Tag Archives: Hosni Mubarak

from wadi to shining wadi

…Not only is the land for peace theory dangerous; it has little logic to recommend it, perhaps diplomatically, but not militarily. Giving away land for peace means exchanging strategic positions for a mere piece of paper. And it is legitimate … Continue reading

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heroes and villains

Wake up call. Nothing to do next weekend? …. Turn on the BBQ and try to reheat the old narrative. Recycle the fiery rhetoric of Nasser that the Jews are weak and pathetic, a quick massacre, divine violence with a … Continue reading

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game, set & match

Tremendous tennis player the Tsar was. The Russian bureaucracy was so heavy and saturated with a tradition of suppliers, basically parasites and leeches that Nicholas II once remarked it took the labor of ten men to change his tennis socks. … Continue reading

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i’ll scratch yur’ back, you scratch thine’

The peace dividend. Stability. Develop the real estate and construction industry to put the hordes of uneducated to work dragging material from point a to b. A rebuilding of the pyramids twenty-first century style underlied by the belief that a … Continue reading

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stooges: a captivating public

What? He captivated the Arab world? It was previously thought that walking on water and loaves of bread and nets full of fish were associated with Christian culture. But heck, with Mohammed Morsi, there is no telling where charisma can … Continue reading

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dreams of unity: vivid and inescapable

Somehow it never works. Arab co-operation, let alone unity, remains fitful and unreliable. The leaders of the Arab world seldom trust each other- and not surprisingly, for each country’s leadership shifts from figure to figure, ideology to ideology, incessantly down … Continue reading

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a maverick pharaoh

Where’s a maverick pharaoh when you need one? A monotheist and worshiper of the sun god Aten, Akhenaten created a religious revolution. Was he an idealist, a reformer, a visionary, or a megalomaniac? …If we fast forward, the so called … Continue reading

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damascus road diversion

We know that Bashar Assad has a professorial verbal style, has a tendency to become defensive and stubborn, and is dull, tedious and violent. And we know that regime change is in the air, if not exactly planned, then not … Continue reading

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Revolution in the air: tea party on the nile

Rioting and roaring mobs have part of humankind’s lot since time immemorial. Hate, blood-thirst, looting and pillaging have historically required minimal incitement to break a state of uneasy peace. For centuries mobs have risen and destroyed, from the Roman Empire, … Continue reading

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read them the riot act

The question is always when does civil disobedience transform itself into meaningful political change. When do mass demonstrations and the counterpart of the riot become a genuine revolution…. The senate house in flames; mobs roaring and rioting in the Forum, … Continue reading

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