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Iraq: Life Under the Occupation |
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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
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I am afraid that what I am talking about today or at least a fraction of it would be construed by some of our blog's visitors as an overstatement and unbelievable. This is acceptable, for the very simple reason is that a lot of what is happening in this country at present is stemming from the detrimental interferences in its affairs by invisible and very often not very invisible players who are interested in their greedy secret agendas only. What is happening to this land and its people is not of a great concern to them.
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The Arab Israeli Conflict: The Six-Day War |
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Sunday, 05 June 2005 |
In 1967, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt was at the zenith of his power and popularity, he was the unchallenged leader of the Arab world, the hero of pan Arabism, one of the most important African leaders and a very important voice in the non-aligned movement. President Nasser has implemented very ambitious social and economic reforms in Egypt. His foreign policy was mostly pragmatic and sensible except for the occasional outbursts against the west, but whith the total hostile and uncompromising vis-a-vis with Israel, which came to regard him as the number one enemy. During the early hours of June 5, 1967, Israel launched a highly coordinated pre-emptive air and land attacks against Egypt and Jordan, which resulted in few hours time in incapacitating them and guaranteed the Israelis of complete superiority in the skies and allowed them to end the war in six days at the end of which they had acquired territories four times the size of historical Palestine.
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This World: Its Inhumanity and its Corrupt Politics |
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Sunday, 29 May 2005 |
This piece was intended in the beginning as a short and a personal letter to a very special friend and an extremely missed colleague who has left this country searching for a safer environment and a better future for his children, but when I finished it I found out that it has grown into a hefty and a very detailed dissertation which might be boring to my friend. I have also discovered that in my enthusiasm to write something intelligent I have neglected working on the weekly installment to the hanoudiletter, so I decided that I am going to push it into the web site and write to my friend as soon as the messy situation in this country and the still very serious condition of my son Nazar would permit.
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Oil: The Blood of the Western Civilization |
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Sunday, 22 May 2005 |
In 1990, after two world wars and a protracted cold war there was a hope that the world would enter into a new peaceful era. Oil became once again the center of a very serious international conflict, the world was jolted by the venture of another crazy 20th century dictator. Saddam Hussein has recently emerged from his eight years war with Iran bloodied and weakened but also not quite defeated, the war has ended with him in control of an incredibly powerful military machine but also bankrupt and with tens of billions of dollars in debt. To the South was the small Kuwait with its vast amounts of oil and its other immense resources, it was very tempting, an enormous prize.
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