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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for February 2010

A Divine Scientific Explosion: Is It Just Nuclear?.................

Greening of Tehran…………

Hezbollah, Hariri, and Ben Gurion………….

His Master’s Voice, His Highness’s Voice……..

A Prince in a Pickle, British Government in a Jam ……….

Winning Friends and Influencing Iraqis………….

An Israeli German Litmus Test………..

Is the U.S. Blocking Shalit Deal?..........

A New Dawn in Iraq?.............

Good News: a Torture Victim Released, Cheneys Pissed…………

What if Khamenei was Right, and He Probably Is……….

The Dubai Net Widens: Mossad, Dahlan, Fatah, Hamas, Daffy Duck………….

More on Iran Warheads……….

Taliban: a Charlie Wilson Partner Opines……………

OIL as Acronym, Smart Sanctions, Stupid Sanctions, Ordinary People ……

Flogging and Healthcare: Common Muslim and Christian Hypocrisy …….

An Egyptian Farce: The Dictator and the Scientist……………

First the Underpants Bomb, now the Underpants Cocaine……….

All the Shaikh’s Men, in Yemen……………

Al-Qaeda Finances, AIG Finances: Hey Big Spender………….

A Shaikh Exceeds Polygamy Quota, Gets Flogged………

Courting Russia, Money and Doubtful Charms………....

Breaking News: Egypt to Lift Emergency Rule, Deal to Reverse Global Warming………….

Love is in the Air, Royalist Pride in Extreme Israeli Prejudice…….

Lieberman (not Joe) Admits to Dubai Killing………………

A Mysterious Death, Plush London Hotel, a Royal Suspect, Seeking Miss Marple…….

Sarkozy and Haiti Damage, French Greed and History………

France: Ghosts of Genocides Past………..

HRW Got it Wrong, Tame Palace Experts Say…………

Salafis and Belly Dancing in Big Egypt, Getting Physical Culturally………..

Hans Blix on Iran, Israel, Enrichment, and all That……….

Iraq Election Campaign: General Odierno Throws his Hat in the Ring…………

Live by the Sword, Die in Dubai: Hamas and Mossad ………..

North Korea: Valentine as Halloween…………

A Turkish-American Fistfight on the Persian Gulf…………..

A Pasdaran Economic Model? An Islamic Economic Model? ……………..

A Smug Persian Gulf Editorial on Iraq, I the Devil’s Advocate............

The Mullahs, the Pushy Lady, Los Tres Amigos……………

The Yemen Technicals, Playing Techno in Saada………….

Al-Marzouq and his Two Problems………………

Clever Qataris, Hosting US Central Command and Iranian Navy…………….

One-Way Bridges of Arabia………..

The West in Denial: Hezbollah and the Democratic Party, Back to Square One, or Beyond………….

Wearing the Pants in the Middle East.........

The Wisdom of Yogi Berra on Iran…………..

Polling in a Police State, Pollock’s Middle East Poll not All Bollocks ……….

An Embarrassing Pakistani Peter the Great, in Arabic………..

Clinton Warns of Iranian IRG Dictatorship, His Majesty Jefferson…………

Nuclear Confusion: So What is the Iran Nuclear Problem?.........

Lebanon and Israel: a Battle of Roses and Chocolate Kisses……

A Macabre Un-American Debate: Cheney vs. Biden, Torturers vs. Abolitionists, What Would Goldwater Do?………..

GCC Gulf Currency Union: My System for a Timetable……….

Something Rotten in RAK………..

Hillary in Burq’a, Other Saudi Issues……………

A Blonde Valentine with a Hump……………..

A Kingdom of Men Grapples with Lingerie………..

Iraq Baathists Discover the Joys of Democracy and Absolute Monarchy………….

Danny Ayalon: May I Cleanse You, Ethnically Speaking? Their New BFFF…………

A Pious Man with a Big Heart, a Big Family, a Special Country Club……..

How Humor Thrives under Democracy, Of an American Education and Poles and Jordanians……….

What About Those Extra Wives? Royal Polyandry Frowned Upon..............

The Op-Ed that is Shaking the Arabs…………

Posturing for Economic Integration……….

Al-Qaeda Women Going with a Bang? Advice for TSA……….

A Saudi Valentine: Roses are Red but Royals are Blue, Shoving Roses at the Religious Police……..

Christian Extremists vs. Jewish Moderates, Did Jesus Convert?……………..

McCain Running Scared, Wants Obama on the Beat…….

From Guantanamo to Amsterdam, a GOP “Harold & Kumar”……….

White House Gone Bipolar on Iran……………

Iran Protesters Blocked, Will Fight Another Day………..

Airport Book Burners, Tea Party TSA.............

Corruption and Sex in Ramallah, all on Israeli TV………….

Of Saudi Sentences, Men Boasting on TV, Calling Nancy Grace, Tweeting from Jail…………..

On Sarah, Cheat Sheets, and a King's Live Webcam Show.………

Turkey and the EU: a Second Reason Why Not (Yet)………

What A Virginia Fatwa and ACLU Agee On…………….

Charlie Wilson’s War: Good Intentions, Some Doubts………

A Hot Winter in Tehran…………

Jordanians to Expel Shi’as? My New Search for Intelligence (and Humor)………

Iranians Seem Calm Over Smart Sanctions, but Are They?.........

Addled Egyptian Minister Goes Soft, Denies Thuggery, Defends Thugs……………

A Denial of Torture, Same Lame Camel for Sale, No Carfax Report……..

Snow Joins Republicans and Democrats in Piling on Obama………..

Let’s Blockade India, a Taliban in Delhi…………..

A Salafi Tide: From the Norwegian Woods to Tea Party Hootnannies………..

Arabian Cases: a Bearded Bride, Leaders on Qat, a Dancing American Journalist, and Jerusalem……………

Raising McCain, from the Extreme Right………

No More Sit-ins at Cal?………

Coyotes, so Far From the Border…………

A Bizarre Saudi Test: Aspiring to Lead, Failing to Teach…………..

Price of Malaria, Price of Dictatorship……………

On the Nuclear Issue, is There Really an Opposition inside Iran?..........

Goodluck Gets Lucky in Nigeria…………

Dancing in the Rain in Paris……..

Eastern Hookups: the Postman May Ring Twice, Untrue Love Only once…………….

Haiti as Dante’s Eldorado: there is Gold in Them Thar Piles…………

Blair-for-Sale Remains Cheeky, Promotes a New War in My Gulf…………

A Survey Gets the Princes all Excited………….

West Bank Tea Baggers, an International Effort at Democracy……………

Avatar of Persia, Arabia, and Arizona……….

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