Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for December 2009

A Shroud of Jerusalem, Antiquity Healthcare, What Would Jesus Do……..

GCC: A Summit Not Reached......

Cypriot Corpse Joins Maltese Falcon, No Greek Wahhabis, No Bogie.......

Nauru Power Play, Georgia Out of Her Mind………..

Cultural Divide: Taxing Bankers in Europe, Taxing Students in America……..

An Economic Lesson from the Persian-American Gulf?...........

Doing a Pinochet on Israel's Livni………..

Congress Wages Iran Charm Offensive, Third Base Elusive……….

Cryptic Iranian Statement by a Cryptic General…….

Rebels Charge US Jets Bombing in Yemen…..

The Young Radicals, Manjoo, and the Shaikhs.........

A New Jordanian Cabinet, that Elusive Humor, Playing Hookie as a Sport in Jordan……….

The Writing on the Wall in Southern Arabia………..

Intellectual Freedom from the Nile to the Gulf: No Profiles in Courage ……..

Gaza Smugglers and Egyptian Security, Familiarity and Contempt………….

Yemen Genocide Moves South……

Darker Prospects for Captive US Hikers.........

Expats Misty-Eyed Over Dubai, ‘Their’ Dubai…….

The Bloody Empire: An Early British Education……….

Revenge of the Liebermans .......

More Innocents Abroad, Darth Vader’s Twin………….

JFK’s SOBs Were in Boardrooms, Obama’s SOBs are Mostly in Congress.......

The Drugs that Saved the Banks………...

A British War Crimes Arrest Warrant for Israeli Leader?…….

Iran in Final Phase of Nuclear Bomb? The ISIS’ Odd List of Nations….......

Are We All Dubai? Is CNBC Outfoxing the Fox?.........

Human Trafficking: Welcome to the United American States of Arabia............

The Stern and Virile Martial Values of Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney, W Bush, et al……………..

The Paul A Samuelson Generations.........

The Photos Incident: Was Iran Opposition Set Up?..............

Al-Qaeda Goes Madison Avenue? A Kinder Gentler Hairy Face?…….

Lord Blair Lauds Iraq War, Counts His Blessings, Not Counting the Dead…………

GCC Summit: Ain’t Gonna Happen………

Global-haven: New Biggest Polluter against an Older Polluter.......

Al-Manar TV, Egyptian Bulldozers, My Lying Eyes, US Congress………….

Is the Party Over for Bankers? Do Bears do It in the Desert?............

Scimitar and Crucifix, Sorcery and Witchcraft Emboldened by HRW…………..

It Happens in Chino…………..

Palestine Mosque Burners, ‘All’ Fingers Point at Settlers……….

Iran’s Civil Rights Movement, POTUS as Big Brother……..

Xe I A: New Spook Name?.......

Religious Passions, Corporate Passions, Judeo-Christian Compassion ……….

National Security Bouncers, Blacklisting the Blackwaters……………

Taking Out Street Vendors, New York style…….

Egypt Denies Gaza Wall, but Something is Being Built…….

Teabaggers Planning Mass Suicides? Jonestown on the Potomac? Is Stupidity Fatal?........

Ruling the Waves, U S Congress Seeks to Repress Arab Media....……..

Obscure Pundits on Swiss Minaret Ban, the Freudian Angle………....

Houthis Repulsed? Bombers against Carbines and Daggers..........

Fire Sale in NYC, World of Dubai World Unravels…….

Future of Iraq and Iran Ties, What Sistani Wants, What the Saudis Prefer, the Moscow-Beijing Example.........

Jeddah Disaster Relief, a Katrina Aftermath, Foolish Pride of an Oligarchy..……..

O Tannenbaum, O Cluster Bombs..........

A Happy Arabian Return, a Memory of Danny Kaye……..

At Guantanamo: Justice Delayed but not Denied, ‘Obese’ Man Released……………..

Bahrain Women Are 'Special Needs', Prime Minister May Lose "Election"...........

J’accuse in Iraq: General Singles Out Syria and Saudi Arabia………..

Iranian Human Wrongs……………..

Egypt Penetrated, Culprit Disputed, “Intellectuals” Opine…………

Irate Shaikh, Uptight Swiss, We and the Proverbial Mouse’s………….

An Egyptian Iron Curtain, Arab Love of Walls, Obama’s Chance to be Reagan …………..

Swiss Minaret Vote: Their Fears, Our Hypocrisy, Our Despots.........

Nuclear Intrigue in Hijaz, Regulating Official Defections from Iran……….

American Financial Institutions: Same Old Faces, Same New Entitlements…………

Gunboat Nuclear Diplomacy, Tail and Dog Diplomacy, to the Shores of Lebanon…………

GCC Gunboats to Vanquish Pirates, Somalis Go Wall Street, Securitization of Revenues from Piracy………….

Bin Laden in Las Vegas.........

Middle East Human Rights and Wrongs: Dreams and Nightmares………

Dubai Crash Fallout, Islamic Banking Bubble, Empty Islands and Cirque du Soleil….……..

Baghdad Bombings, Seeking Renewable Energizer Virgins………….

Not the Iraq We Knew: a Common Middle East Tale of Water and Oil……….

All Prizes in the Family: One Bin Awarding another Bin’s Prize to a Third Bin.........

The Russians Too Want to Occupy Yemen……….

Fundamentalist Film Festival: the Gaza “Golden Tunnel” Award, the “Tunnel of Arab Shame” Award……….

Yemen Civil War, Jordanian Humor, My Futile Search……………

Improving the Middle East, Sending the Top Bureaucrats to Europe……..

A Tale of Two Dictatorships: a Dictatorship of One Man and one Family, a Dictatorship of Institutions……..

Iranian Day of Infamy? Student Protests, the Mullah’s View, Nixon’s Role………..

A Saddam Channel, a Mr. Gerbil, Strange Bedfellows……..

Tehran Student Protests, Paranoid Mullahs, Innocent Brits, Fears of Ajax II……

Trails of Death: Children Targeted in Baghdad, Again………

Global Thinkers, Tinkerers, Celebrities, and Their Gadgets……..

Eugene Rogan’s “The Arabs”…..

We Are in the Guinness! The Book not the Ale……..

The American Hezbollah Dilemma, Ignoring the Pashtun in Lebanon…………

Arabian 1984, Royal Speak, Bureaucrat Speak……..

Clan Rule in the Middle East, Emasculation of a Nation………

British “New” Labor Party Revealed: Americanization of Tony Blair, War Profiteer……….

Iran Student Day: Mullahs Stifle Media, Can’t Shut Up Rafsanjani………

Reaching for the Moon, Shi’a Proselytizing, Wahhabi Proselytizing…………

The Muntathar Road Show, the Muntathar Road Shoe………….

Congress Seeks to Disarm Hezbollah, Unimpressed Hezbollah Thumbs Nose………..

A Bahrain Population Miracle and Immaculate Conception………….

A Scientist and the Nile Fascists, Mother of all Smear Campaigns………….

Did Angry Perugia Get Its Bint Laden?………….

In Praise of a King, Media Basura..........

Neda’s Family Blame Iran Government………….

Moroccan and Jordanian Mercenaries Intervene in Yemen?………….

Robber Barons of Arabia, Land Grabs and Selective Development on the Gulf………

Is Saudi Media Covering Up the Jeddah Disaster?..........

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