Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for July 2010

On the Jews of Libya…………

Semites against Selective Anti-Semitism………

Defying the Laws of Gravity on Lebanon, Being Politically Neutral……..

Endearing but Deadly Politics of Egypt, Fat but Hungry Tourists…..

Hezbollah Pissed Off at CentCom’s General Mattis………..

Oh Cluster Bombs, Oh Humane Bombs……….

Down to Earth: the Human Face of Iran Sanctions………

Saint Rafiq Hariri? Israeli Channel Claims to “Identify” Assassination Suspect………….

Shaikhs of Israeli Salafis Issue Fatwa for Women to be Fully Covered………..

In Israel: Sharon’s Dream and a Peace of the Arab Dead, Of Gavno and Freedom……..

Iraqi War Reparations, a Political Alliance of Former Ba’arthists and Neo-Ba’athists……..

Is Tehran Really Blinking? Is it One more Move of the Persian Chess Game?.........

United States of Africa: is Qadhafi still Out of His Mind? Where is the Rabbi when you need Him............

Saudi Village Discovers it Had been Praying Toward Tel Aviv, or Was it Karbala………

A Shaikh on Interfaith Cohabitation in Pious Saudi Homes………

Ahmadinejad to Crash Arab Meeting in Beirut, Will King Kiss Nasrallah?……….

Khalid, Khalid, Polygamous Shaikh of Israel?.............

Palestinians Fear Mention of Ancient ”Israel” as they are Battered by Modern Israel……

Idiocy is One Florida Cult’s Solution to Religious "Terrorism"..……..

Ahmadinejad Joins Disappointed Germans, Slams Octopussy Decadence, about Other Leaders……

In Gaza: Mixed Public Bathing with Hamas and Arafat………….

Jerusalem Official Hitched to a Donkey, not Facing its Ass………

Nervous Boasts: Iranians Warn the West about Israeli War Demands, the Suez Parallel………

Persian Gulf Hit Parade: Zayed and the Dream, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sergeant Pepper’s…….…

Uprooting the Bedouins of Negev in a Quasi-Police State (with Cheerleaders)……….

An Important Exile Returns Home to Baghdad…………

King David: a History of Middle East Terrorism………….

Iraq Then and Iran Now, as Viewed by Distant Puppets on a String……….

Population Idiocy: Ahmadinejad Aims for a Tehran Looking like Bombay (Mumbai)………

Two ‘Meaningful’ Terror Bombings in Iraq………….

al-Zawahiri on the Champs-Élysées, Blasting Niqab Ban………

Ghosts of a War Past: Hans Blix on Iraq and Iran and Illegal Wars………

Ahmadinejad Sees US Plans for Two More Wars, at Least………….

Babes in the Toyland of Dubai……

A Serious South Pole Issue, a Serious Aussie Issue…………..

A Day in the Life of Ahmadinejad: the West “Ain’t Misbehavin’”………….

Africa’s King of Kings is Back, no Rabbi Botech in Uganda………………..

In the Golan: in Nazi-Occupied France it was Called 'Resistance'……….

The Rubik’s Cube of the Middle East: an Axis in the Balance………

Forget War: just Drop John Bolton Over Tehran………….

An AIPAC Love-Child Dreams of another War, Goodies Like Halloween in Late Summer……….

Did the Mossad Chief Really Kiss Noses and do the Umrah? Why I Doubt It...............

American Dogs of War Taking over Iraq War? about the Bard and Antony..............

Deliberate Confusion over Taliban Support? Aljazeera Schizophrenia at Alarabiya………

A Financial Dispute, Media Misrepresentation, Allegedly in Dearborn………..

Iranian Navy Boasts of Quantity over Quality: go Tell it to the Arabs…….

The Mouse that Rang: Killer Blackberries of the Persian Gulf……………

Mystery of the Strange Afghan Triangle: Taliban, Iran, Pakistan, and a Flower for Mullah Omar……..

Iraqi Jailbreak: did al-Qaeda Fool US Intelligence in Iraq Again?………

An Alleged Incident in Manama, On Film………

Inexorably Heading Toward an Inexorable Iran War? the Compelling Logic of Inexorableness (or is it Inexorability?) of War...........

The West to Postpone Nuclear Talks for Ramadan…………..

Late Iranian Response to American Sanctions, Upping Refinery Capacity………..

Sorcerers of Dubai.............

‘Ask an Emirati’, if You Can’t Find One Ask a Bengali or a Lebanese Model………

Iran Seeks to Reassure the West with Nuclear Fusion………..

Shin Bet Getting as Smart as Mossad: a Seven-Year Old Enemy………

Exile in Guantanamo or Home in Algeria: One Terror Suspect who Didn’t Make It…..

Clash of the Shaikhs: on the Burq’a, Iran’s Ahmadinejad, and Great Arabic Poetry……….

Terrorists in a Small Alaska Town: Who is Next? Palin? McConnell?............

Army Country: another Pakistani General Waiting in the Wings?……………

A Creeping State of Apartheid in the Holy Land?.............

America’s Republican War Chickens Playing War Hawks, Volunteering Soft Hides……………

Political 'Progress' in Iraq: Slowly I Turned, Inch by Inch……….

The Shahram Amiri Sequel, etc: Sleazy Media Disinformation on the Gulf (and in London?)……..

Killer Tweets of the Middle East: Ben Wedeman to Follow Octavia Nasr?........

Dubai: King of Little Britain Jailed for Fraud……………

Middle East Nuclear Powers, Middle East Nuclear Leasers…………..

Bury My Heart in Fallujah?..................

Royal Ozark Hook Up: When Cinderella “Meets” Cousin Cinderfella………..

Inventing History? Andrew Shapiro, Abe Lincoln, John Adams, Stalin's Collective Farms, and Israel………..

Revisiting the Shi’a Question: a Right-Wing Media Campaign in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf ……..

Ahamadinejad Promises a Global Awakening to end All Cruelty………..

A Price of Empire: English Muslims and Soccer Hooligans Shift Attention to Race……..

A Most Irresponsible Arab Dictator, but Who will Succeed Mugabe?……..

Hezbollah in the Crosshairs: Nasrallah Prepares for a New Showdown, Syria Dating the West……..

Gulf Population: Blame it on Fate, Blame it on Greed, Blame it on Rio……….

Israeli Military to get Warm and Fuzzy, Up to a Point……………

The Plot against Baptism, Surliness on the Jordan River……………

Good Deal? Israel Ambassador Trades Wife for Forty Pussy Cats and a Dog……………

Uncle Mubarak's Cabin: Slavery in Yemen……..

Bahrain Pushes the GCC for a Bahrain Stability Fund……………

Saudis Seeking to Make their Laws more Legal…………….

Catching Up with the Cousins: Israeli Oil Finds…….

Iranians to Invade Gaza through Egypt……………..

Much Ado about a Hook Up with a Goyim?.....................

Apartheid Anti-miscegenation Laws in Israel? Cross-Faith Hook-Ups.............

Downsizing Tehran: a Political Move or a Necessary Move……….

Electric Corruption on the Gulf, a Shameless Generational Thing…………

New al-Qaeda Campaign Slogan: “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom”............

Hezbollah on Israel, Shalev, and the First Challenge………..

The Life of Shahram Amiri: not So Fast, no Ursula Andress in Tehran……………

Controversial N Y Mosque: a Middle-Aged Northwest Valley Girl Eloquence…….

Ahmadinejad on Awakening and Bullying and Arrogance and Plunder and……………

Donkeys of Kurdistan, Asses of the Middle East, Unite!……………

Maids of Arabia: a Pretty Guy or an Ugly Woman………..

The Longest-Held Religious Prisoner in the World…………..

The Coming Half-Election in Bahrain, Make that a One Third-Election…….

A New Breed of American “Afghans”, Car Bombings in LA and Chicago?………….

In Pakistan: Blasphemous Piety……….

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