Results for “Arab League”

Russia and China tried to justify their vetoes by claiming that the Arab states were divided over Syria. This wasn’t true then and is less so now. The Arab League has suspended Syria’s membership and condemned the rule-by-massacre policy. Arab support is also building up for crea...

…gh a geo political earthquake. The world order, which existed since the demise of the Ottoman Empire, is collapsing.The Arab Spring appears to have turned into an Islamist Winter. Borders are erased. Old tribal and sectarian disputes have awakened. In perfect storm like fashion I...

17 SPIEGEL: Many Arabs now feel that your institution is not very efficient. Elaraby: The historic moment of change has gripped the entire region, and sooner or later it will change all Arab countries. The League will certainly need to adjust to that. We must be capable of reac...

… will likely be less accommodating to American military forces than they have been in the past. To be sure, much of the Arab support for past American military operations -- like both Iraq wars -- was hidden from the public eye. Arab states often loudly and publicly denounced "un...

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… path of autocracy, this does not suggest the futility of change or of promoting democracy in Egypt, nor, say, that the Arab Spring was a failure. Autocracy will not be a permanent fix for the factors that nourished the Arab Spring. It will work for a while, maybe even a decade,...

…t years ago, when Internet communications were still in the nascent stage -- although, I must say, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates had already made noteworthy progress in this field. During that initial online interview, my objective was to stimulate the interest of the Emirat...

…mandate to rule over Palestine was unsustainable. The British had proposed a series of arrangements to accommodate both Arab and Jewish aspirations. Now, the UN was meeting to consider the idea of splitting Palestine into two new states, one Arab and the other Jewish. Since the...

…uge bonfire blazed in front of the bakery. All around us the grown-ups were singing and dancing in celebration. On the Arab side, there was no rejoicing. Every one of the Arab delegations at the UN voted against partition, rejecting a Jewish state even if it was created along wi...

…s ties with Israel and the West. The Gushing Wound of Palestine The Palestinian question has been at the heart of the Arab political discourse for the last seven decades. The 1979 peace deal between Egypt and Israel ushered in an unprecedented phase of strong bilateral cooperat...

…inue their policy of non-intervention in internal affairs of other countries (e.g. KSA goes Islamic). KSA’s response to Arab Spring was to double the pay of everyone in the military. Gfoeller. KSA social welfare was $20/bbl per year, now $85/bbl, projected at $300/bbl in 2030. T...

…. But there was one passage in his speech that touched me especially. He ran through the history of how Egypt and other Arab states had not just fought Israel, but denied our right to exist as a state. “We used to brand you as so-called Israel,” he said. Now, the leader of our mo...

…. But there was one passage in his speech that touched me especially. He ran through the history of how Egypt and other Arab states had not just fought Israel, but denied our right to exist as a state. “We used to brand you as so-called Israel,” he said. Now, the leader of our mo...

…ayris cannot be initiated into the sect—create very strong notions of apartness and disdain for the “Other.” The great Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun, who died in 1406, elaborated the concept of ‘asabiyya—variously translated as clannism or group solidarity—that provide...

…wo key constituencies that had helped deliver my landslide victory barely 18 months earlier: my own Labor Party and the Arab citizens of Israel. I had no trouble understanding the reasons many Israeli Arabs were abandoning me. The clashes in the Galilee at the start of the new in...