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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for December 2010

Arab Year of More and Less: more Weapons, more Irrelevance, more Frustration, less Influence…...

Edging Toward Acceptable Open Racism in Israel: 2010 (vi)………….

Year of a Political Near-Coup in Iraq: 2010 (v)………..

Year of Shifting Winds of the Mother of Mideast Wars: 2010 (iv)……….

A Year of Inching Toward an Impossible Dictatorship in Iran: 2010 (iii)……….

A Year of Stuxnet Attack on Iran: 2010 (ii)……………

2010 (I): A Year of Wikileaks…………

A Never-Ending Saudi and Gulf Labor and Population Dilemma……….

Is Sabotage Delaying the Iranian Nuclear Program? A Drunk Saudi Driver and an Iranian Tree............

Terrorist Attacks may Escalate in Iraq in 2011: a Prediction not a Fatwa………..

Shaikh-ing On My Gulf: We Are All Sycophants, We Are All Un-Spartacus………

Iraq’s Imported ‘Neighborly’ Terrorists add Christians to their List…….

Mubarak’s Egyptian Château d'If: the Case of Mohammed El-Sharkawi………..

Tackling the Middle East Monopoly of Power Selectively………

Possibly the Best Arabic Language Newspaper in the World, for Now………..

Iran’s Khamenei Revisits Post-Election Turmoil of 2009……..

Best Economic Policies that Money Can Buy, Best Congress that Money can Buy……..

Canucks and the Shaikhs: When an Oligarchy Acts like a Spoiled Brat………….

New York Times on Iraqi Sunnis and Israeli Arabs……………

Why the West, Israel, and Some Arabs are Licking their Chops over Lebanon…………

Rabbis’ Wives Reject Arab Men as Mates, no Sleeping with the “Enemy”………….

In Tunisia: the Fire Next Time, the Fire Now…………..

Ahmadinejad’s Tea Party, an Arab World without Charisma …..

Al-Maliki Rules Out Iraqi Alliances with USA, Iran, or the Arabs…………

Weapons and Watermelon on My Gulf: Like Fat Rich Kids in a Candy Store……..

Atomic Scam: Did Conmen Offer Egypt a Bomb? Was Egypt’s UN Ambassador Fibbing? Probably Both……..

Iranian General Asgari in Israel: Claims of Suicide, Claims of Murder, no Wikileaks…….

Mystery of Jesus: was he Jewish, Lebanese, or from Abu Dhabi?..............

Alarabiya and Silly Small People on the Persian-American Gulf………

Saudis on Lebanon and STL: a House Divided?.............

Logic of Fundamentalist Tango: Men of Mauretania, Women of Mauretania, et al……….

Wisdom of Madmen: Avigdor Lieberman and the Lousy Truth about Palestine…………

Iran News Agency Claims Third Rigi Brother to be Handed Over………..

Iranians to Launch Satellites in 2011, First Mullah-naut into Space in 2019……….

After Egypt’s Rigged Election: Kicking a Dead Horse…….

Mother of all Paranoia Films? An Iranian 9/11 Conspiracy Film………

Are Iran’s Opposition Leaders Barred from Foreign Travel? A Middle East Specialty........

After Spreading the Bull for Years, Netanyahu Receives Some………

An Egyptian Berlin Wall: of Incompetence and Israeli Allies and the Stasi……….

Iranian Court Intrigue: Rahim-Mashaei, Rahim Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel?………….

Saudi Shaikh al-Shammari, Oligarchy Media, Exciting Numbed Brains, and the Tea Party………..

Lebanese Lord Gaga Vacations in Riyadh, Does the Umrah……..

A Saudi Gunslinger in Drag: AQAP or just a Bonnie in Drag?………….

Aljazeera on Staggering Sexual Abuse in U.S. Military, Blaming the Victims……….

Buying History on my Gulf: Relocating the Magi from Ancient Persia to Abu Dhabi?........

A Troubled Kangaroo Court in Bahrain, of Lawyers and Appointed Toadies………

How Bold "Le Monde" Trumped Pandering "Time" Magazine………..

Iranian Extraterrestrial Captured in Afghanistan, About Iraq………….

Saudi Schools Investigated for Girl Sports, Taliban Cheerleaders……..

Swiss Cheese Sanctions and Smoking Mullahs: from Wrigley’s to Gas Pipelines……….

Nazareth Suburb Denied a Christmas Tree for Hometown Boy…….

Egypt’s Pigs Strike Back, Porcine War Resumes, the Pennsylvania Dutch……….

Killing Julian Assange: Lawless Republicans, Terrified Democrats, no Chinese or Iranians……..

A Race against Time: Netanyahu Dissembling and in Denial……..

Iranian MEK, the Theocrats, the Republican Right, and Beezelbub……

American Sanctions: a Doubtful Reluctant Dubai, a Rich and Eager 'Father of Doe'…..

More on Bob Dylan in Saudi Arabia: Banned Protests, Anomalous Marxists………

What Stinks at the UN Should Stay at the UN………….

Media Paranoia: Today Facebook, Tomorrow the Telephone, Next the Church and Mosque and Synagogue?.........

The Neo-Nazi New Friends of the Neo-Likud, Whatishisname and Neo-Politics ………

No Laughter Curve: Indian Population Economics, Cheaper Onions, Less Making Out, the Listerine Effect….…….

A Court of Confusion, a Confused Court: Press Evidence, Hezbollah Evidence, Suspicious Evidence………

Iran Energy Policy: Caught Between Alborz Mountains and a Hard Place…….

Sarkozy Shifts Extreme Right: Will France dump Beaujolais for a Tea Party Know-Nothingness?…….

Iran Conservatives Seeking More Isolation: the British Issue………

Cleaning Up an Ugly Legacy of Saddam: Better Too Late than Never………

Morning Peter? Congressman King to Hold Muslim McCarthy Subversion Hearings………

Another Little Middle East Battle in Seattle……….

Emir of Qatar Visits Tehran, Iranian Navy Visits CENTCOM in Qatar……….

Lebanon, Politics, and the STL Tribunal: the Tourists’ Verdict……..

Iran Under Siege: Iranians Feel Pinch as Subsidies are Slashed……..

Rudyard Kipling of Arabia: a Christmas Wish List for Israel…………

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Explains Lebanon STL Tribunal……….

Kangaroo Season: Iranian Court Sentences Film-maker Panahi & Others to Prison……….

Our Nests of Spies: Across the Middle East and into the Sober Halls of Congress……..

The Lost Battles of Algiers………

Muqtada al-Sadr: How the West Never Really Won Iraq………

Firing Mottaki: Probably a Smart Move but Done Offensively by a Small Man...........

Arab Men and Jewish Women and Being on Top: Israeli Men and that old Deep South Boer Insecurity…….

Changing Times and Bob Dylan in Saudi Arabia……….

Egyptians Invade Israel, no Coyotes Needed……….

Dr. Frankenstein of Kosovo and Israel and other Places……

How Arabs Targeted Spielberg and Estee Lauder, my Chariots of Fire………

Questionable Anti-Semites: Thomas and Stone Lead, Kissinger Gets Deferment, Ahmadinejad Upgraded…….

The Arab League: We Are All Robert Mugabe………

What is said in Tehran Stays in Tehran, Ahmadinejad’s Cheese Whopper……

UAE: the Most Obscene Christmas Tree in the World……….

The Polite American Admiral and the Disingenuous Potentates……….

Holland Decides not to Start a War on Iran, Lieberman and the Congress………

Innocent Aussie Abroad……

Amelia Earhart and Me (or I) on my Gulf………….

Those Seditious Seductive Back-Stabbing Eyes of Hael………..

Nasrallah, the Frustrated Richelieu of Lebanon……..

Frustrated Racists: Congressional Republicans to Probe Muslim and Israeli Spies on Capitol Hill……..

A Christmas Song: Just Like Olden Days, Happy Goldman Days…….

Israeli Tango in Lebanon: Dismantling Spy Networks and Swiss Cheese………

The Mystery of Iranian Jundullah…………

Bahrain King Hints at Ending Political Naturalization, the Uncharismatic Uncle…..

House of the Not So Brave: Knesset Passes HR 1734 on Palestinian State………

Iraqis Grapple with the Creation of a Political Fig Leaf……….

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