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The impact of armed drones
during the decade-plus of this
intense global counterterrorism
campaign is hard to overestimate: Without operational commanders and visionary leaders,
terror groups decay into locally
focused threats, or disappear
altogether. Targeted strikes
against al Qaeda leaders and
commanders in the years immediately after 9/11 deprived the
group of the time and stability
required to plot a major strike.
But the London subway attacks
in July 2005 illustrated the
remaining potency of al Qaeda's core in the tribal areas of
Pakistan. The threat was fading
steadily.
So-called signature strikes
in which target selection is
based not on identification of
an individual but instead on
patterns of behavior or unique
characteristics that identify a
group accelerated this decline
for simple reasons. Targeting
leadership degrades a small
percentage of a diffuse terror
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Israeli and Palestinian Executives in
Mideast Peace Initiative
Israeli and Palestinian business leaders have
been quietly holding talks over the past year,
with the aim of pushing their respective governments to agree a two-state solution that
would see an independent Palestinian state
created.
The initiative, organised by the World
Economic Forum, is called Breaking the
Impasse. The business people involved,
about 300 in all, are drafting a joint appeal
to their leaders, to be presented at the WEF’s
regional meeting at the Dead Sea in Jordan,
according to two people close to the situation.
The group includes some of Israel’s bestknown chief executives and family owners
of listed and unlisted companies, alongside
leading Palestinian business people. Munib
al-Masri, the Nablus-based West Bank billionaire, has been heading the effort on the
Palestinian side.
The initiative was launched at last year’s
WEF Middle East and north Africa conference in Istanbul, and leading members of
the group have held several meetings in the
region and Europe since.
Israeli and Palestinian business people have
launched joint projects and exchanges on a
small scale before, but this would be perhaps the first time that they will have joined
forces in a broad-based effort to urge their
leaders to make peace.
“It has nothing to do with economic cooperation or joint projects,” one of the
people briefed on the talks said. “It has to do
with the status quo and the lack of progress
politically and the danger of the impasse
going on forever.”
He added: “It’s really out of concern – it’s
a group that is concerned and feels responsible.”
Participants in the talks have been sworn to
secrecy because of the sensitivities on both
sides. Many CEOs and family owners in Tel
Aviv’s business elite are left-leaning and
favour peace with the Palestinians, but most
have steered clear of taking public political
stances.
War Within Islam
Tunisia’s Islamists Belatedly Turn Against Radical Salafis
Tunisia’s transitional government, led by
a moderate Islamist party, has been under
fire for adopting a softly-softly approach
towards the puritanical Salafis.
Afraid of alienating segments of its grassroots that are sympathetic to Salafi ideology
or provoking a radicalisation of Salafi youth,
Nahda, the Islamist party, has insisted that
dialogue was the best option.
While the strategy might have worked with
some of the Salafis, a fragmented but growing group of adherents to a Saudi-style form
of Islam, it has not dealt with the more radical elements, which have intimidated and
attacked political opponents with impunity.
Fortunately, the government has seen the
errors of its ways and shifted to a more
forceful attitude. In recent weeks, it has
been pursuing members of Ansar al-Sharia,
a troublesome Salafi group, and prevented it
from holding its annual meeting, a move that
led to clashes with police.
Since the 2011 revolution, Tunisia has been
consumed by the struggle between liberals
and Nahda Islamists as the country moves
to finalise a new constitution and prepares
for elections. But as in other Arab states
in transition, dealing with the more radical Islamists poses the biggest challenge to
democratisation. Tunisia’s secularists see a
strict, austere Islam as alien to the country’s
open and moderate culture. But the Salafis
are becoming part of the social fabric. At a
time of economic hardship, their social welfare programmes have attracted young Tunisians for whom Nahda is neither Islamist
enough nor successful enough.
The trick for Nahda is to ensure that Salafis
who are peaceful are protected by the law,
but those who cross the line by trying to
impose their will on society or advocating
violence are pursued.
The belated recognition that a more deliberate strategy is needed has been partly driven
by the changing environment. Weapons
from Libya have found their way to Tunisia
and jihadi fighters have been holed up in a
region on the border with Algeria.
Moreover, the civil war in Syria has been
attracting recruits from north Africa, including hundreds of Tunisians, a “jihad” that has
been encouraged by Ansar al-Sharia. As the
experience of other Middle Eastern states
shows, hardened fighters eventually return
home and turn their guns against their own
governments. Better for Tunisia, and for
Nahda, to act now, before the country faces
a similar and inevitable blowback.
Syria Opposition Says Kidnapped
Bishops 'in Good Health'
Two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria
two months ago are "in good health," though
there is no news on their whereabouts, an
opposition official told reporters in Istanbul.
"Two or three days
ago, a doctor visited the two bishops.
They are in good
health," said Abdul
Ahad
Steipho,
member
of
the
main
opposition's
National Coalition and of its committee
established to follow up on the kidnappings.
Steipho added that his committee's attempts
to enter into direct telephone contact with
the kidnappers or the bishops have so far
failed.
"We are receiving a lot of contradictory
information on the identity of the kidnappers and their demands for ransom," he said.
Asked about any other leads the Coalition
had, the dissident said: "These kidnappings are sometimes carried out by criminal
gangs... other times by the regime (of President Bashar Assad) and sometimes by the
brigades of the (rebel) Free Syrian Army,
who use kidnappings as a way to exchange
prisoners."
"The two bishops are well known in Syria for
their humanitarian work, and their defense
of peaceful coexistence among religious
groups in Syrian society," said Steipho.
Their kidnapping
"sends a signal to
Christians in Syria
and other countries
in the Middle East...
For these reasons
we want to ensure
they are released,"
he added.
The two bishops, Yohanna Ibrahim and
Boulos Yaziji, were kidnapped at the end of
April, reportedly near the rebel-held town of
Kafr Dael, near Aleppo in northern Syria.
No group has claimed responsibility for
their kidnap, but sources close to the Greek
Orthodox Church and the Syrian authorities
have claimed the kidnappers were "Chechen
jihadists".
Christians constitute some five percent of
Syria's population, a patchwork of religious
and ethnic groups.
Rights groups say Christians are especially
vulnerable in the chaos that has engulfed
Syria ever since the outbreak of a conflict
in March 2011, which has so far killed some
90,000 people.
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ECONOMY
Egypt: Tourism Targets
Significant Recovery
Despite being badly shaken by the
2011 revolution and its aftermath,
Egypt’s tourism sector achieved a
significant recovery in 2012.
Initial figures suggest the country
welcomed around 11.5m foreign
tourists in 2012, up 17% on 2011,
generating income of $9.9bn, a 13%
increase over the previous year.
Hisham Zaazou, the minister of
tourism, told OBG that tourist spend
per night rose to around $75 in 2012
from $69 in 2011. However, visitor
numbers remained well below the
14.5m achieved in 2010, when pernight spend was $85. Nonetheless,
the fact that Egypt attracted nearly
10m tourists even in 2011 is testament to the resilience of the industry. The unrest did not affect most of
the country, particularly not its Red
Sea resorts.
Promotional efforts to restore the
country’s reputation include close
work with tour operators in major
markets, as well as their domestic
counterparts. Among the plans are
marketing through international
events and bringing in media representatives to demonstrate that the
country is safe.
While the short-term goal of restoring Egypt’s image as a safe place to
visit is a priority, the ministry is not
losing track of its longer-term strategy of bringing more visitors from
emerging markets, from which
an increasing number of tourists are travelling every year.
“The new markets we are thinking about fall into two camps:
the Far Eastern markets, such
as China, South-east Asia, India
and Malaysia; and in the Western
Hemisphere, Latin America,”
said Zaazou.
The minister said that although
the drop in value of Egypt’s currency was causing economic difficulties, it did make the country
cheaper for foreign visitors. The
pound has fallen – to around
LE6.79 to the dollar in midMarch, from just over LE5.5
before the revolution in early
2011 – though it has not plunged
as far as some had feared.
The tourism sector is a major
earner for Egypt, and thus its
health will be an important
factor in broader economic
recovery. According to the
World Tourism & Travel Council (WTTC), travel and tourism
directly contributed 6.7% of
GDP in 2011. The organisation
estimates the industry’s broader
impact on the economy – direct,
indirect and induced – is worth
more than twice that amount, at
around 14.8% of GDP.
10 Countries Most Likely to
Use Bribery in Business
Anti-Bribery TrainingTransparency
International recently released the
2011 Bribe Payers Index, which
ranked 28 of the world’s biggest
economies based on the likelihood that companies based in those
countries will use bribes when
conducting business abroad. The
survey scored each country on a
scale of zero to 10, with zero representing companies that "always"
engage in bribery and 10 representing companies that "never" offer
bribes. The results are based on the
views of more than 3,000 business
executives who answered questions about countries they had dealt
with over the past year. The executives were asked three questions:
(1) how often companies engaged
in bribery of low-level public officials; (2) how often companies
used improper contributions to
achieve influence with high-ranking politicians or political parties;
and (3) how often companies paid
or received bribes from private
firms. The average score from these
questions determined the ranking
of each country.
The following represent the top 10
countries most likely to use bribery
when conducting business abroad:
Country Score
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
7.3
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Russia
6.1
China
6.5
Mexico
7.0
Indonesia
7.1
United Arab Emirates
Argentina
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
India
Taiwan
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.5
7.5
In 2011, Russia strengthened its
stance against foreign bribery by
imposing monetary sanctions on
companies and individuals who
bribe foreign public officials. In
the same year, China made it a
crime for companies to bribe foreign officials. Individuals who
violate the law may be imprisoned for up to 10 years and companies may receive substantial
fines. Prior to the new law, China
only criminalized bribery of Chinese — and not foreign — officials.
Looking beyond the top-ten list,
the Netherlands and Switzerland
¾ each receiving a score of 8.8
¾ were seen by those surveyed
as the least likely to use bribery,
followed by Belgium, Germany
and Japan. The United States
received a respectable score of
8.1, placing it among the top ten
countries least likely to engage in
bribery.
We Comply’s Global Anti-Corruption and Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act (FCPA) training
courses explain anti-bribery
measures in a clear, understandable way, so that employees can
appropriately respond to key
real-world issues when conducting business abroad.
World Bank Injects $30 million into Lebanon
Poverty Program May 2013
BEIRUT: The World Bank has approved a $30 million
soft loan aimed at supporting a government initiative to
improve access to basic services in impoverished parts
of the country. “The Social Protection and Promotion
Project approved by the World Bank Board of Directors
will expand the coverage of Lebanon’s National Poverty Targeting Program from 93,900 to 160,700 people
over the next five years,” the World Bank said in a statement over the weekend.
The $30 million loan will mature in 30 years and will
have an 18-year grace period, according the World
Bank’s website.
The loan aims to strengthen
the capacity of the Social
Affairs Ministry and targets
200 ministry-run social
development centers, helping them to provide better
services, the statement said.
“This involves the establishment of a national Community Social Development
program that is transparent,
efficient and accountable to
its users,” the World Bank
added.
The program will provide grants to small communitybased projects, the statement said, adding that the initiative would ease poverty through boosting income and
work skills.
“Transparent, participatory and well-targeted social
safety nets in which communities have a voice and can
build opportunities for themselves are key to addressing poverty and regional disparities,” Ferid Belhaj,
World Bank Country director, was quoted as saying.
While Lebanon’s poverty rates are comparable to other
middle-income countries, disparities in living conditions remain acute, the World Bank statement added.
The lack of community development and social safety
net initiatives further complicates the situation, it said.
“The World Bank’s engagement on the community
development front in Lebanon started in 2000,”said
Haneen Sayed, World
Bank Human Development coordinator for Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
“The program will draw on
this decade-long engagement and lessons learned
from other community
development experiences
in Lebanon and around the
world,” Sayed added.
In a highly critical study
released last month, the World Bank said Lebanon
needs to generate around 20,000 additional jobs per
year over the next decade, transform its economy into
a productive model and overhaul social protection systems.
Report: Russia Delivers Supersonic Cruise
Missiles to Syria
A military source told the
Interfax news agency, “The
Yakhont supersonic anti-ship
cruise missiles have been
delivered to Syria," although
it was not made clear exactly
when the shipment was made.
A second Russian official
speaking to Interfax said
the missiles "will be able to
protect Syria's entire coast
against a possible attack
from the sea."
Russia signed a contract
reportedly worth at least
$300 million in 2007 to
supply Syria with cruise missiles, and Russia intended to
deliver a total of 72 of the
missiles to Syria.
It was not clear how many of the missiles have so far
been delivered by Russia to Syria.
The delivery was made amid the continuing violent
crackdown of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime
against the opposition, which according to a UN statement made, has claimed 4,000 lives since March this
year.
While international pressure against the Assad regime
has increased over the past month, Moscow has stood by
its ally, criticizing further sanctions slapped on Syria by
Western and Arab League states.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected calls
at the United Nations for an arms embargo against Syria
on Tuesday, saying that a similar move against Libya
had proved one-sided, helping rebels to topple Gadhafi
in August.
"We know how that worked in Libya when the arms
embargo only applied to the Libyan army. The opposition received weapons, and countries like France and
Qatar publicly spoke about it without shame," he told a
news conference.
Russia has close political and strategic relations with
Assad's government and has been one if its main arms
suppliers. Syria accounted for 7 percent of Russia's total
of $10 billion in arms deliveries abroad in 2010, according to the Russian defense think-tank CAST
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WORLD NEWS
US Seeks Permanent Occupation of
Afghanistan: Taliban
The Taliban militant group has said that the
United States seeks permanent occupation of
Afghanistan following its announcement to
keep nine military bases in the war-torn country.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said in
an e-mailed statement that the group would not
allow the US and its allies to have a permanent
presence in Afghanistan, despite an announcement by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that
Washington had demanded to keep nine military
bases across the country.
Karzai’s remarks showed that both
Kabul and Washington are trying to
deprive the Afghan nation of political independence, the spokesman
said, adding, “Afghans want an independent Afghanistan. We will never
make any deal on our independence.”
The Taliban spokesman said that the
presence of foreign troops had sustained the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the “longer the occupiers
are here, the longer it will take to find
peace.”
Karzai’s stated in his announcement
that Washington planned to keep
the nine bases in the main cities of
Afghanistan including the capital,
Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif in the north,
Jalalabad and Gardez near the eastern
border with Pakistan.
In 2011, Karzai confirmed for the first
time that the administration of US President
Barack Obama had demanded the establishment of a system of permanent US military
bases across Afghanistan.
The United States and its allies invaded
Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive
removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity remains across the country despite the
presence of thousands of foreign troops.
A Founder of the Revolution Is Barred
From Office, Shocking Iranians
TEHRAN — The
decision to bar the
presidential candidacy
of Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, a founding
father of the revolution and a former president, shocked Iranians, particularly those
among the 70 percent
of the population that
is under 35 and grew
up when he served in many leading positions.
“They say a revolution eats its children,” said
Mehdi, 27, a teacher. “But in the case of Rafsanjani, the revolution has eaten its father.”
The exclusion of Mr. Rafsanjani and another
thorn in the conservatives’ side, Esfandiar
Rahim Mashaei, could foreshadow even greater
repercussions, analysts and commentators said.
Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic republic has been characterized by constant and often
public competition among opposing power centers, a back-and-forth that gives ordinary citizens and private business owners the ability to
navigate among the groups.
Analysts have long speculated — and some
conservative clerics have confirmed — that the
ruling faction is determined to abolish the office
of president, which has served as a locus of
opposition under the populist incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and before him the reformist Mohammad Khatami, who pushed for more
personal freedoms. While by no means certain,
it is now a greater possibility.
At the very least, the anti-climactic election campaign seems likely to further reinforce the alienation of the urban classes, which make up a large
portion of the electorate and mostly gave up on
politics after the suppression of the 2009 uprising
following Mr. Ahmadinejad’s re-election, widely
dismissed as fraudulent. A major boycott of the
vote could further undercut the government’s
already diminished legitimacy.
The remaining candidates reflect the different
shades of gray that now make up Iran’s establishment, a coalition of conservative clerics and Revolutionary Guard commanders known as the traditionalists. Of the eight who were selected out of
the 700 hopefuls who signed up only one, Hassan
Rowhani, a former nuclear negotiator, has even
slightly different stances from the traditionalists.
Three of the qualified candidates have direct
links to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei: Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, a close
adviser and a relative by marriage; Ali Akbar
Velayati, his foreign policy adviser; and Iran’s top
nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili.
A fourth, Tehran’s mayor, Mohammad Bagher
Qalibaf, has long presented himself as a technocrat but lately boasted publicly of having beaten
protesting students as a police commander.
All of them say they are ready to fix the economy
by using a “revolutionary mind-set” and to solve
the nuclear dispute with the Western powers by
convincing them that
Iran’s position is just.
If history is borne out,
one of the candidates,
possibly Mr. Rowhani,
who is close to Mr. Rafsanjani, will try to tap
into votes that would
have gone to the two
disqualified candidates.
Indeed, Mr. Rowhani
has already said that if
elected he would start direct talks with the
United States, a popular theme among dissatisfied urban voters.
For many, though, the elections are shaping
up as a shoo-in for someone close to Ayatollah Khamenei.
It remains possible that one or both of the
disqualified candidates will be reinstated.
While they are not allowed to appeal,
Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the secretary of the
Guardian Council, a panel loyal to Ayatollah
Khamenei that made the decision, told state
news media that Ayatollah Khamenei could
reinstate them by decree. He did that in the
2005 elections with a reformist candidate,
Mostafa Moin, who came in fifth.
There was no immediate reaction from Mr.
Rafsanjani. One of his daughters, Faezeh
Hashemi, who was released from prison in
March after spending six months there for
“anti-regime propaganda,” did not return calls
seeking comment.
A pro-Rafsanjani columnist, Sadegh Zibakalam, predicted that the thousands of government managers, university professors and
others in the middle class who once supported
the former reformist president, Mohammad
Khatami, would rapidly fall in line behind Mr.
Rafsanjani. “The feeling of happiness, fervor
and enthusiasm that Rafsanjani’s registration
created will in the coming days gradually turn
into a serious determination throughout the
country to turn up at the ballot boxes on 14
June.”
For Mr. Rafsanjani himself, another shot at
the presidency at the age of 78 seems not
only physically, but politically, impossible.
Disqualification also seemed like an official
repudiation of his ideas of a liberal economy
and more freedoms.
The question remains of what President
Ahmadinejad will do now that his protégé,
Mr. Mashaei, has been sidelined. His legacy
has been tainted by his close relationship
with Mr. Mashaei, whom traditionalists call
a “deviant” for what they view as his liberal
ideas on Islam. Many in his faction have
charges of corruption being drawn against
them, and the Revolutionary Guards have
already hinted that they are ready to do whatever it takes, including the arrest of associates of Mr. Ahmadinejad, if they feel the
revolution is under threat
Ex-Dictator Convicted of Genocide in
Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY A Guatemalan
court convicted former dictator Efrain
Rios Montt on charges of genocide and
crimes against humanity , sentencing him
to 80 years in prison, the first such sentence ever handed down against a former
Latin American leader.
It was the state's first official acknowledgment that genocide occurred during the
bloody, 36-year civil war, something the
current president, retired Gen. Otto Perez
Molina, has denied.
"He knew about everything that was going
on and he did not stop it, despite having
the power to stop it from being carried
out," said Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios. "Rios Montt is guilty of genocide."
The 86-year-old former general laughed,
talked to his lawyers and listened to the
procedures through headphones. When
the guilty verdict was announced, the
crowded courtroom erupted in cheers.
Some women who lost relatives in the
massacres wept.
"Judge, Judge! Restore order!" Rios
Montt shouted as cameramen and photographers swarmed him after the verdict
was announced.
A three-judge tribunal issued the verdict
after the nearly two-month trial in which
dozens of victims testified about horrific
atrocities.
The proceedings suffered ups and downs
as the trial was suspended for 12 days
amid appeals and at times appeared
headed for annulment.
Survivors and relatives of victims have
sought for 30 years to bring punishment
for Rios Montt. For international observ-
ers and Guatemalans on both sides of the war,
the trial could be a turning point in a nation
still wrestling with the trauma of a conflict
that killed some 200,000 people.
Matthew Kennis, Amnesty International's
chair for Central America-Mexico Coordination Group, said "This is an incredibly important step forward for justice and accountability in Guatemala. Rios Montt being found
guilty ... is a significant step forward for justice and accountability."
Prosecutors said Rios Montt must have had
knowledge of the massacres of Mayan Indians when he ruled Guatemala from March
1982 to August 1983 at the height of the
country's 36-year civil war. The three-judge
panel essentially concluded that the massacres followed the same pattern, showing they
had been planned, something that would not
be possible without the approval of the military command, which Rios Montt headed
Wait, There Are Riots in Sweden?
You've read the stories about Sweden's
excellent health care system, innovative
gender-neutral day care centers, and generous parental leave policies. But here's a
story that those who would like to portray
Sweden as a socialist paradise are less
eager to tell: For three consecutive nights,
the residents of several largely immigrant
suburbs have rioted, torching cars, clashing with police, and setting buildings
ablaze.
The rioting -- the worst social unrest to
strike the country in many years -- was
sparked by the lethal police shooting of
a 69-year-old, knife-wielding man last
week in the suburb of Husby, the epicenter of the riots. Roaming gangs of angry
youths have since clashed with police and
Husby residents have complained of racist
treatment by police officers, who they say
have used epithets such as "monkey."
What's happening in Husby is clearly a symptom of Sweden's failed effort to integrate its
massive immigrant population. Housing segregation is rampant in the country, and Husby
is a case study in how immigrant populations
have come to dominate Stockholm's outer
suburbs. The graph below (from this paper on
housing segregation) illustrates the phenomenon. Depending on your political perspective,
native-born Swedes have either fled Husby or
been pushed out by immigrants:
Husby also suffers from rampant unemployment -- a problem that is particularly acute
for its youth. Nearly 30 percent of the city's
young people are neither employed nor
actively enrolled in school, a number that
mirrors a broader trend of immigrant underemployment relative to the native-born population.
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Qatar Pays Price for its Generous
Support to Muslim Brotherhood
Protesters in Tunisia and Libya burn Qatari flag, condemn ‘blatant
interference’ of Doha as part of ‘conspiratorial scheme for benefit
of Israel, Western powers.’
TUNIS, TRIPOLI – Angry
Tunisian and Libyan protesters burned the Qatari flag in
two simultaneous moves and
without prior coordination.
Furious about the persistent
interference of the Gulf state
in the Arab countries’ affairs,
the protesters condemned
Doha’s foreign policy and
accused its Emir of supporting religious parties to serve
his country’s agenda, as part
of a "conspiratorial scheme
for the benefit of Israel and
the international imperialist powers."
The Tunisian protesters in Gafsa burned the
Qatari flag on Thursday during a demonstration organized by various political forces and
civil society organizations to condemn the
"Zionist attack on Syria" and show solidarity
with the Syrian people.
The burning of the Qatari flag in Gafsa translates the resentment felt by the majority of
Tunisians against the "blatant Qatari interference” in Tunisia’s internal affairs.
The protesters said that their country was
renowned for its civilization and high position
on the world map compared to the small Gulf
Emirate, which claims the defence of freedom
and democracy, while repressing its people,
and silencing all dissident voices, even those
of poets (in reference to the case of the Qatar
'anti-regime' poet Ibn al-Dhib).
Observers say that the State of Qatar, which
claims that it has provided the peoples of
the Arab Spring with a media platform "Al
Jazeera" in a way that supported their demands
and contributed to the pressure put on ousted
regimes, has began to quickly lose popularity
among the general public in all those countries.
According to observers, people in the Arab
Spring countries have begun to realize that
Qatar’s media and financial support is not
above suspicion as the small Gulf Emirate
is pursuing an agenda that serves its interest
and those of Western allies while seeking to
become a “regional power.”
In tandem with what happened in Gafsa, now a
familiar scene in Tunisia, the Qatari flag and a
doll intended to represent Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, were burned by
demonstrators in Benghazi who accused the
Emir of interfering in Libya’s internal affairs.
An estimated 500 protestors gathered outside
the city’s Tibesti hotel late to vent their anger
against the Gulf state, their opposition to
militiamen who had been besieging the
Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice
in Tripoli, and their support for the government of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and the
General National Congress.
Much of the opposition was directed at
Qatar which protesters claimed was supporting Libyan Salafists and the Muslim
Brotherhood. Some protestors demanded
that Qataris be prevented from buying any
land in Libya.
A statement from the Qatar embassy in
Tripoli, which vigorously denied Doha’s
interference in Libya, failed to cut ice with
protestors in Tobruk, where a Qatari flag
was also burned.
Analysts believe that Qatar is trying to
take advantage from a scenario repeated in
both Tunisia and Egypt, where the Muslim
Brotherhood, which was an active participant in revolutions, seized power.
Few weeks ago, Egyptian protesters burned
the Qatari flag in front of Gulf state’s
embassy in Mustafa Mahmoud Square,
chanting "Down with the rule of the guide."
Protesters from different opposition parties
and revolution groups shouted slogans to
express their outrage about the Qatari government and the Zionist regime’s meddling
in Egypt's internal affairs calling the Emir
of Qatar an element of the US.
They objected to financial aids from Qatar
because of Sheikh Khalifa Al Thani's close
ties with the US and Israel which they
feared would have undesired consequences
for Egypt.
The protest was later joined by a few Sudanese who voiced their opposition to the
Qatari emir’s interference in Sudan's internal affairs
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FIFA Anti-Racism Campaign has Work Cut out for it in Middle East
World soccer body FIFA’s newly established
anti-racism committee has its work cut out for
it in the Middle East and North Africa where
ironically only Israel and Iran have taken some,
albeit too few, steps to counter discrimination
based on color, religion, ethnicity or sex.
In countering racism and discrimination in
the Middle East, FIFA faces not only racist
outbursts by fans, players and officials on the
pitch but often a structure and unwritten policies that are inherently discriminatory.
In the latest incident of racism, Iran’s soccer
federation banned Paykan FC coach Firouz
Karimi for eight games and fined him $3,000
for calling Dutch player of African descent
Sendley Sidney Bito a cannibal and a Negro
and refusing to shake his hand.
The sanctioning by the Iranian soccer federation is in stark contrast to it its turning a blind
eye to regular denunciations as donkeys of
players and supporters of Traktor Sazi FC,
the club based in Tabriz, the capital of Iranian
Azerbaijan, widely seen as a potent projection
of Azeri ethnic and national identity. “Wherever Tractor goes, fans of the opposing club
chant insulting slogans. They imitate the sound
of donkeys, because Azerbaijanis are historically derided as stupid and stubborn. I remember incidents going back to the time that I was
a teenager,” said a long-standing observer of
Iranian soccer. The Iranian federation’s neglect
is tied to the government’s crackdown on anything that reeks of separatism.
Similarly, a recent rejection of two Chechen
Muslim players because of their religion by
militant, racist supporters of Beitar Jerusalem,
the only club in Israel to refuse Palestinian
players, sparked outrage in Israel but little
effort to force the club to put an end to its
discriminatory hiring policies. The outrage
was rooted in the militants’ use of Third
Reich terminology by vowing to keep their
club pure and by the fact that it countered
a long-standing pillar of Israeli policy that
seeks to forge close ties with its neighbors’
neighbors in the absence of relations with a
majority of Arab states.
Similarly, Hany Ramzy, the coach of
Egypt’s Olympic soccer team who is credited with Egypt’s winning of the 1998
Africa Cup of Nations championship,
returned to Egypt from last year’s London
games a soccer hero and a model in a country and a region in which identity politics
rather national identity often governs the
beautiful game. A Coptic Christian and
one-time legendary national soccer team
captain of a squad whose former national
coach Hassan Shehata established Muslim
piety as a criterion for membership equal to
skill, Ramzy, symbolized what is possible
as well as the immense problems Middle
Eastern and North African nations have in
coming to grips with their ethnic and religious minorities.
Ramzy is one of the few if not the only
Coptic Egyptian national team player in
past decades. He is the exception that
proves the rule in a country in which the
Coptic Church has its own Copts-only
soccer teams. Ramzy is believed to owe his
success to a significant extent to the fact
that he earned prestige by being hired by
various European teams, including Neuchâtel Xamax, Werder Bremen and Kaiserslautern.
“In Egypt, there is a problem that many people
don't even consider. This problem relates to
not allowing the Copts to play in the national
teams of sports, especially soccer which is
the most popular game in Egypt. Marginalization of young Copts by the Football Association and the administrations of Egyptian
clubs resulted in having no Coptic players in
the core teams. Youth teams have very few
Copts and they are laid off as soon as they
reach certain age and never take the chance
to promote,” said Safwat Freeze Ghali, writing on the website of Copts United.
Charging that soccer discrimination against
Copts encourages discrimination by Muslims and anger and hate among Copts, who
account for some 10 per cent of all Egyptians,
Ghali spoke out of personal experience.
“I suffered from this problem with my son
who was born in 1995 and has a great talent
in soccer. Many people have said so after
they saw him playing. My son then started in
a small club, but never took a chance to play.
His coach treats him so badly and his colleagues make fun of his Christian name. His
coach told him: I won't let you touch the ball
(play in the team) and never ask me why! We
got fed up and I took him to a bigger club
and they liked him very much and promised
to recruit him but they never did. Then, I
moved him to another club where they liked
him too, but when the coach knew his name
(a Christian name), he said: We'll see, later!”
Ghali wrote.
Journalist Mustafa Abdelhalim in an analysis published by Common Ground suggested
that an interfaith soccer day on the eve of the
London Olympics could serve as an example for Egypt and for that matter the rest of
North Africa and the Middle East. “In June
2012 London’s Wembley Stadium was the
site of a ‘faith and football’ day that united
students from Muslim, Christian and Jewish
schools. This event was planned by the Three
Faiths Forum (3FF), a UK-based organization
dedicated to building relationships between
people of all faiths, and the UK Football
Association, which officially oversees the
sport in the country. Egyptians could replicate
this example by creating nationwide leagues
to promote intergroup and interfaith cooperation. Dincbag took the Turkish soccer association to court for allegedly outing him by
leaking that he had been exempted from military services on the grounds of homosexuality
and then dismissing him despite the fact that
Turkey has legally enshrined gay rights.
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Bassem Youssef Isn't Joking Around
The Egyptian Satirist Stands on the
Front lines of Egypt’s Culture Wars.
CAIRO, Egypt Past the door, Bassem
Youssef's office is a testament to the comedian's eclectic tastes. There is a life-sized cutout
of Angelina Jolie and a golden brown painting of Arabic calligraphy. There is a copy
of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Anthony
Shadid's House of Stone. There is a dartboard
and a plate inscribed with a design that celebrates Egypt's pharaonic heritage. There are
rubber duckies -- one dressed in a tuxedo,
one as a chef, and one as a devil -- scattered
throughout the room.
Youssef is not just funny -- he matters. His
arrest by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhoodaligned prosecutor general ballooned into
an international event, as he showed up at
the court wearing a massive version of the
graduation hat President Mohamed Morsy
wore in Pakistan, and tweeted from inside
the prosecutor-general's office that he had
been arrested solely so the police officers
and lawyers could take pictures with him.
His April 24 appearance on the fake news
set of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show was a
body blow to those in the United States who
argue the Brotherhood can be prodded in a
democratic direction. "They are insecure,"
Youssef mused to Stewart. "They are locked
up in their teenage years. They still have pimples and have to deal with their, I don't know,
bodily hair."
Youssef's satirical news program al-Bernameg ("The Program") has also become one
of the sole, unapologetically liberal rejoinders
to the Morsy government and Islamist political dominance of post-revolution Egypt. At
a moment when Egypt's opposition appears
hopelessly fractured, liberals, socialists, and
Nasserists alike can all agree on one thing:
They love Bassem.
As the episode closed, Youssef dropped the
comedic act and hit back -- hard. "They look
at us and don't see Christians and Muslims,
no. They see non-believers, hypocrites, enemies of the religion and God," he said, before
addressing his critics directly. "The equation
is very simple. Just like you don't consider us
Muslims, we don't consider you sheikhs or
scholars." The approving roar from the studio
audience was immense.
Youssef, who is a practicing Muslim, frames
his stance as a defense of freedom of opinion against religious dogmatism. "It's about
how you preserve religion and use it in spiritual leadership, instead of a tool of tyranny,"
he told FP. "That's our biggest problem. You
can't just say 'vote for someone' or 'follow this
person because that's the way of God.' When
you do that, it doesn't really matter if you're a
Muslim or Buddhist -- it's tyranny."
Youssef has a regular column for the Egyptian daily al-Shorouk, where he writes seriously about the problems facing Egypt -- and
gleefully mocks his Islamist critics. Shortly
after the April 24 Daily Show episode aired,
the Brotherhood attempted to tar Youssef for
his association with a Jewish comedian: Its
official Twitter feed approvingly passed along
an al-Jazeera clip featuring former CNN host
Rick Sanchez, who referred to Stewart as
"bigoted" and claimed that Jews control the
media.
Youssef didn't back down. "These people talk
about the tolerance of Islam with other religions, but at the same time they do not distinguish between Judaism as a religion and
Zionism as a political stance," he wrote in alShorouk.
Youssef does more than defend his friends -he stands up for a liberal lifestyle in a country
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Lebanon’s Oldest Church Discovered
& Will Be Destroyed Soon?
Downtown Beirut: the gift that keeps
on giving when it comes to archeology.
After a blogger were assaulted for taking
pictures at the District S site, it turned
out a nearby site, where the Roman gate
and road were discovered, was more
important than originally perceived.
What will replace the Roman gate and
road as well as the potential Church? A
five star hotel and mall. Because that’s
precisely what Downtown Beirut is
so desperately lacking. After all, why
would any tourist in their right mind
want to see anything in Beirut that
doesn’t revolve around the Zaitunay
Bays and the Solidere edition of Downtown Beirut?
From the Roman hippodrome, the Phoenician port,Amin Maalouf’s house and
the constant destruction of Achrafieh to
the current site at hand. Of course, all of
the aforementioned entities are not things
that can be milked electorally for them to
be anything substantial for Layoun and his
friends. Roman hippodrome sure doesn’t
sound catchy enough.
We, as Lebanese, have apparently no right
to at least have the parts of our history that
are discovered be fully studied and documented because it will ruin the plans of
multi-billionaires who are paying our government in droves to turn a blind eye to
every single transgression taking place.
It’s not only about stone, mosaics and
ancient significance. It’s about this monumental carelessness and barbarism with
which authorities handle every single situation in this country, including ruins and
culture and houses and highways. And
quite honestly, I’ve come to expect nothing
less of people who probably find the pillars
of Baalbek are enough for this tiny country.
The Invisible Majority: Why Gender
Inclusion Matters in Morocco
It has been Youssef, not the diverse array of
opposition politicians, who has developed
the sharpest critique of Islamism. "We have
a façade. We have a pseudo-appearance
of what Islam is," he said. "Islam's not just
about covering your hair. It's about how you
treat other people. If you cover your hair or
you have a beard, and then you are being a
douchebag to other people, that's not Islam."
It's impossible to avoid the omnipresent
description of Youssef as "Egypt's Jon Stewart," but the two comedians share more than
a similar style. Just as Stewart took off during
the George W. Bush years among liberals
who felt alienated by the status quo, Youssef's
show speaks to secular Egyptians who feel
marginalized by the Islamist ruling class.
Thirty million viewers tune in for each episode of al-Bernameg, according to the channel that hosts it, CBC. Café crowds shush and
dinner parties stop when Youssef comes on
-- for a certain segment of Egyptians, it is not
just a comedy show, but a political event.
Youssef is well aware of how much his popularity owes to the Morsy administration,
and to the military government that came
before it. "Sarcasm all around the world is
always against right wing and against people
in power," he said. "That's the definition of
political sarcasm. And having the [Egyptian]
right wing in power is like having George W.
Bush in power: It's a gold mine for everybody."
But it is comedy with a purpose. On the Dec.
21 episode of al-Bernameg, Youssef ran clips
of Islamists delivering outrageous insults at
him. "Bassem doesn't know how to clean
himself in the bathroom," said one Islamist
pundit. "I invite him to read al-Fatiha [the
first chapter of the Quran] on the air -- if
he reads it correctly, I will stop doing dawa
[proselytization for Islam]."
veering toward conservatism. He doesn't apologize for drinking alcohol: In one episode,
following a clip where an Islamist television
personality accused the media of "suckling
on the devil's breasts," Youssef sucks on a
red baby bottle. "It could be a Bloody Mary, I
don't know," he says. And he isn't squeamish
about being interested in sex: Responding to
claims that alcohol and condoms had been
found at an anti-Morsy sit-in, he quips optimistically, "We'll be multiplying."
Youssef played down his social liberalism. He
wants to keep the focus on his argument that
Islamists are using religion to bully Egyptians
out of the public arena -- a unifying message
that transcends the liberal and conservative
divide. "[Egypt is] a conservative country,
so yeah, [that] makes people who are more
conservative get an advantage," he said. "But
what we have now is not about religion; it's
just about people who are being hot-headed
and people who are being extreme."
It's a tough line to walk. So much of Egypt's
political crisis comes down to a trust deficit:
The opposition suspects the Brotherhood and
its allies of plotting to dominate government
institutions and transform Egypt from a republic into a hard-line Islamic state. The Islamists
Youssef lampoons on his show accuse their
rivals of being hard-drinking, drug-taking
hedonists who have sex out of wedlock -essentially, forces representing a culture foreign to Egypt. The level of duplicity is far
from equal, but leaders from both sides prefer
to downplay certain aspects of who they are.
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The Middle East and North Africa
region still lags behind other comparable
countries in gender equality. Women’s
access to opportunities continues to be
restricted by socio-structural obstacles,
inflexible mentalities and deep-rooted
traditions. The Arab Spring gave women
hope that empowerment and greater
participation in decision-making were
possible, but a counter-movement of
conservatism threatens to push back any
current and future progress.
In Morocco, women have achieved
impressive gains over the past decades,
both legally and economically, and the
human development index shows clear
improvements in a wide range of areas,
namely girl’s access to schooling or a
decline in maternal mortality. But why
do women in Morocco play such a small
part in the political, economic and social
arenas?
To address this issue, the International
Finance Corporation and the World Bank
country office in Rabat held an informal
meeting in March of this year. Nadira
El Guermai, Governor and National
Coordinator of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH),
and Nouzha Skalli, former Minister of
Women’s affairs, met with World Bank
Group staff and discussed ways to help
mainstream gender equality and support government policies that empower
women socially and economically.
The discussion highlighted the lessons learnt from the first phase of the
National Initiative for Human Development, especially in terms of supporting
women in income generating activities.
Businesses were shown to be particularly successful when run by women and
Guermai pointed out that when women
were given the opportunity to manage
their own finances, it enhanced their
independence and gave them greater
impact on the community.
Skalli emphasized that women’s par-
ticipation in the decision-making process
does make a difference. Drawing on her
own experiences as a parliamentarian and
former member of government, she made
the case that women’s major concerns
and demands—like family, education,
health, and women’s rights—can only be
expressed and defended by women who are
directly impacted by these issues.
Having a voice is essential, but being
physically represented is too. Women in
Morocco still struggle to reach top management positions, despite their increasing
access to higher education. Skalli endorsed
a quota system to ensure that women are
well represented and as a way to systematically counterbalance chauvinist mentalities.
The country has enough legislative texts to
support gender-policies, but their impact
on the real-world remains limited. Steps
are needed to ensure these policies make
a concrete difference. These would include
the integration of gender inclusion across
all policy areas, to create an environment
in which women are able to take the lead in
both the public and private sectors.
The economic impact of gender inequality
in a country like Morocco is significant.
Development is seriously undermined if
half the population is disenfranchised,
excluded from decision-making, and dismissed socially and economically. Supporting women’s access to education and
economic opportunities will make a difference and will boost Morocco’s productivity and competitiveness.
Gender-oriented projects endorsed by the
World Bank Group contribute to supporting women’s role in the Moroccan society.
The Moroccan government and the World
Bank Group will continue to work together,
and will consolidate their relationship in a
new Country Partnership Strategy for the
period 2014-2017. A central component of
the new strategy will be to enhance gender
inclusion and encourage the empowerment
of Moroccan women.
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Is Egypt on Verge of Becoming
Alcohol-free Nation?
Morocco Launches World’s Largest
Solar Power Project
Social pressure
Egypt's liquor stores are under growing pressure to stop selling alcohol, they say, not
from the country's Islamist government, but
from society itself.
The shelves of Amir Aziz's central Cairo
premises are stacked with beer, wine and
spirits, but they are invisible from the street.
Aziz has covered the window with metal
sheets to avoid angering conservative Cairo
residents.
Like many liquor store owners in Egypt,
Aziz says the mood has changed drastically
since the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni
Mubarak and brought Islamists to power.
"There are no restrictions from the government on the sale of alcohol," Aziz said. "It's
the people who are giving us trouble."
Since the fall of Mubarak, Islamists longsuppressed by his regime have set up political parties and gained a voice in the media.
Consuming alcohol is banned under sharia,
Islamic law, which is the main source of legislation according to Egypt's new constitution.
"We have had no problems with the government so far. Our problems are always with
the Salafists (ultra-conservative Islamists)
who harass us, either verbally or with violence," he said.
Earlier in May, gunmen opened fire on a cafe
in the north Sinai town of El-Arish that sold
alcohol, killing a waiter.
Officials from Morsi's government have
made a string of statements in recent months
that have raised the spectre of tighter restrictions on alcohol sales.
The government doubled beer tax to 200 percent this month, with taxes on other alcoholic
drinks rising from 100 percent to 150 percent.
In February, the New Urban Communities
Authority said it would stop issuing alcohol
licences to new housing developments, and
in March Aviation Minister Wael al-Maadawi
announced plans to ban alcohol in the duty
free shops his ministry runs.
But authorities say no formal instructions
have been issued banning the sale of alcohol.
Sherif, who did not want his last name used,
manages Drinkies, an outlet for Al Ahram
Beverages, Egypt's largest liquor store chain.
He said they had not had any problems with
authorities.
'It's against our customs, regardless of the
Islamists'
"The police give us no trouble, we get our
licence renewed," he said.
But he says statements by Islamists, who
oppose the sale of alcohol and drinking on
religious grounds, are worrying.
"We have hired extra security outside the
shops," Sherif said.
Another employee at the store, Samir, said
they have to endure insults from passers-by
because they sell a product that is prohibited
by Islam.
Despite the absence of official restrictions,
many liquor stores are covering their store
fronts because of pressure from society, residents said.
At a duty free shop in central Cairo, employees
said they would welcome a ban, even though
they know it is unlikely because 80 percent of
their revenue comes from alcoholic drinks.
"I am for a ban because it's forbidden (in
Islam) and it's against our customs, regardless
of the Islamists being in power," said Shaimaa
Hassan.
Egypt has been without a parliament for
almost a year after a top court declared it
unconstitutional for technical reasons.
The price of a bottle of beer in Egypt has risen
from 7.5 Egyptian pounds (around $1.10, 0.83
euros) to almost 12 Egyptian pounds.
According to the 2013-2014 budget, the government expects tax revenues of around one
billion Egyptian pounds ($220 million, 169
million euros) from beer alone, six times the
amount of the previous budget
UN: Eat More Insects; Good for You,
Good for World
Scientists who have studied the nutritional
value of edible insects have found that red
ants, small grasshoppers and some water beetles pack (gram-per-gram or ounce-per-ounce)
enough protein to rank with lean ground beef
while having less fat per gram.
Bored with bran as a source of fiber in your
diet? Edible insects can oblige, and they also
contain useful minerals such as iron, magnesium, phosphorous, selenium and zinc.
The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against
hunger, global warming and pollution might
be flying by you right now.
Edible insects are being promoted as a lowfat, high-protein food for people, pets and
livestock. According to the U.N., they come
with appetizing side benefits: Reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and livestock pollution, creating jobs in developing countries
and feeding the millions of hungry people in
the world.
WHO EATS INSECTS NOW?
Two billion people do, largely in Asia,
Africa and Latin America, the Rome-based
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
said as it issued a report exploring edible
insect potential.
Some insects may already be in your food
(and this is no fly-in-my-soup joke). Demand
for natural food coloring as opposed to artificial dyes is increasing, the agency's experts
say. A red coloring produced from the cochineal, a scaled insect often exported from
Peru, already puts the hue in a trendy Italian
aperitif and an internationally popular brand
of strawberry yogurt. Many pharmaceutical
companies also use colorings from insects in
their pills.
PACKED WITH PROTEIN, FULL OF
FIBER
WHICH TO CHOOSE?
Beetles and caterpillars are the most common
meals among the more than 1,900 edible
insect species that people eat. Other popular
insect foods are bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets. Less popular are
termites and flies, according to U.N. data.
ECO-FRIENDLY
Insects on average can convert 2 kilograms
(4.4 pounds) of feed into 1 kilogram (2.2
pounds) of edible meat. In comparison, cattle
require 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of feed
to produce a kilogram of meat. Most insects
raised for food are likely to produce fewer
environmentally harmful greenhouse gases
than livestock, the U.N. agency says.
DON'T SWAT THE INCOME
Edible insects are a money-maker. In Africa,
four big water bottles filled with grasshoppers
can fetch a gatherer 15 euros ($20). Some caterpillars in southern Africa and weaver ant
eggs in Southeast Asia are considered delicacies and command high prices.
Insect-farms tend to be small, serving niche
markets like fish bait businesses. But since
insects thrive across a wide range of locations — from deserts to mountains — and are
highly adaptable, experts see big potential for
the insect farming industry, especially those
farming insects for animal feed. Most edible
insects are now gathered in forests.
RABAT - Morocco officially launched the
construction of a 160-megawatt solar power
plant near the desert city of Ouarzazate, the
first in a series of vast solar projects planned
in the country.
The largest of its kind in the world, according to Mustapha Bakkoury, the head of
Morocco's solar energy agency MASEN,
the thermo-solar plant will cost 7 billion dirhams (630 million euros) and is slated for
completion in 2015, the official MAP news
agency reported.
The ambitious project "reinforces the will...
to optimise the exploitation of Morocco's
natural resources, to preserve its environment... and sustain its development,"
Bakkoury said at the ceremony which was
attended by King Mohammed VI.
A consortium led by Saudi developer
ACWA Power won the contract to build the
plant, near Morocco's desert gateway city,
last September.
The World Bank, the African Development
Bank and the European Investment Bank
are helping to finance the solar complex.
It is the first of a two-phase project, due
for completion in 2020, that is expected to
cover 3,000 hectares and have a generation
capacity of 500 megawatts, enough to met
the electricity needs of Ouarzazate's 1.5 million residents.
The North African country is aiming to become
a world-class renewable energy producer, and
is eyeing the chance to export clean electricity
to neighbouring Europe.
Morocco expects to build five new solar plants
by the end of the decade with a combined production capacity of 2,000 megawatts and at an
estimated cost of nine billion dollars (6.9 billion euros).
The kingdom has no oil and gas reserves to
speak of and is hoping, with the solar projects,
along with a string of planned wind farms
along its Atlantic coast, to raise renewable
energy production to 42 percent of its total
power supply mix by 2020.
Moon and Earth Have Common Water
Source
Researchers used a multicollector ion
microprobe to study hydrogen-deuterium
ratios in lunar rock and on Earth. Their
conclusion: The Moon's water did not
come from comets but was already present
on Earth 4.5 billion years ago, when
a giant collision sent material from
Earth to form the Moon.
Water inside the Moon's mantle
came from primitive meteorites, new
research finds, the same source thought
to have supplied most of the water on
Earth. The findings raise new questions about the process that formed the
Moon.
The Moon is thought to have formed
from a disc of debris left when a giant
object hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago,
very early in Earth's history. Scientists have long assumed that the heat
from an impact of that size would
cause hydrogen and other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning
the Moon must have started off completely
dry. But recently, NASA spacecraft and new
research on samples from the Apollo missions
have shown that the Moon actually has water,
both on its surface and beneath.
Smart Phones, Dumb Laws
Is Technology Outpacing Our Ability to Regulate it?
At some point in the nottoo-distant future, for the
first time in the history of
the world, almost everyone on the planet will
become part of a single,
man-made system. Via
cell phones and the
Internet, people in every corner of the Earth
will be linked together, able to impact each
other's lives in ways that produce consequences we can only begin to understand.
Already, there are roughly as many cell
phones on the planet than there are people.
Development organizations have reordered
the hierarchy of need among the world's
poorest from food-shelter-clothing to foodshelter-clothing-cell phone. No change of
our time, not the fall of the Soviet Union
nor the rise of the big emerging powers,
is of comparable consequence. (To put matters
into perspective, the United
Nations has estimated that
4.5 billion people have
access to a toilet today, but
6 billion have access to cell
phones.)
If anything, terms like
"Information Age" only underestimate the profundity of the changes taking place in our society, changes that will challenge the most basic
rules of modern civilization. Yet, whereas the
laws that govern modern society developed
over hundreds of years and were established
based on centuries of philosophical reflection,
we are today writing new laws and making
new decisions about the shape of life without
the benefit of a new era of adequate philosophical debate.
Jordan: ICT Mergers on the Cards
The information and communication technology (ICT) sector
is looking to further expand its reach across the region, with
the giant Saudi market firmly in its sights -- though there have
been suggestions that the congested domestic industry needs to
consolidate to better equip it for overseas conquest.
The sector accounts for 14% of GDP and is growing at an annual
rate of 25%, according to data from the industry’s representative body.
ICT provides direct employment for more than 16,000 people
working in over 400 companies and key representatives, including Jordan’s minister of information and communications technology.
Jordan has an active domestic ICT market and a relatively high internet penetration rate,
with 50% of the population, now having access to the web, according to int@j. The number,
which sits well above the global figure of almost 33%, looks set to rise sharply as growing
numbers of Jordanians upgrade their mobile phone subscription to include internet services.
The Kingdom also contributes around 75% of all Arabic content on the web, according to a
study published earlier this year by the International Telecommunication Union.
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Jokes
A Jewish grandmother is watching
her grandchild playing on the beach
when a huge wave comes and takes
him out to sea. She pleads, "please
God, save my only grandson. I beg of
you, bring him back." And a big wave
comes and washes the boy back onto
the beach, good as new. She looks up
to heaven and says: "He had a hat!"
*************
A very shy guy goes into a bar and
sees a beautiful woman sitting at the
other end. After an hour of gathering
up his courage he finally goes over to
her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would
you mind if I chatted with you for a
while?" To which she responds by
yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No,
I won't sleep with you tonight!" By
now, the entire bar is staring at them.
Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and
completely embarrassed and he slinks
back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him
and apologizes. She smiles at him
and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed
you. You see, I'm a graduate student
in psychology and I'm studying how
people respond to embarrassing situations." To which he responds, at the
top of his lungs, "What do you mean
$200!
***************
A father buys a lie detector robot that
slaps you when you lie. He decides
to test it out on his Son at supper.
"Where were you last night?" "I was
at the library" The robot slaps the
Son. "OK, I was at a friend's house",
the Son admits. Doing what?" asked
the Father "Watching a movie: Toy
Story" The robot slaps the Son "OK,
it was por!" said the Son. The Father
yells "What? When I was your age
I didn't know what porn was!!" The
robot slaps the father The Mother
laughs says "He certainly is your
Son!" The robot slaps the Mother.
***************
A beautiful, sexy, good looking lady
was sitting next to a guy in a plane......
The lady said to him: "Can you help
me remove something
from my breast please?"
The exciting young man
replied, 'Wow! It will
be my pleasure....... So
what is it?'
"Your Eyes, idiot!"
**************
Reaching the end of a job interview,
the Human Resources Officer asked
a young Engineer fresh out of MIT,
"And what starting salary were you
looking for?" The Engineer replies,
"In the region of $125,000 a year,
depending on the benefits package."
The interviewer enquires, "Well,
what would you say to a package of
5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays,
full medical and dental, company
matching retirement fund to 50%
of salary, and a company car leased
every 2 years say, a red Corvette?"
The Engineer sits up straight and
says, "Wow! Are you kidding?" And
the interviewer replies, "Yeah, but
you started it."
***************
One guy to another, “Last week I
took the first step towards getting
divorced.” “Did you see a lawyer?”
“No, I got married.
***************
At the airport they asked me if anybody I didn’t know gave me anything. Even the people I know don’t
give me anything.
A guy runs into the bar and says,
"Quick, pour me 5 shots of your
best scotch." The bartender pours
them and the man drinks them as
fast as he can. "Wow that's the
fastest I've seen anyone drink,"
says the bartender. "Well you'd
drink that fast if you had what I
had," The man says "Oh my god,"
the bartender says, "What do you
have?" The man replies "50 cents."
***************
So Bill Gates and the chairman of
GM are arguing over which company is better. Bill Gates boast, "
If cars grew in technology as fast
as computers did, we would be
driving v-32 instead of v-8, our
cars would get 5000 miles to the
gallon, the top speed would be
mach seven. Anyway the sticker
price for a car would be 50 dollars." And which the GM replies,
" Sure, but would you really want
a car that crashes 4 times a day!"
***************
Four guys have been going to the
same fishing trip for many years.
Two days before the group is to
leave, Ron’s wife puts her foot
down and tells him he isn’t going.
Ron’s mates are very upset that he
can’t go, but what can they do.
Two days later the three mates get
to the camping site only to find
Ron sitting there with a tent set
up, firewood gathered, and dinner
cooking on the fire.
“Shit Ron, how long you been
here? How did you talk your
missus into letting you go ?”
“Well, I’ve been here since last
night. After dinner at home yesterday evening, I was sitting in my
chair and my wife came up behind
me and put her hands over my eyes
and said, ‘Guess who ?’” I pulled
her hands off, and she was wearing
sexy brand new lingerie. She said
had been reading ‘Fifty Shades of
Grey’ and she had a devilish look
in her eyes!!!
She took my hand and led me to
our bedroom. The room had candles and rose petals all over.
On the bed she had handcuffs, and
ropes !
She told me to tie her up and cuff
her to the bed, so I did.
And then she said, “Do whatever
you want.”
So . . . . here I am !
***************
A passerby noticed a couple of
city workers working along the
city sidewalks. The man was
quite impressed with their hard
work, but he couldn't understand
what they were doing. Finally,
he approached the workers and
asked, "I appreciate how hard
you're both working, but what the
heck are you doing? It seems that
one of you digs a hole, and then the
other guy immediately fills it back
up again. One of the city workers explained, "The third guy who
plants the trees is off sick today."
**************
Two barbershops were in red-hot
competition. One put up a sign
advertising haircuts for 7-dollars.
His competitor put up one that
read, “We repair 7-dollars hair
cuts.”
**************
A man goes to a psychiatrist and
says, “Doc, my brother’s crazy, he
thinks he’s a chicken.” The doctor
says, “Why don’t you turn him in?”
The guy says, “We would. But we
need the eggs.”
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True Love
MIRACLE OF LIFE - Twin girls, Brielle and
Kyrie, were born 12 weeks ahead of their due
date. Needing intensive care, they were placed in
separate incubators.
Kyrie began to gain weight and her health stabilized.
Brielle, born only 2 lbs, had trouble breathing,
heart problems and other complications. She was
not expected to live.
Their nurse did everything she could to make Brielle’s health better, but nothing she did was helping her. With nothing else to do, their nurse went
against hospital policy and decided to place both
babies in the same incubator.
She left the twin girls to sleep and when she
returned she found a sight she could not believe.
She called all the nurses and doctors and this is
what they saw.
As Brielle got closer to her sister, Kyrie put her
small little arm around her, as if to hug and support her sister. From that moment on, Brielle’s
breathing and heart rate stabilized and her health
became normal. A little bit of tender love goes a
long way. Show affection to all ?
As Brielle got closer to her sister, Kyrie put her
small little arm around her, as if to hug and support her sister. From that moment on, Brielle’s
breathing and heart rate stabilized and her health
became normal.
Contined from page 1
Fear Factor
cal intelligence required to locate an individual precisely
enough to stage a pinpoint strike, in a no-man's land half
a world away, is time-consuming and difficult. And it's
not a perfect science; the leaders of groups learn over
time how to operate more securely.
Signature strikes have pulled out these lower-level
threads of al Qaeda's apparatus -- and that of its global
affiliates -- rapidly enough that the deaths of top leaders are now more than matched by the destruction of the
complex support structure below them.
There are other rationales for these attacks, though. Part
of the reason signature strikes have become so prominent in this global counterterror war is, simply put, geography. Local terrorist groups only become international
threats if they have leadership that can execute a broad,
globalist vision, and if that leadership has the time and
space to plot without daily distractions from armies and
security services -- as in safe havens like Yemen, Somalia, the Sahel, and the tribal areas of Pakistan. These are
exactly the places where the United States cannot apply
conventional force and where local governments lack the
capability or will to counter the threat. Exactly the places
where drones offer an option to eviscerate a growing
terror threat that has a dispersed, diffuse hierarchy. The
places where signature strikes have proven effective.
With more capable security partners, the brutal destruction from drones above might come from more conventional operations on the ground. But, by definition, safe
havens aren't penetrable by capable security services.
There is an intangible factor that reinforces the effectiveness of signature strikes: the fear factor, coupled with
the suspicions and paranoia that result from organizations searching desperately among their ranks to find out
who is providing the Americans information so detailed
that we can wreak such havoc over such a long period
of time. Time and again, intelligence has clearly told us
that the adversary dreads these operations -- lethal strikes
that come anytime, anywhere, and that eliminate entire
swaths of organizations. And these same organizations
then turn around and further degrade their operational
capability by engaging in savage hunts for leaks.
Despite such success, questions about how we should
employ them -- or whether we should use them at all -are coming to dominate debates about signature strikes.
When do they end? And is it appropriate to strike groups
of people not because we can identify a dangerous individual terrorist among them, but instead simply because a
cluster of people bears clear hallmarks -- the "signature"
-- that is associated with a terror group. This emerging
debate will be colored, rightly, by the fact that, in just
a decade, drone technology has proliferated. The technology and its use has far outpaced the development of
policy that balances national security, morality, and the
certainty that whatever precedent we set will be used,
and abused, by the rogues and despots who no doubt will
acquire this capability.
Before the pendulum swings too far in the other direction, though, away from the unquestionably aggressive
use of drones by two consecutive presidents and toward
a model that imposes tight limits, we are going to have
to answer a simple question or two: When the president
receives information that a new group -- maybe not a
terror organization, but an evolving militant group -- is
plotting to strike America at home or abroad, what do we
do? If we strike too soon, we risk alienating a local population and increasing its motivation to target New York.
If we strike too late, a nascent group of violent extremists
will become operational, a
lesson we learned too well
12 years ago. So take off
the table the 20th-century
notion that drones will
become part of a more conventional military structure;
they won't.
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KIDZ
CORNER
NBC Nightly News,
Tom Brokaw- Not
Having TV Till 15
Years Old
Interviewed
By:
Pavlina
Osta
I'm at the ISRI
convention in
Orlando and
it's a really big
event! I can't
say I knew a
lot about ISRI before this event (which
stands for Institute of Scrap Recycling
Industries), but I went on their website
at ISRI.org and found a few interesting
facts like the US recycled enough gold in
2012 that if beaten into a thin sheet would
cover 44 square miles - more than 1/2 the
size of Washington DC! And a used aluminum can is recycled and back on the
grocery shelf within just 60 days? Keynote speaker for the ISRI in Orlando was
former news anchor & Managing Editor
of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw.
Pavlina- Not having TV till you were 15
(my age) was that a good thing or a bad
thing do you think?
Tom Brokaw- Well it was the reality of
how I grew up, it did allow me to spend
a lot of time outdoors in the hills around
the Missouri River where I grew up, and
playing baseball and swimming because I
wasn't wedded to the television but when
I got it when I was 15 I was pretty disciplined about watching only the news and
I had other things to worry about.
Pavlina- Kids have all kinds of obstacles
growing up, what obstacle did you have
and how did you overcome or deal with
it?
Tom Brokaw- You know I really didn't
have that many, but when I think back on
it my parents were very supportive we
lived in working class towns where everybody had about the same thing. There
wasn't a great big gap between the rich
and the poor, and I lived in a place were
you were always secure and save. There
was no drugs around. We drove cars too
fast and maybe when I was in high school
maybe we drank too much beer from time
to time, but by and large it was a pretty
innocent childhood.
Pavlina- We're at the ISRI convention
which is a cool place showing everything
about the recycling industry. What do you
think is the best thing you've seen so far
here?
Tom Brokaw- Well I've always been
interested in this business because they
all most always family owned and they
really do recycle all of our discarded stuff
and they make new products out of it, and
they have grown over the years from very
humble beginnings! A lot of these families had great-grandfathers who had horse
drawn wagons and they would just gather
scrap and discarded stuff and then made a
business out of it. So that is the American
way!
Pavlina- Did you report on recycling
when it first started?
Tom Brokaw- Yes, because I've been very
interested in the environment, we pay lots
of attention. We have a ranch in Montana,
that we call our "bone yard" we put a lot
of stuff we don't use anymore and try to
get recycled.
Recycling is definetly more fine tuned and
involved than back in the 1970's! Tom
Brokaw is also a New York Times Best
Selling author
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Saeed Akl is a Poet, Writer,
Playwright, Thinker and Ideologue
ANNOUNCEMENT
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He is considered one
of the most important
modern Lebanese poets.
He is also a staunch advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and
the Lebanese language,
designing a Latin-based
Lebanese alphabet made
up of 37 letters.
language. Although acknowledging the influence of Arabic, he
argued that Lebanese language
was equally if not more influenced
by Phoenician languages as well
as Aramaic language and Syriac
languages and promoted the use
of the Lebanese dialect written in
a modified Latin alphabet, rather
than the Arabic one.
His designed alphabet for the
Lebanese language used the Latin
Akl was born in the city of
alphabet in addition to a few
Zahle on July 4, 1911, Lebnewly designed letters and some
anon. After losing his father at the age of accented Latin letters to suit the Lebanese
15, he had to drop out of school and later phonology. The proposed Lebanese alphabet
worked as a teacher and then journalist. He designed by Akl contained 36 letters.
then studied theology, literature and Islamic
history, becoming a university instructor He published the tabloid newspaper Lubnaan
and subsequently lecturing in many Leba- using Lebanese dialect. Lubnaan was pubnese universities and policy institutes.
lished in two versions, one using the traditional
Arabic alphabet, the other his proposed Latin
Akl adopted a powerful doctrine of the alphabet.
authentic millennial character of Lebanon In a magazine he published during the '1970s
resonating with an exalted sense of Leba- he offered a prize in each issue to whoever
nese dignity. His admiration to the Leba- authored the best essay in Lebanese Arabic.
nese history and culture was marked by Since then the Said Akl awards had been
strong enmity towards the Arab language granted to many Lebanese intellectuals and artand culture according to Aharon Amir.
ists.
For Akl Lebanon was the cradle of culture Akl has numerous writings ranging from theand the inheritor of the Oriental civiliza- atrical plays, epics, poetry and song lyrics.
tion, well before the arrival of the Arabs His first published work was released in 1935,
on the historical stage. He emphasized the a theatrical play written in Arabic. His other
Phoenician legacy of the Lebanese people. works are written in either Lebanese Arabic,
He is known for his radical Lebanese literary Arabic, or French. He is also known for
Nationalistic sentiments; in 1972, he helped wring lyrics of many songs, including "Zahrat
to found the “Lebanese Renewal Party” al Madaen" sung by Fairuz. •1935: Bint Yifta'
which was proposed by May Murr, the (theater) •1937: Al Majdaliyyah (Epic) •1944:
renowned historian of ancient Lebanon. Qadmos (theatrer) •1950: Rindalah •1954:
This party was a non-sectarian party that Mushkilat al Nukhba •1960: Ajmal minki...?
adhered to Lebanese Nationalism. During La! •1960: Lubnaan in haka •1961: Ka's el
the Lebanese Civil War, Akl served as the Khamr •1961: Yara (using his designed Lebspiritual leader of the radical Lebanese anese alphabet) •1961: Ajraas al Yasmeen
Nationalist movement Guardians of the •1972: Kitab al Ward •1979: Qasaed min DafCedars, which was led by Etienne Saqr.
tari •1974: Kama al A'mida •1978: KhumasiLebanese language
yyat (using his designed Lebanese alphabet)
Akl is an ideologue for promotion of the In 1981 he also published poems in French
Lebanese language as independent of Arabic Language.
Palestinian Film on Love and Occupation Breaks New Ground at Cannes
'Omar', a political thriller by director Hany Abu-Assad, is the first
film to be fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry.
A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received
a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as
the first film fully funded by the Palestinian
cinema industry.
"Omar" by director Hany Abu-Assad,
known for the 2005 award-winning film
"Paradise Now", is a political thriller interwoven with a story of trust and betrayal as
two lovers are torn apart by Israel's secret
police and Palestinian "freedom fighters."
Omar, a baker, is in love with Nadia, the
sister of his friend Tarek who is a Palestinian fighter on the West Bank.
Arrested and humiliated by the Israeli military police, Omar, played by Adam Bakri,
joins Tarek and colleague Amjad in a mission to kill an Israeli soldier and ends up
imprisoned, tortured, and under pressure to
betray his friends.
Earmarked a traitor, he starts to doubt
Nadia's fidelity, especially as she is also
pursued by Amjad, and his life falls apart as
he is pursued across the ravaged Palestinian
landscape.
Abu-Assad said he was delighted by the
reception his film received at Cannes, where
picky critics are known to boo films that do
not meet their expectations, and he hoped
the festival would help gain international
attention for "Omar".
"But my first audience is the Palestinians and
the Arabs and I hope they will be engaged with
it," said Abu-Assad after the film's premiere at
the 66th Cannes festival.
"Even if they are not on the West Bank or
Palestinians ... it is about the youth and Arab
world now and I hope they can accept it and
that they can relate to it."
Abu-Assad said it had taken him about a
year to raise the $1.5 million needed to make
"Omar" which was shot in the West Bank and
the Israeli-Arab town of Nazareth last year.
He said it was the first film to be fully funded
by individual Palestinians and Palestinian
businesses.
"For the first time, we convinced businessmen
from Palestine to invest in the film industry.
It's incredible," he said.
A second Palestinian film at Cannes, the short
film "Condom Lead" by brothers Mohammed
and Ahmad Abunassar, was funded by the
filmmakers themselves. It is the first time a
Palestinian film has been included in the short
film competition at Cannes.
"Omar" is one of 18 films being screened in the
second major competition category at Cannes,
Un Certain Regard, which showcases emerging directors and more daring films than those
in the main competition vying for the top prize,
the Palme D'Or.
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