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The Middle East: Oil and Turmoil |
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
There is no accepted definition of the region we call the Middle East, history has tended to shift what is meant by the Middle East around to suit its own convenience, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan have sometimes been included sometimes not. Likewise Sudan and Libya, traditionally those countries and the Levant region of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine belonged not to the Middle East but the Near East, a construction that also included neighboring bits of Europe like Greek and the Balkans, elsewhere the Near East and the Middle East overlapped and could be confusing.
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The Current Violence in Iraq: Getting Worse |
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Monday, 11 September 2006 |
When I first started the adventure of The Hanoudi Letter blog, I have made it very clear on many occasions that I been extremely worried that I might not be able to write something which is worth the time and a effort of those to whom it was directed to. An intelligent average individual and an American in particular, for these reason I have been and from the start asking the visitors to my blog to help me improve its substance and its quality by their rational criticism and intelligent corrections. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly evident that my requests have fallen on deaf ears. Because during the almost two years of existence of this blog I have received only a handful of comments, the world's citizenry and especially the Americans are becoming totally hypnotized and brainwashed by the lies and deceptions of the international media who are constantly bombarding their viewers, readers and listeners with a non-stopping barrage of falsehoods and dis-information. This a very sad state of affairs, because in this environment of cheap propaganda and sensationalism those who are writing from first hand experience directly from the field those who are living the hourly threats to their lives and existence under very severe deprivations and lack of the basic essentials like we are in Iraq now are becoming irrelevant and neglected.
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The Violence in Iraq: The Views of a Young American |
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
I have always hoped that my pieces on this blog would generate a good deal of objective comments and constructive criticism. But it is becoming increasingly evident that the greatest majority of my website's visitors have not bothered to do that! During the last 20 months of this blog’s existence I have received only a small number of comments and responses. On Monday April 17, 2006, I updated the blog with a piece on violence, the history and psychology of the phenomenon with a special emphasis on the violence which is sweeping Iraq at the present time concentrating on the anatomy, the methods and the objectives of the various groups involved. In that piece I confessed that the subject was a very complicated and I asked for serious and honest appraisal of my views, my request was answered by a young American who sent me few weeks later a very honest, thoughtful and an extremely fair response. A response which was so thrilling I asked the young man to use in updating my blog, which he very kindly accepted, the following is the letter almost verbatim except for some very generous praise which I don’t feel I deserve.
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The Hanoudi Letter: My Diary |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
I have always been greatly fascinated by personal diaries whether of the great or the humble, a journal to which one can entrust his inner thoughts, his/her experiences , the ups and downs were one is assured of privacy away from jaundiced eyes and unfair critics. During my years in the service of the government which extended for 33 years, I never had a chance to write a diary. My days were long and exhausting which included clinical work, teaching and occasional shots at administration, all of which left time for a luxury like a diary. At the time of Saddam’s adventure in Kuwait I have already been in retirement when I started working on a book on the dictator and his regime and started a diary at that time we were led to believe by the senior Bush that after kicking Saddam out of Kuwait the alliance which was led by the Americans will move on to Baghdad and finish with Saddam’s tyranny once and for all. But we were actually denied that opportunity because when the American led forces were only 200 km South of Baghdad, the ex-president called a halt to the advance and offered Saddam a cease fire which gave Saddam another 13 years on the top which were bloody and murderous and a lot of Iraqis suffered even worse fates than those during the previous years. One of the victims of those terrible years was my diary.
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