THE MURDER of Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 has put Pakistan in the spotlight. Here is a nuclear power, located in an area rife with ethnic and national conflicts, bordering India, China, Afghanistan and Iran. While dictator-president Pervez Musharraf does…
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Never Never Land
AFTER HAMAS was elected, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) attempted to cooperate with it. This led Israel to claim there was no one to talk to. After Hamas took over Gaza, however, Abbas officially dismissed its government and set…
Imposing Democracy, Reaping Chaos
THE New Middle East was the title of a book by Shimon Peres, today Deputy Prime Minister to Ariel Sharon. And now we have the “democratic Middle East,” ballyhooed by none other than US President George W. Bush. Each of…
The Democracy Scam
ON her recent visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not pass Egypt by. At the American University in Cairo on June 20, 2005, she talked about America’s struggle for democracy in the region. She…
Throes of Disengagement
ON APRIL 14, 2004, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon sent a letter to US President George W. Bush announcing his decision to freeze the “Road Map” and undertake, instead, a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli public read the…