Author: saqeralkhalifa
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GCC Love, It’s Complicated!
This week was very hectic for me. Not physically, but the mental demand was massive. Back in the days when I was in the Army, I had enough time to do a lot. Somehow, I found time to do everything, including hours every day to keep up with preparing for my next set of lectures,…
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@NickKristof vs @IAA_Bahrain
Here’s the thing, I am friends with Nick Kristof and have been reading his articles for years before he became interested in Bahrain. I got to know Nick when I approached him to offer presenting Bahrain and the news floating around from my point of view. He accepted and we hung around in one of…
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Common Sense 101
In 2001, I graduated from The Citadel and went directly to pursue my Masters in International Relations at The American University in Washington, D.C. There, I met Dr. Clovis Maksoud, a former Ambassador of the Arab League in the United Nations. In one of the courses I took with him, he said something that till…
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Shady Foreign Policy Magazine
In most cases it would be a ‘D’, but nothing better than a ‘C’. This is the grade I give two articles written by David Kenner and another by Josh Rogin in ‘Foreign Policy.’ They both came to Bahrain to attend the 8th IISS Regional Security Summit (Manama Dialogue), which ran from 7 to 9…
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America’s Failed Palestinian Policy
By YOUSEF MUNAYYER Published: November 23, 2012 MORE than 160 Palestinians and 5 Israelis are dead, and as the smoke clears over Gaza, the Israelis will not be more secure and Palestinians’ hopes for self-determination remain dashed. It is time for a significant re-evaluation of the American policies that have contributed to this morass. The…
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The Palestine vs Israel Solution
It may be politically suicidal sometimes to talk about the reality on ground when facing the infamous conflict in the holy lands. Almost everyone included, the Americans, the Europeans, and the Muslims have two conflicting opinions about this situation, a public and a private one. We all know what the public opinion is, a two…
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The Clash of Generations
Many friends and others interested to know more about the future approach me regularly to know what I think would happen in the future. I did indulge myself so much in the past 14 years in the science of politics but that doesn’t really make anyone able to predict the future without the proper tools. However, using…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 