As Israel is threatening to attack Iran to halt its alleged pursuit of the bomb, the beating of the war-drums has become so loud that, to avoid hearing them, you would need to hide inside a cave in Africa. And then put in earplugs. The noise is so loud that…
The reason that there’s no plausible end-game in Syria anytime soon — and that thousands more Syrians may be fated to die before the conflict is ended — is that the Assad regime is fighting a very different war to the one envisaged by many of its opponents. For Arab and…
Our prime minister has suddenly reached elevated status in Western capitals. Not so long ago, the same voices were accusing Recep Tayyip Erdogan an of changing Turkey’s orientation, of aspiring to establish an Islamic Republic. Now they are applauding him. Why? What happened to turn the tides so dramatically? What we have been witnessing over…
Syria army defector Hussein Harmoush in TV ‘confession’ Col Harmoush accused activists of “empty promises” Syria Crisis Cracks showing Why the world has waited Who are the shabiha? Deadlock as pressure builds A top Syrian officer who defected from the army and fled to Turkey has turned up in Damascus, retracting key claims about the…
9-11 and the United States’ Empire of Language and Ideas
Robert Fisk: Now the Arab Spring becomes an Arab Summer Saturday, 16 July 2011 Rex Features Motorised French troops in Syria, near the border with Palestine, in June 1941. After the Second World War the French were persuaded to abandon their former mandated territories Syrians shot down in the streets across…
Assad A Mockery In Eyes of Syrians Syrians watch their president, Bashar Assad, promise reforms in a TV speech. Syrian President Bashar Assad, following in the footsteps of other beleaguered Arab autocrats, promised reforms and threatened protesters in a televized speech. But German commentators join the growing number of observers who feel Assad’s regime may be running…
The Saudi threat is intended to present U.S. policymakers with a choice between U.S. values and U.S. interests. In his speech last week on the Middle East, President Barack Obama left little doubt that America stands with the people of the region in their demand for change. This puts the U.S. on a collision course…
ARABICA – A Daily Shot Of What the Arab World is Saying/Hearing/Sharing A R A B I C A ??????? By Kristen Gillespie BLOOD *As the Syrian uprising gets more serious, the logo for the facebook group “Syrian Revolution against Bashar al-Assad 2011” is becoming proportionately bloody. The…