Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for December 2011

Islamic Jihadists Conquering America, the Princes and Apple Pie and Motherhood.........

Neglected Arab Uprising: the Rumble in Qatif (and Nejd)..……………..

UAE Gets THAAD for Petro-Money, Shaikhs Get Commissions, about Those Mercenaries……..

Iran and the Arabs: Some Confusion about its Regional Image……….

Reform in Bahrain: Can Pigs Fly in Riyadh?...........

Eisenhower and America’s "Avatar" Wars for the 1%: Preparing for the Mother of All Muslim Wars………

The Princes and the Kims of Pyongyang: DPR of Korea, DPK of (Saudi) Arabia……..

Saudi Princes Love for Media Control Continues……..

Is it a Neocon New Neo-Colonialism in the Middle East?...............

What the Dead Leader and the Presidential Candidates and some Middle East Potentates Had in Common………

Arab Legends: Obama in Bush and Cheney’s Footsteps? Salafi Plots from the Old Testament and Babylon .........

Mohammed Bouazizi, Slayer of the Arab Fear, is Publicly Honored "in London"………..

A Tale of Two Cities: Nepotism in Tehran and Riyadh……….

Only in Saudi Arabia: Women Selling Lingerie is a Social Revolution? about Beach Volleyball, FWD Potentates…..……

GOP Observers in Syria: Cruise Missiles and Stink Bombs over Tehran…….

League of Arab Dictators and Absolute Monarchs in Syria, about the Somali Arabs and Racism……………

Breathtaking Hypocrisy to Outlast the Petroleum Fields, Salafi Euphemism……

Haute Couture: Ahmadinejad and Coco Chanel and Gingrich……….

Khamenei Aide to Iranians: Forget about Open and Fair Elections………..

Kosher Arab Women and Protests: Court Bans Egyptian Virginity Tests (for Females)………

Big Banana Bins of the UAE: Asinus Asinum Fricat.............

Moonlighting in Baghdad: Cops, Salafi Bombers, Two-Timing Vice Presidents……..

His Excellency Rapping in Bahrain: about Imported Pakistanis and Mirthless Jordanians……

The Holocaust: Schindler of Tehran and Paris, Ahmadinejad………

U.S. Court Charges Iran with 9/11 Attacks: al-Qaeda, Saudis, KSM, and Saddam Elated………

Happy Holidays to the Middle East and those Americans Eager to Invade it Again……

Ali Khamenei Losing some Allies in Iran…………..

American Chinese Drip Torture: Terror Bedfellows, al-Masri, al-Libi, al-Amriki, al-Israeli, and al-Capone........

Syrian Piece of Our Puzzle: Secular Ally of Theocratic Iran or Quasi-theocratic Ally of Theocratic Saudi Arabia?.....

UAE: Harsh Crackdown on Academics, about those Mercenaries………….

Bahrain Sports: all in the Family, Jordanian Humor…………

Old Video Distortion of History: Western Coups from Latin America to Iran.......

Mork from Ork and Iran: Nano-Mullahs to Nano-Americans, Nano Nano……..

Al-Qaeda in Syria: Oh Not so Funny Canada…………

A Salafi al-Qaeda Crescent: from the Gulf to Iraq and Syria and Lebanon (and Egypt?)……………

Turkey and France and America’s Founding Fathers: the Need for Two Bills of Rights…………

Ayad Allawi: back to the Princes………..

Of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fires of Cairo………..

The Strait of Hormuz in War………

#OWB: Occupy the Occupied West Bank? GOP Pandering.................

Iraq Developments: Political Divisions, Disgruntled Gulf Neighbors, Wily Iranians……

Libya: a Plethora of Qaddafistas Infiltrating New Regime…………

Media: Of Twitter and Self-Made Middle East Princes………

Orwellian Bahrain: Human Rights Ministry, Ministry of Apartheid………….

Fools at War: Netanyahu and Lieberman Opine on an Iranian-American War……………..

Holy Kims of North Korea: about the Three Magi and the Star of Bethlehem and Mount Paektu……

About Aggression in Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr and Johnny Depp for President..................

Changing the Subject: UNSC Condemns Israel, Israel Condemns UNSC and Europe and Iran, Susan Rice Condemns Iran and ……..

What Terrorism: Waffen-SS, USA?...........

Saudi Urge to Merge the GCC: pan-Tribal pan-Dynastic Union, a Mufti to the Rescue ………..

A People’s Democratic Salafi Kingdom in Northern Lebanon?..............

Saudi Leadership of GCC: Three Major Failures, Three Strikes but not Out, not yet……..

Kim Jong Al Saud of Arabia: HRH Abdulaziz Bin Fahd: Father’s Favorite, Mother’s Cutest, Yacht in Barcelona……

GOP: a New Nixon, but not as Smart, and no Chicago ‘68…………..

Funny US Anti-Terror Policy: Today the Taliban, Tomorrow Hezbollah and Hamas?..............

Funny GCC Confederation : a Salafi Fifth Column, Princes Playing Saddam........

Iranian Illusions and an Alleged American Spy………..

Iranian American Tit for Tat Continues………….

The Brain and the Ass: a Republican Fear that America will turn Atheist and Muslim Fundamentalist……

Western Liberation of Arabs from Iraq to Libya to Syria: Allenby back in Egypt?.............

Funny Saudi Diplomacy: What Doesn’t Happen in Yemen Never Stays in Yemen……..

Shaikh Abdulwahhab of Nejd, Bon Vivant Abdelwahab of Cairo, Shaikh of Qatar, Sectarian Princes…………..

Prisoners in Foreign Lands: Alireza Asgari and Tony Blair……

A Saudi Iranian Kiss? No Frenching Fundamentalists there.........

Lebanon and Iraq in Libya: NATO and the Warlords……….

Fools of Hamas: Making Netanyahu’s Job Easier, Somali Dollar………….

As the Last American Soldiers Leave, Iraqis are at it Again………

Salafi Cleric Compares a Woman’s Face to a Vagina: Sexy Eyes and Oral Wahhabi Outrage…………..

Rosa Parks of Jerusalem, Shikses of old Alabama and Free Afghanistan.........

A Syrian Mini-Civil War, or is it a Civil Mini-War……

Mel Brooks and Oliver Stone of Persia: a Taliban-Hezbollah-Colombian-Iranian-alQaeda-Mexican-Texan-African Network………

Arab Monarchies and Illusory Legitimacy: Oil and Opium, Mars or Uranus.........

Bahrain's protest movement was per capita one of the largest anywhere in the region

West Bank Churches on Fire: GOP to Expel Palestinians and Bomb Iran.......

An Epidemic of Rape: American Women, Congolese Women, Afpak Women………….

Bahrain: Prime Minister Praises Security Thugs, Baltagiyya, and Imported Mercenaries…………..

Those Underrated Powerful Asses of the GCC States………

McCain Refuses to Concede Iraq, Yosemite Sam of Panama not Kenya, San Juan Hill in Arabia…….

Imitating Us: Never-Ending American Martial Law, Go Tell it to the Nisei, Martin Niemöller.........

Sanctioning Central Bank of Iran: the China Dilemma, the Built-in Hypocrisy…………..

A Friedman-esque View of America Groveling under the Likud……………….

Iran: A Silver Lining in the Clouds of Western Sanctions, a Petroleum Blockade……

The Unique Humor of His Royal Majesty the King of Bahrain...........

American Dream to Nightmare? A New Republican Tea Party Blue Dog Corporatist Reality …………

Petroleum Markets, Kosher Salafi Simians, Watermelon Countries, and Katie Bar the Door…….

The Gulf: Drone Wars, Jaw Wars, Psych War...........

An Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Bill making the Sun Shine out of Netanyahu’s Anus?........

In Nazareth: a Fox News War on Christmas and Christians………….

United States and Israel: Funny Legal Ties that Bind………

Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: Coming Oil and Gas Wars and Regional Hegemony.......

Iran & the New American Political Zeitgeist, about Fuzzy Mao & Uncle Ho Chi Minh…...……..

What the Libyan Rebel Leader Thought………..

Tit for Tat between the United States and Hezbollah: a War of Espionage and Drugs and Money and Public Relations………….

Economics of Labor and Limb Atrophy in the GCC: a Racket, n'est-ce pas?.......

Newt Gingrich as an EMP Pulse Bomb, Iffy Fundamentalist in Iran.......………….

WTF in Bahrain: Flourishing Achievements.....

New Finicky al-Qaeda Unhappy with U.S. Infrastructure………

Heathen Scientists Find God, Salafi Heebie-jeebies Traumatized……………

History: Egypt Fatwa Adapts to the Zeitgeist, of Omar and Ali and the Two American Rices...........

Mercenaries: Blackwater to Xe to ACADEMI to the Potentates of UAE………….

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