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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for August 2010

Forked Tongue: what the Likud and Hamas Have in Common ………..

Iranian Natural Gas: a Big “If”, Hot Gas and Congress…………..

Carly Fiorina’s Israel Pilgrimage: “Personal” my Eyes, Term Limits on Peace……..

Greed in Mecca, Destruction of Historic Mecca, Plunder of History………….

Tongue in Cheek? A Very Challenging Ethnic Learning Curve……….

Imam Vicar Tony (Yo) Blair Worried about Threats to Religion……….

Germany: Monetary Policy with an Anti-Semitic Tea Party Twist? Bundesbank Uber Alles.......

Palestine: Futile Talks in Washington……….

How Self-Made can a Saudi Prince be? How Stupid can Western Media be?............

Night Riders of Murfreesboro, Return of the Klan?………..

Allawi and the Neo-Ba’athists and the Old Ba’athists…………

Voodoo Economics: Germany Fears the American ‘Chinese’ Fate………

Testicule au Vin, Coq au Vin: Middle East Cuisine, Serbian Cuisine……..

Baghdad to Get a Summit Facelift: Until Death do them Part………

Fear of Flying over Iran: the Toll of Sanctions and Mismanagement………

Lost Cause: Western Leftists and Iraq………

Israeli Artists Boycotting West Bank Settlements…….

Saudis Ignore Own Detention Law, Democracy Activist Held over Three Years Without Charges………

The Extremist Rabbi, his Muslim Counterparts, the 'Angry' Palestinians…..

Lebanon and Libya: the Not-so-Mysterious Mystery of that Other al-Sadr………….

The Overworked Abattoirs of Umm al Qaiwain………

Oxymoronic for Profit: Glenn Beck U, Stephen Colbert U, Oral U, Arabia Deserta U?……….

Keeping Halliburton Safe………….

Burning the Quran, Burning Crosses, Jesus and Hustlers in White Sheets………….

Fidel Solves the Bin Laden Riddle……..

An Island of Sectarian Ghettos in my Gulf……………

Joe McCarthy is Alive and Well (also) in Tehran and the Middle East…………

How the West Was Duped: Helping Fundamentalism from Yemen to Afghanistan and Back…………..

The Plight of Israeli Women in another Middle East Theocracy………….

Iraqi Political Gobbledigook, American Mudslinging, the Tea Party and the “Hell No” Party………….

Bahrain Bans All Media Reports on Arrested Opposition….....

Lovesick Netanyahu Really Pining For Abbas……….

End of Alleged Reform in My Gulf? What Reform?..............

Iranians Continuing to Play with Their…… Missiles, Warning Sarkozy?…….

Rajavi Reported Dead: from Iranian Revolutionary to Cult Leader……

Middle East Doublespeak of George F Will, Pitfalls of Peace and Apartheid……….

Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Does She or Doesn’t She?...........

Egypt’s Ruling party May Mummify Mubarak then Re-select Him, or is it Re-select then Mummify Him……..

The MEMRI Kind of Arab Royal Media Elitist, He Ain’t No Oracle………………

The Dauphin of Egypt: Getting by with a Lot of Help from His Friends………….

Idle Ayatollah Censors Iranian Pets, a Prelude to War?………….

Iran and Polygamy, Salafis and Polygamy, Piety and a ‘Long in the Tooth Wife’………

The New Slavery: from Arabia without Love…………..

Money and Coming Out: Today Mehlman, Tomorrow the Talk Radio and Fox Warriors?.............

Iran Economy to Retrench, Facing Sanctions……….

A Political Boycott on the Gulf………….

An Issue of Parking for a Black Mosque in Kentucky…………..

Holy Jim Crow: An Israeli Salafi Racist Railroad for Kosher Men and Halal Women………

The Battle Between Iraq and Mexico for First Place………….

Dubai World Adjusts to a New World………..

Israeli Tree-Cutters and and Lebanese Tree-Huggers Clash……….

Bovine Terrorists Strike Northern Israel…………..

Sarkozy Threatens to Flex American Muscles in the Gulf………..

Simple-Minded Americans and Sexually Insecure Japanese………

Super Chutzpah! Israel's Shimon Perez is Against Nuclear Weapons………

Political Shock and Awe: Americans for Jihad………….

Bushehr in Beirut: Hezbollah Wants Lebanon to go Nuclear………….

The Fox News Saudi Connection: Demagogues, Liars, and Media Scoundrels…….

Jordan: Abused Unfair House Maidens………….

British Tornadoes Hit Yemen……………..

Iran to Arm the “Other” Lebanese Army?.................

Ahmadinejad Coming to America, what About Chavez, Qadhafi, and Rabbi Boteach?........

On Carla Bruni, Nicolas Sarlozy, Saddam Hussein, and Sakineh Ashtiani…….

Hitler and Kosher Couscous: it is the History, Stupid, not the DNA……..

Fatwa on Marital Snooping: Auntie Tom of Egypt and Female Circumcision………

Wieners of Lebanon: another Delusional Super Race of the Middle East……….

Contempt Breeding Familiarity? The Muslim Prince, the anti-Muslim Network, and the Teabagger Brothers……

A Marriage Fatwa by a Xenophobic Shaikh…………

Saudi Shaikh Issues Fatwa: Women Out of Work (and in Bed?)………..

Neighborly Sexual Exploitation of Iraqi Women………….

Dubai Violence: Crenshaw Boulevard on the Gulf, Story of AA, MA, EA, AK, BB, ZR………

Journalistic Groupies of the New American Brownshirts.........,,

Van Gogh in Egypt; Lousy Security, Sleeping Alarms, Broken Cameras, Oy Vey……..

Flying Shoes and Humus and Grilled Sheep Eggs: Who Said the Middle East is not Creative?...........

Silly Arab Games with Books and Sports…………

Iranian Obsession With the 300, Western Obsession with the 300, S-300…….

A German View of the Vanishing American Middle Class…………

Mosque Imam on the Road Again, Making Music with His Oligarch Friends…………..

Surprise Switch in Iraqi Politics, Allawi Bites the Hand That……………

Tony Blair Buys Himself a “Bestseller”……………..

Missiles and Warplanes of Peace, Talks of War.............

Iran’s Friendly Messenger of Death: Kim Il-Ahmadinehad?………

A Case of Detention: Jordanian BMOT?…..

Iran to Send Ahmadinejad into Space?...........

In Egypt: A Dictatorial Plutocratic Friend of the Poor………..

An American “Controversy”: Third World Madness and Fear in a First World Nation………

Human Rights Groups Comment on Bahrain Arrests……….

Waiting for War, A Sectarian Campaign of Disinformation on the Persian Gulf………..

What is Unacceptable to Israel and Iran…………..

An Eye for an Eye: Saudi Justice, American Justice…….

Herman’s Hermits of Arabia: Breastfeeding Saudi Shaikh Downgraded, no Milk Today……….

'Ground Zero' Mosque: the Wise Strippers vs. the Opportunistic Politicians………

Israel Arrests One Madman………..

New Zero Sum Game: Blackwater Founder Follows Halliburton to the Persian Gulf………

French Gypsies: Sarkozy’s Political Final Solution……….

Mossad Agents Turn to Scabs……………..

Iraq: Adel Abdul-Who?..........

BAE Systems Again, Where is Prince Waldo, Where is SFO………..

Oh happy People of the Middle East: a High Happiness, a Happy High………..

Why Split Afghanistan, Why not Split Afghanistan…………

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