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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for July 2010

An American Intelligence Empire: How Many to Change a Light Bulb?...............

HRW on the UAE Deporting Shi’as and Gazans ……………

Fear and Loathing on the Nile, Obama’s Secret Idiots…………….

Al-Maliki Closer to a Second Term? Allawi’s Dilemma...........

Cairo: Suicide and the Single Educated Girl…………..

Israel’s Own Violent Jewish Fundamentalists………….

Troublesome Salafi Neighbors in Jaffa: there Goes the Neighborhood………

Iran Claims New Local Submarines, but Pines for Russian Missiles………

Pakistan Couple to be Stoned: Man Escapes, Woman Caught, Insecure “Inadequate” Judges…….

The Absolute Kingdom of Windsor Arabia?.................

The Persian Diaspora of the Bin Ladens………..

The Ballad of Good Elizabeth, Little Tim, and the Big Banks……………

Ahmadinejad Resorts to Name-Calling: Idiots, Cowboys, and Scamps………

A Foolish Gulf Poem in Praise of Saddam Hussein, my Anger Management……………

Hamas Bans Women from Public Smoking, No News about Mary Jane……..

Recent Iraqi News: Political Negotiations, Iranian Sheep Rustlers, Terrorists Nabbed…..

Shared Values with Israel: Jewish Allegiance, Islamic Allegiance, Christian Allegiance…………….

Banging the Drums of War: Is AIPAC Making the “Arab” Case for an Attack on Iran?..............

On Iranian Petroleum, the UAE Dirham, and a Totally Offshore Economy………

Princess and the Pauper, Princess and the Gigolo and Sex in the City (of London)………

A Struggle for the Republican Party of Iran………….

Why the Middle East Needs a Murfreesboro like Tennessee, Make that a Hundred……….

Americans' Reactions to Iranian Scientist Saga…………

How the West Has Won Arabia, Against Democracy…………

Shadow Governments: Lebanese-Israeli Game of Musical Telecoms………..

Senior Saudi Cleric Kalbani's Family Values, Frustrated Polygamous Students, and other Weighty Islamic Issues……..

Tricky Bibi? Netanyahu Off (but on) Microphone and Camera…………

Suicide Terror Bombers in Drag Hit Iran, a Martyred Hermaphrodite?……….

The Amiri Puzzle: Not your Father’s CIA, Coming Out of the Closet, yet Again……………

Shared Values: Israeli-American-Texan, Israeli-Taliban, their Mahdi………..

Arab Oligarchs Waiting for War: an American White Knight, an Israeli White Knight...............

Bins of the Gulf, an Island that is a Family Affair, Al-Obama………….

Amiri and Colin- Powell Type Nuclear Info, Why Out Him Now? A Le Carre Moment........

New Saudi Fossils: Saadanius Hijazensis………

An Iranian War: a Simple Issue of Effectiveness and Consequences………..

Some Oligarchs Want a New Gulf War, and They want it Soon………

France and Lebanon: What is a Little Terrorism between Old Friends……….

Israeli Settlements Expand, Palestinian Reservations Shrink into “Townships”………..

The New Swinging Taliban go Simian, Peanuts and Bananas for the N Y Post………….

A Press Prize is Awarded to a Chief Censor on the Gulf………

Bin Laden Goes Bollywood, Can’t get Back into Pakistan………………

Workers of Dubai and Alaska and Las Vegas, a Temporary Country?……………

Mel Gibson to Play Bin Laden?.................

A Kafkaesque Iraqi Political Process: a Saga in a Novella…………….

Bastille Day: Silly Little French President, Terrified Idle French Legislators …………..

Hitchens on West Bank Land Grab, the Israeli Christian Lobby, and their Racketeering Reverends………

An Israeli Minister Goes Arab and (Dare I Say it?) European-Style Retro “Nationalist”…………..

From Blair to Brown in Libya: British New Labor Party Discovers the Joys of Money and Corruption…………

Fundamentalist Rabbis to Shape Future of Judaism?………

Nuclear Fog, Nuclear Deals, Nuclear Suspicions………..

Arrogance and Stupidity: Israelis Suing Aljazeera, Lebanese not Suing Cluster Bomb Killers……..

Trading Places: Iranian Scientist “Escapes” to Pakistani Embassy, Good News for American Hikers?………….

Russo-Iranian Tensions: from the Security Council to Undelivered Missiles to Central Asian Republics…….

An Emergency AIPAC Wing of the Right Wing, Bolshevik Fly-Over States of America…………

World Cup: Vuvuzela vs. Macarena, Whining Dutch and Chinese Actors, Deserving Spaniards and Uruguayans……..

Modern Hole in the Wall Bandits………….

Iranian Commander Freud: Israel is Psychologically Unbalanced………..

Saudi Cinema: Some Young Passion, but no Theatre…………..

What they Smoke at al-Azhar, a Fatwa to Save, a Fatwa to Kill…………

The Exiled Converted Foster’s-Guzzling Arabian Camels of Australia……..

King Skips Bastille Day Celebrations, about the Burq’a Paranoia…..

Lieberman (NOT Joe) Suggests Land Redistribution…………

Frenchman to the Rescue of the Niqab and Burq’a………

Iran Chooses to wage a War She Cannot Win………..

Jordanian Society for Pain, Painful society of………

To UNIFIL or not to UNIFIL……………..

From Tel Avis to Riyadh: a Convergence of Warmongers and Cheerleaders and Financiers……….

Simple Al-Qaeda Matrimonial Practices: Utilizing Idle Salafi Male Facilities, Sin and the Rolling Stones…….

Israel and Hezbollah: how Tension with my Enemy is my Friend……….…….

Who said RAK is Boring? I Probably Did............

Heart of Tikrit and Samarra and Points West: a Graffiti Imam……

A Most Ridiculous Fatwa 11625: UAE Fatwa Bans Loud Vuvuzelas…………

Mystery Hit and Run at Beirut International………

Iraq Politics: a Shi’a “Mut’a” Marriage, a Wahhabi ‘Mesayar” Marriage, a Western Hook Up…….

Iraq: Return of the Lost Marshes……….

Alleged Russian Spies, Alleged Vienna Exchange, Alleged Harry Lime and George Smiley……………

The New Très Chic Gaza Bandwagon: to the Shores of Tripoli……..

Why UAE Women need to Dumb Down, Odd Affirmative Action on the Gulf……..

An Israeli Problem with Independent Western Women? Britannia Ruled...........

Iraq-Iran Petroleum Trade: Whose Sanctions are they Anyway………..

Ahmadinejad Opines on the Holocaust, Claims Love for Lieberman (both of them)…….

A Beauty of Watermelon in Iraqi Politics….....

Pious Saudi Parrots Chanting Pater Noster, Barukh atah Adonai ………..

Tehran’s Green Protests, Oakland’s Black Protests………….

Fun to Shoot at Arabs, or Fun to Just Shoot? What about the Humor.............

What Disgruntled Egyptians Can Do…….

An Iranian Admission: Saddam, Iran, and another Western Media Frenzied War Momentum………….

Iran Denies Western Reports of Stoning Sentence…….

A World Cup World, a Le Bron Nation………

A Pious Las Vegas without Half the Fun…………..

Holocaust Victims: Israel’s Dirty Little Secret………..

Another Israel for Kristoff: a New Era of Jewish Ayatollahs…..………

Media Princes: Prince Al-Waleed and Fox News Take on Aljazeera, Brother Plans a Fundie Network, Etc…….

Saudi Machiavelli, Saudi Metternich: Iranian War for Palestinian Peace…………

Iranian Merchants Win One on Taxes, no Chai Party………….

Stockholm Syndrome on the Persian Gulf, Iraq Bloodbath Continues…….

Blood Diamonds of France: is Sarkozy Corrupt? Do Bears do it in the Forest?...............

Israeli News Network Fires Octavia Nasr over Fadlallah Tweet, or was it Hezbollah………….

The Mean Streets of Mean Villages of South Lebanon……………

A Senate Schmuck Calling for Another War, Israel as Helen of Troy………..

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