewed settlement construction freeze in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim both territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel counters that the Palestinians have never laid down such a condition before and the issue of settlements should be discussed in the negotiations.

The Palestinians want the UN to approve an independent State within the pre-1967 lines.

Such a vote would have little immediate effect on the Earth, believe the Palestinians will send a strong message to Israel to withdraw. Isræls prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejects a return to the lines before 1967.

Both Obama and France have recently offered similar formulas to restart negotiations, suggesting that the future borders will be based on pre-1967 lines with mutually agreed changes.

The Palestinians have embraced both proposals. Masri, analyst, said he believes they are even prepared to drop their long-standing demand for a full settlement freeze in exchange for the Obama formula. Israel, however, have reacted coolly.

Top Palestinian and isrælske dealers were in Washington this week meeting separately with U.S. officials in search of ways to resume negotiations. There was no word of a breakthrough.

Palestinian foreign minister Riad Malki, Abbas ' point man on the UNITED NATIONS preparations, said the Palestinians "is determined" seeking UN membership in September "unless the negotiations be resumed based on Obama parameters."








 

Thursday, October 27, 2011

U.S. Captain of Gaza ship was held in ' shocking conditions ' (AFP)

Athens (AFP)-a U.S. vessel intercepted after it tried to defy a ban and sail to Gaza from Greece were held in "appalling conditions" on Sunday and have not received consular assistance, said a lawyer.


Captain John Klusmer was arrested, when U.S. boat Audacity of hope--the flagship of a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists--attempted to leave the Greek waters Friday after Athens prohibited all Gaza-bound ships from setting sail.


Klusmer was charged with a crime and ordered to appear in court on Tuesday. The US boat to Gaza organisation said he was kept imprisoned in "appalling conditions" and, as far as it was aware, had not yet received consular assistance.


New York lawyer Richard Levy--a passenger on the boat, which has visited Klusmer in prison in a port city near Athens--told furious U.S. activists that "he had no bed or toilet in his cell, and receive no food or water".


"We have offered to pay his bail, '' said passenger Robert Naiman, from the Washington-based foreign policy organization. "But we have had no indication at all that he would be allowed out of prison before Tuesday."


U.S. Embassy in Athens was not available for comment.


Audacity of hope--transporting 3,000 letters in support of the Palestinians--set sail without warning, leaving nine other ships that had hoped to sail together to challenge the Isræls blockade on Gaza.


It was quickly captured by a Coast Guard vessel with the masked, armed men on board. After a two-hour stand-off, the boat returned to a small naval port.


Passengers were free to go but originally chose to remain on board in spite of the Greek authorities.


Sunday morning they were back in Athens, "do what we can to help the captain", including "reached to members of Congress" help get Klusmer released or improve the conditions in which he is held.


Flotilla has been plagued by bureaucratic problems and two cases of "sabotage" over the last week and only four of the first ten both--two French, one Spanish and one Canadian--were in the running Sunday.


Organizers said three of the boats planned to set sail Monday morning, despite the Greek ban is in place "until further notice". Activists said they had "resigned" message content from being intercepted by the coast guard.


A fourth boat, French dignity, was going to try to sail on Sunday, but was thought to be heading to Crete, not Gaza.


The ships will sail illegally, because they have not resolved a number of bureaucratic problems, and some have had central documents confiscated by the Greek authorities.


Israel credited its "diplomatic efforts" for delays and setbacks, which have kept the vessels grounded.


"I welcome all the efforts made to stop the flotilla," said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Lieberman on Sunday.


"Success ... is the fruit of intensive contacts with States of the region and the international community," he said.


 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Recent developments in the Arab world turmoil (AP)

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Libya

NATO says it is ramping up its air attacks on military targets in western Libya, where rebel forces have claimed a string of advances through territory still largely under Moammar Gadhafi control. In the meantime, the African Union has called on Member States to disregard a warrant for Gadhafis arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against the Libyan leader. This could enable Gadhafi travel freely on the continent.

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Yemen

About 50 Yemeni soldiers missing after violent clashes with the group al-Qaida-linked Ansar al-Sharia in the southern city of Zinjibar, said a military official. Government forces do not appear to have the will to fight the militants, raising fears that al-Qaida makes significant gains. Text wrapping feature further calls to its expelled remains President Ali Abdullah Saleh bedridden in Saudi Arabia, according to a Yemeni official.

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Bahrain

Riot police in Bahrain have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters who oppose reconciliation talks between the Gulf Kingdom Sunni rulers and the Shiite-led opposition. Bahrain's main Shiite party, Al Wefaq, participating in the Government-led talks in the capital, Manama. Around 300 delegates from various political parties and Government-linked groups participate in the meetings.

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Syria

Syrian President Bashar Assad has sacked the Governor of the Central central city of Hama in apparently political payback after hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the largest demonstration yet against Assad's regime. Activists say the Governor was believed to be leaning toward the protesters, after he allegedly urged security forces to avoid another bloodbath. In the last month killed at least 65 people in Hama last month.


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US hails Shiite group to join Bahrain dialogue (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP)-the United States welcomed Bahrain national dialogue, which got under way Saturday, said the participation of the main Shiite opposition block added an "important voice" to the negotiations.


Authorities in Sunni-ruled archipelago had come under enormous pressure from their Western allies to open a dialogue with the opposition, including the Islamic National Accord Association (Al-Wefaq), after security forces crushed protests in the middle of the month-long March with military backing from Gulf neighbours.


Sentence triggered an outcry from international human rights groups and so that this year's Bahrain Grand Prix cancelled and the Mexican State credit rating cut.


Washington was encouraged by the "decision of the Al-Wefaq, Bahrain's largest opposition political society to join the national dialogue recently announced King Hamad," said State Department Mark Tones.


"Al-Wefags participation will add an important voice of Bahrain political opposition to a process that has the potential to serve as a vehicle for reform and reconciliation ... and produce reforms which will respond to the legitimate desire of Bahrain people," he said in a statement.


Dialogue, together with the King's June 29 announcement of an independent Commission to probe the bloody penalty of Röhm's anti-regime protests, is evidence that "the Government of Bahrain takes concrete steps which could contribute to national unity and stability," Toner added.


Small but strategic Bahrain, home base of the fleet the fifth us have experienced repeated bouts of unrest among its Shiite majority population and a Sunni ruling family.


 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Jobs in the Middle East

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Invest in the change of regime in the Middle East

In the light of the events unfolding in the Middle East, I thought it would be worth looking at how ETFs trade on some Exchange United States correspond to Middle East are doing, and where they can be directed here.


First of all, to recapitulate the situation, we have seen in recent weeks, the following:


1 Change of regime in Egypt


2 Protests and requests for change of regime in Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen, Tunisia


3. A number of catalysts was cited for this popular uprising, a common theme is an increase in food prices.


Gulf, an ETF consisting of publicly traded companies with their shares listed on a major stock exchange in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar or United Arab Emirates United, is an investment vehicle of interest to those interested in the trade of the scenario in the Middle East. A blow of eye to its table of prices reveals that the price of the shares in the Gulf began to decline as the revolution in Egypt has progressed. I believe that we will see here a contagion effect - which means regime change had spread throughout the Middle East - I think that we can see further price declines. In terms of techniques, I think that rallies may be a good opportunity to open short positions, particularly if the market remains under key moving averages.


In addition, while the Gulf has rallied in recent days at the time of this writing, volume has declined during this period (a case of divergence of volume). In my view, this strengthens the case for additional moves down in the Gulf. Investors and traders who wish to initiate short positions to keep an eye on the day 200 moving average, which can be used to a price level may bounce if it can be achieved.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Middle East new reports: Obama and Ahmadinejad Interaction a little different from that described

Anne Bayefsky is a militant of the human rights widely known with a CV that goes miles. In a recent report published through new MGI, described a little differently Bayefsky major events new affiliates at the opening of the General Assembly in New York City, New York. While societies affiliated to the United States are focused on applications for a connection to the United States for the attacks of September 11, described Bayefsky a Obama President of many Americans cannot see.


In the news of the Middle East , President Obama was to lead to the opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations, but he arrived late for his opening comments have been moved to a time slot later. When President Obama finally gave his opening remarks, they do not focus on clear threats of terror or security. Instead of responding to Iranian desires to achieve fully functional nuclear weapons, he addressed Ahmadinejad with an open door and a handshake. Bayefsky reported that Iranian President has rejected the offer in the same way, he rejected President Obama in the past.


Ahmadinejad has given some latitude at the opening of the General Assembly, but to what extent nations colleagues would allow Iran's President to go was unknown until conferences on America "thirst of capital and domination" transformed into claims that the Government of the United States was behind the September 11 bombings. On this, the room was almost erased.


Not all Nations left the room when Ahmadinejad suggested that the United States had something to do with 9-11. This could mean other nations feeling the same way, but only the Iranian President was willing to make the known thoughts.


 

Middle East Culture from the point of view of America


An intellectual is a man who takes more words it is necessary to say more that he knows.
Dwight d. Eisenhower

While Middle East spiral in another crisis, world leaders ask how resolve the Hezbollah and the Israel war. This situation has sent shockwaves through the international community. America stands as a loser. Muslim Arabs watching America moving and as Western imperialism. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice races to save Middle East. Us braces for another threat of a "third world war".

Let's go deeper. In reviewing this situation, a person must understand the culture of the region. America is on the Arab world in a cultural context different. In fact, it uses a Western perspective. Obviously, this perspective is presented in the media where experts from the Middle of Arab origin are absent. Therefore, the perception of the West often skews our coverage and understanding.

Finally, our American values appear to be in conflict with the international community. For example, America is the Builder of democracy. Can we, however, allow Iraq or any other country in the Middle East become an Islamic State? It is not in the interest of America. America is allied to Israel. Can America stay neutral in this conflict in the Middle East ? Would be when the values of the international community stands with a Super power?

Therefore, these international conflicts can place a global leader in disagreement with his strategic thinking and its fundamental values.

References:

Beale, Pierre, a. (2006). We faced the dilemma in crisis MIDEST.

Stone, a. (2006). Rice will seek long term patch crisis Mideast.

© 2006 by Daryl d. Green








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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Middle East crisis


Tight to the news in the Middle East the different point of view...

Crisis in the Middle East were ignited by two poles with its own gravitational field, each is as dangerous as the other due to the global potential of its spread as a deadly virus.

The West pole of gravity is the new conservatives representing by g. Bush Jr. and everything he stood for (tea party today).

(Easter pole gravity is Ahmedi Nejad and everything it represents to Hezbollah).

If one is to monitor the current crisis to try to make a more tangible understanding the cause and the effect of the events taking place in the Middle of the revolution in Iran to the invasion of the Iraq, the crisis in the Lebanon and the chaos in TunisieAu Yemen slightly Jordan and Egyptone cannot escape the fact that there is a reason associated with the events that led to the current crisis in the Middle East.

That being said; I have to focus on my personal motivation wrote this article that is not politically dictated, since I am neutral and tend to look at events from a different angle.

George W Bush junior and the conservative neo believed in the theory of constructive Chaos and sought to implement very passionately in the hope of accelerating the process of the second coming of Jesus in correlation with the revelation and the end of the prophecies of Daniel days. It is an obvious manipulation of events to serve as a biblical end...

Ahmedi Nejad and his block on the other hand following a parallel application to accelerate the coming of the Al Mahdi al Wali al Faquih that the Shi'a sect ' ies believe passionately, shared by the majority of Muslims around the world, each with their own belief leads the factors in support of this aspiration.

On the other hand, the State of Israel are governed by their own belief to use this conflict magnifying its result to achieve their goal of relating to the construction of Solomon's Temple on what would be the ruins of Al Aqsa Mosque so that they would do their final baptism as the chosen nation of God.

It is a very complex question, and happened to me to write a book on several years (Sakatat Babel) as a comparative study to tackle current events while comparing to the interpretation of prophecy and end times beliefs.

In my opinion, what is happening now is: each block strives to accelerate the entrance of their Savior expected by cause constructive chaos in the biblical region of the Middle East to help achieve their target.

Infact, it would be the least surprised me if it is discovered at a later stage that the Iran were behind the place of the events in Tunisia and in Egypt, it is useful to pay attention to the note Ahmedi Najad spoke publicly for several days ago criticizing Hosni Mubarak does step to resort to the excessive force in dealing with protesters and demonstrators, while a few months back similar demonstrations took place in Tehran and were treated in a similar way.

There are also clear evidence of Iranian support for Hezbollah to the Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine, al Hythiene in the Yemen, also at Bahrain.

The Iran has an immediate benefit of what happens as a deterrent to any military attack to end their nuclear program.

Israel can benefit in the short term if they decide to this neighbourhood chaos to go ahead with its plan to re build Solomon's Temple.

Arabs have a hope to enjoy a true democracy if they learn the past and use this major change in their own back yards.

Who knows; There could be a positive out come of all this is happening in the Holy Land and its biblical periphery.

Those of you who want peace and well-being








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Friday, October 21, 2011

Middle East Gender Plan

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The psychologist J.M. Prescott found a link between sexual repression and aggression. Writing in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Preston noted that "societies forbidding premarital sex are plagued by acts of rage." Prescott also found a link between sexual repression and ".. .a greater likelihood of killing and torturing enemies."

Islam does not support sexual liberation. Unless you happen to be a sheik with a pleasure palace and a a dozen mistresses, life for the average unmarried Muslim male in the middle east doesn't offer a lot of opportunity. The society doesn't encourages it... No. billboard ads with skimpily dressed babes, no. sex toy stores or adult video outlets, no. racy magazines in the local store. In societies such as Saudi Arabia most of the females are veiled. A guy would have to be blessed with x - ray vision in order to get a glimpse of anything more erotic than say - an ankle or elbow.

This state-of-sexual-affairs is bound to add to the frustration level of young Muslim males with testosterone raging and adrenalin driving up the potential for explosive outbursts. As we know from TV footage, explosions of rage are common occurrences in the Muslim world. It's not unusual to see crowds of males channeling their energy into mass frenzies at funerals, flag-and-effigy-burning-demos or just to make a point about something they don't like it the news.

Internet porn is out of reach to most. Unlike Western nations, you can't assume that the average person living in in say Libya or Iran, will have ready access to a personal PC. In any case even those who do have PC's are often up against censors with filtering devices designed to prevent the encroachment of Western sex demons. Amongst those citizens of Muslim countries who have access to PC's and the software to get around the net, a few telling trends have been noted.

The Muslim world is fanatically obsessed with sex, according to statistics from Google Trend sources. If you type "sex" into Google Trends you can obtain a ranked list of cities, countries and languages in which the term was used most frequently.

Well surprise, surprise... turns out the "decadent" Westerners were not the main sex seekers on Google.

According to a Spiegel article entitled "Sex and Taboos in the Islamic World", Pakistanis search for "sex" online most frequently, followed closely by Egyptians. Iran and Morocco were in fourth and fifth place, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia eighth seventh.

As any who are acquainted with Islamic sexual taboos well know, homosexuality is considered the ultimate moral horror, and is vigorously outlawed. In Iran men have even been tortured and executed for the "crime" of being gay. So it was interesting to discover that when the terms "sex boy" and "man boy sex" were entered into Google Trends, the top four top search countries listed were Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

It's pretty evident that despite the lack of sexual freedoms in Muslim societies, there is a voracious appetite behind the scenes for sex, sex and more sex. And maybe that is exactly the remedy - more sex. Move over Condoleezza Rice, perhaps the real key to peace in the middle east is sexual relaxation.

Bush should consider appointing Hugh Hefner as an honorary General and send in a few battalions of Playboy bunnies. It's hard to imagine how they could be less successful at quelling the insurgency than the strategies that have been used thus far.

No. wonder countries such as Iran banned YouTube and filter content. If Iranian youth of martyr-like provision were free to surf the sexual web they might give up the desire to blow themselves up. How tragic would that be? The rage that creates suicide bombers would be notched down a few critical degrees. Suddenly the lure of hypothetical virgins located on a plane of supernatural existence wouldn't can't be so ardently wished for. I mean heck, why risk the odds of getting metaphysical sex when you have Sylvia Saint and Jenna Jameson right there in your room.

Sexual freedoms may indeed be a remedy for middle eastern male rage if it was given half the chance. But the wily mullahs have figured that one out and that's why there are routine sermons blasting Western decadence and buzzing away removing filters data that carries the threat of a sneak attack sex. Keeping their citizenry in a condition of guilt and loathing means the rage can be whipped up at a moment's notice, and when the call goes out for volunteers to blow themselves up, officials won't be kept waiting.

The prophet Mohammad seemed to be more liberated than many of his followers. He done said - "In this world, I loved women, pleasant scents and prayer". Notice that "women" comes before "prayer".

Perú Muslim youth who want to flirt and date have to be inventive. In Rabat, Morocco, some exchange furtive kisses in the shadow of the quay walls in the city's harbor district. Others in Cairo make out in cars on the notorious and frowned upon "shari al-hubb" or "street of Love".

In some Muslim jurisdictions you can be arrested for having a condom in your pocket. The Spiegel article mentions an Egyptian journalist named Ali al-Gundi who was stopped by police while he was driving with his girl friend. Ali had forgotten to bring his driving license with him and they were both placed in jail. When the police found a condom, they insisted on viewing his girl friend as a prostitute. Ali claims that if the officers had been less sexually frustrated themselves, the couple's trivial "offences" would likely have been overlooked.

The greatest obstacle to even a minimum amount of sexual freedom is Sharia law and entrenched Islamic morality. The taboos against sexual freedom are so profound in strict Muslim societies such as Saudi Arabia, that if an unmarried woman is discovered in the company of a man who is not a relative, she risks being taken into custody and subjected to an examination to determine if she had sex recently. This type of regulation makes even Victorian England seem liberated by comparison.

So long as sexual freedoms are censored and driven underground in the middle east, male energy will find an outlet in rage and conflict. Having said that, obviously no. amount of sexual freedom will solve the political problems of that war torn region. But perhaps... just maybe... instead of rage and suicide, a more moderate and reasonable mood might prevail if young Muslim guys Katherine ain't walking sexual pressure cookers primed to explode.

In the meantime, instead of dropping propaganda leaflets, Bush might be better advised to hire Hef as a consultant and air drop a few thousand Playboys.








Aidan Maconachy is a freelance writer and artist based in Ontario. You can visit his blog at http://aidanmaconachyblog.blogspot.com


Thursday, October 20, 2011

The blood of fools is to pollute the sands of the Middle East


What is - this with all the shock on religion and all these wars in the Middle East in the 2000s? It is incredible that the cultures and civilizations can learn from their mistakes, because they are so busy killing each other, with cheating and Machiavellian tactics that they prevent their culture to come in the current period.

As the third world war of approaches and the blood of fools is to pollute the sands of the Middle East , one has to ask why? What is this anyway? Some old text and some ancient religion that person cannot simply empty and move forward with their lives? Why people insist on themselves blowing for a figure of literature in a text that they probably can still read and rely on someone else to tell them what he said?

Is there that a doubt that the y will be more wars in the Middle East in this decade? The Syria and the Iran, and it is doubt that the blood of fools is to pollute the sands of the Middle East. Glance that sand is already the color, it is for a reason and has no need to be painted read disruptive humans because some led countless masses in a March of death to the radical cult as beliefs? Someone will hit some meaning in these people, or have they already hit the head on the floor enough already? Take account of this in 2006.








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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Iran is really undermining peace in the Middle East


As most of the United States people are looking far Middle East and the rest of the world - and to the tragic events of Tucson, there are some very serious developments happening. Right now, we have hundreds of shot to the Brazil people and the massive floods in Australia also. But this is not all, did you know that the representatives of Hezbollah in the Lebanon, quit and walked out of Parliament - essentially close the leadership of the Government.

Worse still, is the reason behind it, that they were told by the Iran to leave the school. During this time, cooperative Hezbollah are training how to SCUD missiles on a military base in Syria. Last year they have clandestinely lots for missiles, to the Lebanon even if they have not made since the last war. However, Hamas has on their side. The Iran is also very well (continually) of undermining our efforts to help the new Iraqi Government to control and stabilize things.

The other day I was discussing this with international knowledge, and they asked me; "This which would make Iran stop undermining." Difficult to say, as it really is a serious matter and the worst Iran believes he has the right to participate, and they are Shia and Sunnis don't like. Iran so, will always be a problem, and hopes to stop sectarian violence is therefore a hard fought road. Some say that it will never be y civility complete streets, unless the Iraq dates back to the decision with an iron-fist, which nobody really wants to.

Now the Iran is a real problem and they are completely undermine peace in the Middle East, and if they are not made to stop the instigator, it is difficult to see how things will not degenerate in the future, perhaps not completely out of control. Now, Israel has pumped up its military force along their borders, some believe that he could attack the military base of the Syria, which is Hezbollah training officers. Fundamentally, being with the help of the Iran Hezbollah has been recharged itself with more missiles and rockets, this longer time to address Israel.

The Iran strategy usually includes the use of proxy terrorist and insurgents to destabilize things. They are thus in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Lebanon. Some military experts believe even that the Iran and the Venezuela are now in collusion with one another, perhaps proxy terrorist training to attack the United States. It is difficult to say how much happens, but the Exchequer now seems to expand on the world and the Iran is undermining peace. Please consider this.








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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Middle East and bilateral treaties of Europe investment remodeling

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Most Middle Eastern countries in the Persian Gulf and around the Mediterranean have signed Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with European countries, in particular, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and, to a lesser extent, Spain and the United Kingdom. These treaties aim to protect foreign investments from arbitrary expropriation and provide for dispute settlement procedures if these are required. Dispute settlement can involve the two signatory states only, but also empower private companies to have recourse to investor-to-state international legal arbitration. The future of the EU's BITs, however, is currently being redefined in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. Indeed, the new Lisbon Treaty that has organized the European Union (EU) since December 2009 now gives the authorities in Brussels exclusive rights to negotiate international deals on foreign direct investment (FDI). What does this mean for the Middle East?

First, some background. Although the EU is a single customs territory with exclusive rights to negotiate and sign international trade agreements, be it World Trade Organization (WTO) deals or bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), the right to sign treaties regulating foreign investment with third countries has traditionally been jealously guarded by member states. These states have pursued their own policies to suit their individual economic strategies or to maintain privileged relationships with powerful partners. But times have changed. With the rise of challenging economic powers such as China or Russia and other crucial emerging markets, Europeans have felt the need to pool power to convince their partners to open their markets for investment and to ensure their assets are adequately protected. For outsiders too, it will become easier to deal with one single partner on FDI, especially in the services sector, rather than navigate 27 different entities that are supposed to be one single market but are often a patchwork of diverging regulations.

The drafters of the Lisbon Treaty meant to allow the EU not only to sign investment liberalization deals, but also so-called "post-establishment" agreements regarding protection of investments, which is what BITs do. The EU's 27 member states have signed about 1,700 BITs, of which around 1450 are in force. Under the new treaty, it is likely that the process leading to a future BIT will operate like the 2007 US-EU Open Skies agreement. Here, the EU agreement replaced and superseded all other bilateral agreements on flight rights signed between individual member states and the United States. But before the Brussels machinery comes up with its own BIT, the first major challenge is to clarify the legal status of all the existing BITs. For both practical and political reasons, these cannot just be brushed aside in one stroke.

The EU Commission, the body that negotiates trade deals, is drafting a proposal on how to "grandfather" all these agreements, i.e. to integrate member state BITs into EU law. But this arrangement might require adjustments to certain treaties. Furthermore, the political process surrounding grandfathering will not be as straightforward as some might have hoped.

The Commission is likely to put conditions on treating certain BITs as compatible with EU law. In previous legal battles with Austria, Sweden and Finland, the Commission has used the European Court of Justice's opinions to make these countries change BIT clauses or abandon BITs that allowed unlimited transfer of profits across borders. Under EU law, special circumstances, such as a balance-of-payments crisis or financial sanctions against a third country, should permit restrictions on profit transfers. The Commission might dig out more clauses to make a point about compatibility with EU law. Some member states will be reluctant to let their external FDI policies be determined by Brussels and are likely to pick a fight. Some experts predict that the parties to the process might resort to the European Court of Justice to clarify Brussels versus the member states' powers on the matter.

Now enter the EU Parliament. Since December last year, it has equal powers to the Council of member states to decide on trade and investment policy. Certain Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), mostly on the left side of the political spectrum, have already signaled that they will want to put conditions on grandfathering BITs. Not all member state BITs cater for investor-to-state arbitration proceedings, but a growing number do. For ideological reasons, some MEPs oppose the principle of investor-to-state dispute settlement, so the matter might become politicized. Certain MEPs will insist on conditioning grandfathering on the introduction of environmental, ethical or labor clauses.

Given the still very patchy power configuration among the different institutions under the new treaty, it is unclear how this "Battle of the BITs" will ultimately play out. So: What are the implications of this centralization of European investor protection policies for Middle Eastern policy-makers? From a Middle Eastern perspective, this will have both up and downsides. On the one hand, the EU might in the future be much more demanding on its partners as to the degree of protection of its investments. If investor protection, and even procedures for investor-to-state dispute settlement, is included in future bilateral free trade agreements, the EU will be able to condition better access to its markets on strong commitments by its partners to sign up to these clauses. On the other hand, as many Middle Eastern countries have become major international investors, it will be much easier for them to have their own investments guaranteed. There are very few Middle Eastern BITs with the new EU member states, for example, where there is substantial need for foreign investment, but where the business environment tends to be less favorable than in an average Western European economy, and therefore investments not always as secure. It might well be in the interest of Middle Eastern investors to have only one interlocutor-the authorities in Brussels-to deal with FDI matters in the 27 member states.

But all this will take time. We are still quite far from a model "EU BIT," as some have been predicting, or an equivalent of the NAFTA Chapter 11 and its bilateral investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, integrated into the next EU bilateral trade deal. The EU will move slowly. 2010, at least, will be a year of legal clarification. Furthermore, it must also be clear that these new powers of the EU do not extend to portfolio investment. Financial services in the EU are not fully integrated and regulation is not centralized-even if the EU has attempted to provide a framework. Therefore, Sovereign Wealth Funds and private funds from the Middle East will need to continue to deal with individual member states to see to it that their interests are protected.

First published: Friday 23 April 2010








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Saturday, October 15, 2011

The new Middle East is very like the former

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Now that the guns in Lebanon are silent, it is time for the recriminations to commence. In Israel, the knives are already out for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The back-seat tank commanders are already questioning the tactics used in this war, especially the initial reliance on air power to cripple Hizbolla. In the West, particularly in Britain and the US, questions are being raised about the failure to call for an immediate ceasefire at the beginning of the conflict. And the biggest questions of all: Why was the war waged in the first place and what will be the lasting legacy of the four-and-a-half weeks of fighting?

In many ways, this was a strange war. It begun with a fairly routine incursion by Hizbolla into northern Israel and the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. In the immediate aftermath, Israel's efforts at rescuing the two were dealt an embarrassing blow with the loss of a tank and 8 soldiers to the guerillas. This seemingly innocuous challenge to Israel's military domination of the region set the stage for a war that seemed to target the very people that Israel was proclaiming it was not at war with, the people of Lebanon. It was a war in which more than 30,000 troops were eventually deployed, supported by artillery and preceded by a massive air campaign targeting civilian infrastructure, to fight what Israel had estimated to be at most 5,000 Hizbolla militants concentrated in south Lebanon. In spite of the overwhelming numerical and technological superiority of the Israelis, they were unable to overrun the Hizbolla positions and failed in their attempt to create a buffer zone south of the Litani river. In many cases, fighting was still being reported within a few kilometers of the Israeli border. This is in stark contrast to the invasion of 1982 when it took just 7 days for Israeli troops to make it to the outskirts of Beirut. Finally, it was a war that was ended through negotiations, not between the warring parties, but between the US and France at the UN Security Council.

A closer look, though, reveals that things were not always as they seemed. Seymour Hersh, in an article in the NewYorker magazine, alleged that prior to the start of the war, the Israelis had drawn up, and shared with the US, plans to attack and destroy Hizbolla, who were amassing a huge arsenal of rockets on the Jewish nation's northern border. The article, which quotes current and former White House officials, alleges that the Bush Administration considered an attack on Hizbolla to be a dry run for a contemplated military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and that the US Air Force was ordered to help polish up the plan which eventually called for "strategic bombing" or air strikes on civilian infrastructure designed to turn the Lebanese population against the militants. Apparently, this was to provide a pattern for the bombing of Iran with the aim of crippling its nuclear programme and to turn the population against the ruling Mullahs. This seems to be what US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meant when she characterised the conflict as "the birth pangs of a New Middle East".

In an earlier piece I argued that this was a war of choice. It is now clear that the capture of the two soldiers was simply used as a pretext for the implementation of the preconceived military plan. This explains the reluctance of the US and Britain to call for a ceasefire as well as the stalling action of the two during the Rome Conference and the Security Council negotiations. After all, Israel had promised to deliver victory in 35 days. But as the war dragged on, it became increasingly obvious that they had badly miscalculated. Hizbolla were not going with the script and as the war dragged on, many Lebanese and Arabs, even those who initially had no love for Hizbolla, were starting to regard the militants as a legitimate resistance to Israeli aggression. With the rest of the world appalled by TV pictures of dead civilians and bombed out roads and bridges, and the pressure to end the fighting intensifying, Bush relented and pulled the plug.

Who will emerge as the winners in this conflict? Certainly not the Israelis who have not only failed in their declared aims of crippling Hizbolla and rescuing the soldiers but have also had their image of invincibility severely undermined. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has already described them as the laughing stock of the Middle East. Certainly not the Americans, whose plans for a "new Middle East" have been thwarted. The option of a military strike against Iran is, at least for now, definitely off the table as their generals are forced rethink their strategy.

Hizbolla, Syria and Iran have clearly come out on top. Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbolla leader, has claimed a strategic victory and is being hailed as hero in many parts of the Arab world. Indeed, he is now being compared to Egypt's Gamal Nasser. The Syrians and Iranians have broken out of the diplomatic isolation that Washington sought to impose on them and are now considered crucial to the achievement of a lasting peace in the region. The lack of a clear Israeli military victory has fundamentally altered the strategic balance in the Middle East, sidelined the pro-Western "moderate" regimes of the region and rallied the Arab street, long used to military humiliation at the hands of the Israelis, around Hizbolla, and by implication, Iran and Syria.

So what are we to expect of the coming days? There has been a lot of speculation regarding this. The UN Security Council resolution 1701 provides the framework for a "cessation of hostilities" and not for a long-term ceasefire. Many in the region regard it as temporary postponement of the fight.

Here's my take. In southern Lebanon, expect an Israeli withdrawal to the Blue Line as the international peace-keeping force and the Lebanese Army deploy as well as an exchange of prisoners. There will be a tenuous peace, with perhaps some localised skirmishes, as both sides regroup and rearm, the international arms embargo against Hizbolla notwithstanding. The politically strengthened militants have indicated that they will not disarm. It is unlikely that the UN troops will have the stomach to forcefully disarm them and the Lebanese government will not risk civil war to do so.

In the short term, Israel's flirtation with civilian government seems to be over. There is a strong likelihood that the ruling Kadima-Labour coalition will crumble as Israelis take out their frustration on Prime Minister Olmert as well as Defense Minister Amir Peretz (they did the same to Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan after the Yom Kippur War of 1973). This will strengthen the hand of the hardliners in Likud, such as former PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who will probably be planning a vote of no-confidence in the government. I expect that there will be early elections and the determination to redeem the country's tarnished military image will lead to a preference for generals and men of military experience and a more insular Israel, unwilling to make the necessary concessions to achieve peace.

The new military self-confidence of the Arab world, and the dysfunctional peace process (Assad has already declared it a failure), will continue to marginalize the moderates who advocate an accommodation with Israel, and feed more youths into the ranks of the militants whose prestige is at an all-time high. Across the region, many will look to Iran and Syria for leadership. There will be a hardening of positions, and possibly further instigation of conflict with Israel and the West.

The Neo-Conservatives in Washington will be licking their wounds but are unlikely to give up their ambitions of "sorting out" Iran before Bush leaves office. With the UN deadline for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities set to expire at the end of August, the stage for the next battle is being set. The Iranians will undoubtedly refuse to comply and the US will push for sanctions (their record with Iraqi WMD may come back to haunt them here). The Russians and Chinese, both veto-wielding Permanent Members of the Security Council and mindful of their economic ties to Iran, are unlikely to go along with anything greater than a slap on the wrist. With this, the UN hating neo-cons will have the excuse they need for a pre-emptive, unilateral (and substantially revised) military strike on Iran. What happens then? Clash of civilizations? Armageddon?

There is however another path. The Israelis may come to accept, as they evidently did following the Yom Kippur War, that their poltical objectives are unlikely to be achieved through military means. The 1973 war laid the ground for the Camp David Accords in which Egypt and Jordan repudiated the "Three No's" of the Khartoum conference ("no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it") that had been the bedrock policy of the Arab world since 1967 and signed peace treaties with the Jewish states. It seems clear that Israel, which had suffered a military shock in the beginning stages of the war, lost its cocky assurance borne of the Six-Day War and acknowledged the resurgent power and morale of the Arabs. They were thus more amenable to a peace process. Similarly, though boosted by a string of early victories, the Arab eventually states lost the war (and more land) and had to finally accept that they would have to come to an accommodation with the Jewish entity. While war still lay in the future, it would be accurate to say (as Fouad Ajami wrote a year after Anwar Sadat's famous trip to Jerusalem to address Israel's parliament) that the Middle East conflict was "no longer about Israel's existence, but about its boundaries."

The aftermath of the present conlict presents a similar opportunity for a full, final and comprehensive peace process which may well lead to a full, final and comprehensive peace. This, however, calls for what Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese PM, described as "historic men". It would mean the abandoning of Washington's current policy, which is heavily biased towards Israel, and negotiations with all parties to the conflict, including the unsavoury regimes of Iran and Syria, during which all issues would be placed on the table. Such an eventuality would not justify the death, suffering and destruction of the last few weeks. but it would surely mean it had not been in vain.









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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

At the end of the Syria decrees on emergency rule

21 April 2011, last updated at 10: 43 Boys hold a banner during a demonstration in the Syrian port city of Baniyas on 17 April 2011 -YOU and the Syrian authorities are trying to success when you try to get rid of an unprecedented wave of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed 48 years of emergency rule, the laws, decrees, orders, demonstrations.

The move was a mere formality after the Government, the right to the lifting of emergency rule in two days ago.


Repeal of emergency legislation was a key demand of the Klimaflüchtlinge. The abolition of the State security courts and citizens to protest peacefully.


But prominent opposition figure Haitham al-Maleh said the move was "useless", Reuters news agency reported.


He said an independent judiciary and the accountability for security evaluation methods was necessary in order to allow the move to meaningful one.


The Syrian thousands of new political freedoms has been taken in response to the demand of the streets in recent weeks, inspired by Arab uprisings in other parts of the world.


Rights groups say more than 200 people have been killed.


In Thursday's historic decrees, State TV and the Syrian Arab Republic, the News Agency (Sana) President Assad:

The suspension in 1962 visas for emergency lawEnacted the peaceful demonstrationAbolished of State security courts, the new law

BBC: n Owen Bennett-Jones, who is to monitor the events in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, says, people have to wait and see what the Government's plans are.


The wording of the report, that the protests have yet to be approved by the Minister of the Interior.

Opposition activists have called for mass protests after Friday prayers across the country. If people take, our contact person is the Government's intentions, says early in the test.

OUR says, Syria also watching to see whether the Government back to include other legislation such as anti-terrorist laws.

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Ammar Qurabi rights activist, welcomed the move but told Reuters the other measures are required to comply with the provisions, such as the prisoners detained during the unrest.


But the Move was rejected by Mr. Maleh.


"The problem for the communities of the elite and the security is put into circulation in the hands of the judiciary and that the legislation on exemption from their shall be accountable to the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the security forces," he told Reuters.


Abdel Halim Khaddam, former Syrian Vice are based in Paris, which became one of the most trenchant Mr. Assad regime critics told BBC Arabic: "Syria does not have anything to do with the crisis in the presence or absence of a State of emergency.


"Status is not an exception, that the arrests of the people and the rest they jail and it is not a State of emergency, that people will start," Mr Khaddam said.


 

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismNaomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.

"At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves? Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater? After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts? New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened." Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes "produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today." Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld.

There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling No Logo, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --Kim Hughes

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Bahrain criticized the Crackdown

21 April 2011, last updated at 19: 17 Caroline Hawley -ET, Caroline Hawley Body of Bahraini who died in police custody BBC News rights groups say four people have died, human rights groups are expressing growing concern about the maintenance of security crackdown in Bahrain.

Campaign group Physicians for human rights report has called for an international investigation of the use of "excessive force".


It says, at least among those arrested are 32 medics after the start of the protests.


The Government denied the reports were "false", suggest that the doctors have been arrested or detained without distinction.


However, for those who had been careful in the management of the offices of the block-which has been "overrun with political and sectarian activities"-were the subject of the investigation, the spokesman said.

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Human rights workers to talk about climate change growing fear of Bahrain.


Physicians for human rights has argued that some doctors have been in the middle of the night in their homes as the legend of the men.

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organizations have so far failed to understand is that some of the most important Bahrain's. day-care services had not been the political and sectarian activities "
End Quote Maysoon Sabkar Government spokesman reported hundreds of people have been detained are doctors and prominent human rights activist. Others have lost their jobs to take part in the protests.

Rights groups, that many of those arrested have been held to their whereabouts Unknown, arbitrary, and that four of the prisoners have died in custody.


Physicians for human rights says, in the opinion of the medics have been allocated for arrest for surrender purposes because they have been treated the wounded Klimaflüchtlinge and see the evidence of abuses by security forces.


The International Committee of the Red Cross to visit prisoners in March after the request. It has been a reply.


For mounting concern in the middle of the Amnesty International has called on Bahrain's, the allies in order to put an end to what it calls by pressing the spiralling human rights crisis.

"Malicious propaganda"

William Hague, British Foreign Secretary, called on the Bahraini authorities to act in accordance with the law.


He said the arrests of opposition figures, the deaths due to torture allegations and parental responsibility, the denial of medical reports were very troubling.


However, Government spokesman Sabkar Maysoon, Physicians for human rights said the allegations were "completely FALSE".


"What have so far failed to understand some of the most important Bahrain's in the management of the locations, including Salmaniya medical complex, services had exceeded the political and sectarian activities," he said.


"After this propaganda of malware, the suspension of the services, medical care, severely endangering the life of isolation and spreading.


"This was completely unacceptable behaviour of the standard. These are responsible for, and organized into a proper, legal manner, "he said.


 

Sunday, October 9, 2011

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The Kingdom [Blu-ray]Set in Saudi Arabia, The Kingdom is a political action thriller with good acting and wonderful visuals. Its so-so script, though, at times meanders aimlessly until a good explosion jolts the viewer's attention back to the screen. Jamie Foxx stars as FBI special agent Ronald Fleury, who leads an elite team into Saudi Arabia to find the terrorists who attacked American employees working in the Middle East. He has been given the unlikely deadline of five days to infiltrate the compound, with just his wit and his crew, which includes forensics expert Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner), explosives guru Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), and intelligence analyst Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman). It's unclear how helpful smarmy U.S. diplomat Damon Schmidt (Jeremy Piven) will be, but Fleury knows enough to surmise that the media-hungry Schmidt might not be completely trustworthy. Foxx and Garner have wonderful screen presence, but it's Bateman and Piven who get the best lines. Director Peter Berg peppers The Kingdom with actors he has worked with in the past. Berg, who guest-starred on Alias opposite Garner, casts Tim McGraw in a small role here. (The country singer also had a co-starring role in Berg's 2004 film Friday Night Lights.) And Kyle Chandler and Minka Kelly--two of Berg's lead actors from the Friday Night Lights television series, , make appearances in The Kingdom. The action sequences he creates are impressive and generate a sense of panic that The Kingdom producer Michael Mann (Miami Vice) undoubtedly applauds. While a tauter script would've rounded out the action nicely, the action in many cases does speak for itself. --Jae-Ha Kim

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

The top 15 Tips for making purchases in the Middle East


It is a well known fact that every vacation includes the pleasure of shopping. Even difficult you could promise yourself that you will be able to resist the bargains (who often become clutter around the House after a few months), however you will end up in the souvenir shop for shopping "little" for your loved ones. If you travel to the Turkey, Egypt or the Morocco, it becomes hard to resist this incentive. As someone who frequently goes to the Middle East, I would like to share some of my personal experiences with North American travellers who intend to visit these countries:

(1) First rule: always negotiate in bazaars and Souks. Sellers of carpets, jewellery and leather shops work on basis of the commission. If ever accept the offer from the first or the second. Sometimes you can even get up to 70% discount on the original price.

(2) Try to judge the price by how much you would be willing to pay for it in your country of origin. Set the price in your mind and to y. On the other hand, always keep, in your mind, the value of the local currency. Try to think of the local currency; most of the articles may appear good markets when converted into USD, but could be very expensive for local populations. Therefore buy like a local.

(3) Most vendors include multiple languages, not to talk about what that is in front of them.

(4) Power use of "No thanks!": at least learn this expression in the local language and use it when you are harassed. Smile and walk.

(5) Keep out of sight credit cards and your own currency. It is easier to haggle over a price with your local currency "limited".

(6) Guides get commission on your purchases. If you are not satisfied with the price, try to come back to your free day and check the element similar to other stores. If another golden rule: having a free shopping day!

(7) Top tourist sites such as Khan El-Khalili usually visited in tours of Cairo or Grand Bazaar in Istanbul will be more expensive prices. Discover the residential areas of shopping for the best deals.

(8) For the items where quality is important are trying to find a fixed price store. You can pay little more but the quality will be higher.

Haggling 9) is necessary if you buy items of high value, such as gold and jewelry, but it is not always helpful with goods of low value the time and effort.

(10) Shops in the Middle East prefer cash. If you pay with cash instead of a credit card, you must have more power to obtain a good reduction.

(11) Always shop autour. Never buy in the first shop; You can always return. Traders try to persuade you that they offer the best value, but will not be offended when you say that you want to look around and come back.

(12) During the purchase of gold and silver negotiate on the price per gram, not the price per article.

(13) Usually little grocery shops, café, supermarket chains will be have fixed prices and bargaining is not accepted.

(14) Traders will show great hospitality. They say that the purchase is not necessary, they will invite you to their shop, offers a tea, coffee; in the end, you'll feel so much shame to leave without buying what either. Do not fall into this trap.

(15) If you buy more than one element or shopping with a group, you can haggle for a greater discount.








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Friday, October 7, 2011

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The Middle East is a decent Environmentally Safe Place for human wars


Where human beings humans must have their wars? In the future, that they are in space, today, they are on the surface of the planet where we live. Is there a good place and a bad place to have a war? Similarly, if you are an environmentalist, I guess that you would say; Yes! Of course, you can also be anti-war too.

OK, so having a war is a bad idea right? Yes, but if you have one, Middle East , with all its desert regions is not a bad place to stage a human conflict. Consider whether you will be the negative environmental effects of human wars. Think to the types of wars of impacts on the environment as burned vehicles, sautéed field, fire, agent orange, mustard gas, land mines, napalm, air gas, depleted uranium missiles end guns, oil on the fire fieldsetc...

Did you know that 80% of 1900 and 2000 AD wars fought in the areas of robust biodiversity? This means that us has caused problems for other species all in the name of killing our own. Therefore, if we have a war where humans are busy doing something also stupid that kill their own species, the least that we could do is let all the other species from there!

Well, you know what? We are lucky because it looks like with any military race to the Middle East with countries such as the Iraq, Iran, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, etc., that's probably where the next big war will take place. Please consider this and realize that this author does not mean to glorify the war anyway, simply raise a thought provoking theme.








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