There are two groups calling for a peaceful resolution in Syria: Those who champion freedom and human rights and fully understand that a peaceful end is the shortest distance to achieve both and those who seek to install another autocracy led by extremist Sunnis and can only achieve it by stopping Assad from killing.
Exclusivity [...]
Abject poverty, the architect of Arab societies, is the result of a diabolical design created to suppress any thoughts of freedom in favor of a physiological pursuit of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs.
The argument tyrants clear their throats with (Imported from the Soviet political system) rests on the notion that if an individual spends [...]
Continue Reading →During last Sunday’s 60-Minutes interview of the ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, he suggested the use of Arab Forces to quell the violence in Syria. His words echoed widely in the Arab world and the west.
But if one looks closely into the legality of this bold statement in the ink of the [...]
Continue Reading →The Libyan Revolution officially started on February 15, 2011 and the Arab League on March 12, 2011 unanimously endorsed a UN-backed No-Fly Zone to be enforced by NATO.
It took exactly 25 days between the first day of Revolution in Libya and the Arab League action to save the Libyan people.
The Syrian [...]
Continue Reading →Think back to December of 2010 when the Tunisian Rebellion against its despotic ruler managed to spark a youthful Arab street in five different countries. Those were the good days because all signs were indicative of an organic social Rebellion based on self-empowerment to attain economic parity and freedom.
Forward to today’s political landscape across [...]
Continue Reading →Qatar, because of its size and immense wealth, has adopted a foreign policy based on the theme “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time”
What Qatar has forgotten is the rest, which says “..but you cannot fool all the people, all the time”.
Qatar [...]
Continue Reading →It first started with an agreement to work together. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Syrian National Council (SNC) that is.
But when the FSA understood the real purpose of the SNC and the Muslim Brotherhood elements in control of SNC’s destiny, which is to share power with Assad under a plan conceived by [...]
Continue Reading →If a Muslim Brotherhood ideologue comes across a thirsty Muslim in the desert and asks him if he believes in peace with Israel, what do you think the MB ideologue will do if the Muslim says I believe in peace? Ignore him, offer him water, or shop off his head?
Same scenario but the MB [...]
Continue Reading →Behind the veneer of support the Russians are adamant about in regard to the Assad regime lies a cold reality that present Syria serves well the Russian interests in the region.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise to anyone the Russian position vis-à-vis Assad. But the realities are that Russia’s pursuit of its interests juxtaposed [...]
Continue Reading →The importance of the FSA statement calling for a military intervention in Syria by the west and separating itself from the Syrian National Council seems to have slipped off the radar intentionally by western media.
Neither AP nor Reuters wrote about the matter, especially considering that this is the first time the FSA calls [...]
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