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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for July 2011

Gulf King also Hailed by Current GCC Secretary and Former Retainer…….

Gulf King Hails Self and Supporters…………

American Weimar? a Season of Right Wing Political Zombies………

European Right-Wing Epiphany: Hook up with Likud, Angry Man with a Small Mustache……..

Song of Bahrain: “the Yanks are Coming?”, No “the Pakis are Coming”………

Poets of Bahrain,……..

Gulf GCC: on Jordanian Accession, Roman Dinarius, Israeli Shekel, and Kosher Currency……

The USA Sharia Threat: Land of the Free and Home of the Crazies?...........

After Norway: some Iranian Chutzpah, European Islamophobia, and the New Zionists ……….

A World Upside Down: Iran Dealing with al-Qaeda Offshoot, US Dealing with Taliban, the Israeli Angle……………..

Bahrain King Receives Letter from Crown Prince that he is a Great Dad………

Royals and Sissies of Arabia, Unite!........

Bahrain King Receives Letter from Unsavory Uncle Saying he is a Great Guy………

Middle East Blame Game: Iran on Syria, Saudis on Egypt and Bahrain, Clerics on God and Islam…….

Is Tahrir Going Islamist? Is Egypt going Quasi-Theocratic?............

Iran: the Mullahs and the African Pirates and MEK…………

History of Culture on my Gulf: Tagore Alive in my Elementary School……..

The Coming Lebanese-Israeli Oil and Gas War?...........

Smart Heathen Women and Gay Diplomats of Bahrain………

Egypt: the People Wanted to Topple the Regime, the People Want to Topple the Marshal………

Islamic Intolerance in Indonesia and Malaysia, Salafi Nazism……..

UAE: Lawyers Pledge for Sweet Rulers, Blast Activists, Ignore Mercenaries………

America’s New Gold Rush: from Iraq to Afghanistan to the Gulf and Beyond……..

Al-Qaeda in Iraq: Refinancing or Issuing Islamic Paper………….

NATO and the New Arab Mandate: East Libya and West Libya and Gertrude Bell………..

On Iraqi SOFA, the Sadrists, Republican Hawks (& Hillary Clinton), and Fiscal Policy………

Nuclear Economics: Iran Invites the Saudi Mufti to Visit its Installations………..

Shaikh of al-Azhar meets Iranian Mullahs and Hezbollah, Mr. Mubarak and Ghazwat el-Khanazeer ……..

An Arab Spring of Yesterday’s Men , a New Jewish Spring, an American Tea Party Madness……….

Shi’a Crescent or a Gas Crescent? from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon and Europe........

Oh Hezbollah: about the Balance of Terror and Israel and Syria…………

Gulf GCC: Moroccan Couscous Controversy, Jordanian Humor Controversy……..

Would They Block God and Jesus and Mohammed and Omar and Ali? You Betcha.............

Fighting Women of Abu Dhabi, Fighting Men of Colombia and Australia and Ciudad Juarez………

Ayatollah Khamenei Explores the Seven Seas…………

Gulf Joke of the Day: Bahrain to Investigate Torture Claim by Ayat al-Qormezi…….

Princes Tighten the Screws: Saudi Arabia Finally Responds to the Obama Middle East Speech…….

Abu Dhabi: Kangaroo Courts of the UAE………….

The New Arab Mandate, the New Colonialism: France and Libya………

Alarabiya TV: Josef Goebbels of Wahhabism on Ahmadinejad’s Jewish Roots…………

WTF BBC: Muslim Terrorism, a European Practical Joke, a Norwegian Fraternity Hazing……..

Nuclear Mullahs and Acts of Terrorism: Abbasi-Davani, Dariush Rezaii, Mossad, CIA, MI6, et al……..

Murdoch, Prince al-Waleed, Citigroup, Falafel King, and other Winners…………

Saudi “La Pasionaria”? “Smiling” Princess Blasts her Kingdom to Kingdom Come…………..

Saudi Legs and Bellies: Roots of Instability, the Coming Age of Warlord Princes……

Sword of Saddam, Golden Sword of Manama……………..

Hala Aldosari: a Passionate Arab Mother, a Passionless Saudi Prince……..

Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution, Tantawi Cha-Cha-Cha……………..

New Plot against the Saudi Government: of Academics and the Usual Suspects……….

Saudi Arabia and the Saleh Card in Yemen: Déjà vu all Over Again?...........

On Bahrain, Democratic Values, Obama, Clinton, and Horse Apples……..

Israel Now More Like an Arab State than Ever Before………

Torturers R Us? Bahrain Regime now Torments Athletes…………

Germany in the Gulf: Leopards of Contention……

A Peninsula of Fear: Formerly Free Noble People, Thousands of Princes..........……

My Gulf: Iranian War Games, Saudi War Games, Everybody’s Happy War Games………

Are the Saudis Buying off the new “Revolutionary” Egyptian Regime?..........

Surprise: Jewish Salafis can be ‘Almost’ as Obnoxious as Ours.……

Claim Jumpers: Saudi Princes Face some Competition in Mecca……

Jihadist in Drag: Cross-Dressing Salafis of Iraq and Afpak………

Cole on Fourth of July, Arab Revolts, and the Charade in Bahrain………

UAE: Hooker Sentenced for one Word of Trespassing………..

An Iranian Explanation of ‘the’ Nuclear Program………

Fundamentalist Chutzpah: A Salafi Constitution for Egypt?.............

Islamic Kosher: How Pious Animals make Halal Slaughter Easier………….

What Arab Despots Call their Rebellious Peoples………

Saudi Arabia and Southeast Asia: the Housemaid Wars………

A Tale of Two Theocracies: Of Ballistic Missile Tests and Women Drivers………….

Egyptian Salafi Fatwa Allowing Eating the Flesh of Demons and Jinn and Possessed Animals…………

The Moroccan Referendum and the Gulf GCC: Marriage Police and Lingerie Police……

On SOFA and Iraqi Militias, Giving Foreign Occupation a Bad Name………

Egypt and Tunisia: Half-Finished Revolutions in Serious Danger………….

Saudi Prince Turki Urging the West to War on Iran, Salafi Physics and Hot Gas………

A Suspect Inquiry: Political & Diplomatic Masturbation on the Gulf……..

How Pakistani ISI Fully Cooperates with U.S. Intelligence………

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