Middle East Focus: On My Gulf; Asinus Asinum Fricat……..

Arabia Deserta

On My Gulf; Asinus Asinum Fricat……..

Walking on water

“Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, offered UAE's full solidarity with the Kingdom of Bahrain. His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain received on Wednesday Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, who paid a brief visit to Manama to convey best wishes of UAE President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the Bahraini leader for good heath and more progress and prosperity to the brotherly people of Bahrain. Sheikh Khalifa also prayed The Almighty to safeguard Bahrain as a haven of security, peace and stability. Sheikh Mohammed also passed to King Hamad assurances of Sheikh Khalifa of UAE’s full solidarity with sisterly Kingdom of Bahrain and its support for efforts Bahrain is making to confront recent events which aimed to undermine its security and stability and national unity…….The Bahraini monarch asked Sheikh Mohammed to convey his best wishes for good health and happiness to Sheikh Khalifa in order to pursue his constructive role in the development of the UAE. He also wished more progress and welfare to the people of the UAE…….”

Are you still awake? Read it again, keep doing it until you fall asleep, which could be any second from the start. I only excerpted about one fourth of the piece. I actually had fun reading it.
That is what the Romans probably mean by “Asinus asinum fricat.”
Cheers
mhg

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