Category: Interesting
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Le catastrophe! A hated leader. Violent protests. Wealth creators Fleeing abroad. After a year of socialism, France’s meltdown is a stark warning to anyone who wants Red Ed as PM
Published by Daily Mail Here By DANIEL HANNAN Never in modern times has a French government been so unpopular. Even in May 1968, when strikes and student protests paralysed the country and forced President de Gaulle to flee to a military base in Germany, the regime enjoyed higher approval ratings than does beleaguered President Francois Hollande…
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Goodbye to All That by Thomas Friedman
Original Article Posted Here On April 13, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It was very bad news, because Salam Fayyad was the “Arab Spring” before there was an Arab Spring. That is, he was what the Arab Spring…
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Another Fiscal Flop by @nytdavidbrooks
Original Article Here Over the course of the 20th century, America built its welfare state. It was, by and large, a great achievement, expanding opportunity and security for millions. Unfortunately, as the population aged and health care costs surged, it became unaffordable. Public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product was around 38…
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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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It’s Not Just About Us by .@tomfriedman
Original Article Here Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech on Monday that could be boiled down to one argument: everything wrong with the Middle East today can be traced to a lack of leadership by President Obama. If this speech is any indication of the quality of Romney’s thinking on foreign policy, then we…
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It’s Mitt’s World by @tomfriedman
Article originally posted here Mitt Romney has been criticized for not discussing foreign policy. Give him a break. He probably figures he’s already said all that he needs to say during the primaries: He has a big stick, and he is going to use it on Day 1. Or as he put it: “If I’m…
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Service to Israel Tugs at Identity of Arab Citizens by .@ReemMakhoul
Original Article Here NAZARETH, Israel — Three young Palestinian women sat on the floor at a summer camp this week surrounded by Legos and 3-year-olds. As the toddlers played, the women taught them the color of each block, repeating the words in Arabic, azrak for blue or akhdar for green. Reem Haddad, an Arab in Israel’s national…
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Between reform and revolution: Sheikh Qassim, the Bahraini Shi’a, and Iran by .@Alfoneh of .@AEI
Original Article Here The political stability of the small island state of Bahrain—home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet—matters to the United States. And Sheikh Qassim, who simultaneously leads the Bahraini Shi’a majority’s just struggle for a more democratic society and acts as an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran, matters to the future…
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Two Worlds Cracking Up by .@NYTimesFriedman
Original Article Published Here Istanbul For many years, strategists have debated whether Turkey would be a “bridge” or a “gully” between predominantly Christian Europe and the Arab/Muslim Middle East. If Turkey were admitted to the European Union, it would be a bridge binding these two worlds. If it were kept out of the E.U., it…
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Secretary Clinton Remarks on #Bahrain
BAHRAIN Clinton urges the reconciliation process to “go forward” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered the keynote address Monday on opening day of the inaugural Women in Public Service Institute at Wellesley College. During the question-and-answer session following her remarks, Clinton was asked by a guest to assess the situation in Bahrain…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 