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, July 23, 2018

Pak elections: Troubling questions

Pakistanis go to the polls on Wednesday with more than the usual worries about the shape of the final outcome.Elections to the National Assembly and provincial assemblies are being held with Nawaz Sharif, a three-term prime minister, in jail. Sharif who, according to a nationwide poll, remains the most popular leader and his daughter Maryam were sent to prison on their return to Pakistan from London last week after being ...

, July 22, 2018

What Israel calls itself

Now that Israel’s parliament has narrowly passed a law characterizing the country as principally a Jewish state, how does Israel view itself and how would it like the outside world to see it?Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the bill’s passage as a “defining moment” when in actuality it is a contentious move. The legislation essentially defines Israel first and foremost as a Jewish state. Israel is not a Jewish ...

, July 21, 2018

Ireland a thorn in Israel’s side

While other countries have issued condemnations or moved to label Israeli items produced in the occupied Palestinian territories, a new bill passed by Ireland’s senate is believed to be the first that would ban the import of products from the occupied lands. That would pave the way for the country to become the first European Union nation to enforce a boycott. The bill in question, which must be approved by Ireland's ...

, July 20, 2018

Has the EU bowled Google a googly?

IS the European Commission right to have fined Google a record $5 billion for apparently abusing its dominance of smartphone operating systems to ensure that makers installed only Google’s browser Chrome and its own search engine? Back in California’s Silicon Valley pundits suspect that this week’s ruling by EU competition supremo Margrethe Vestager is all about sour grapes and Europe’s inability to rival and challenge the worldwide dominance of the US ...

, July 19, 2018

Are chief executives worth the fortunes they are paid?

Top executives do not work eight-hour days. They and the managers below them, who aspire to reach the peak of the corporate pile one day themselves, have punishing schedules of meetings and, most essential to their role, a constant flow of strategic and tactical decisions to make on an almost daily basis.They are supported by personal assistants who organize their diaries. They work with deputies to whom they delegate key ...

, July 18, 2018

Has Trump overstepped the mark?

President Donald Trump is no stranger to criticism. Indeed the constant and often unhinged vituperation from the US liberal establishment actually seems to invigorate him. It certainly played a big part in winning him the White House.But this week’s Helsinki meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has drawn flack not simply from the usual Establishment suspects but from Republican party supporters and even from within his own administration. It must ...

, July 17, 2018

Europe is wrong about Iran

Trade underpins world peace. However by the same token, the lack of trade, thanks to punitive sanctions, can play an equally important role in supporting peace. The European ought to understand this as well as anyone. White rule in South Africa was brought to an end by international sanctions. Boosted UN sanctions on North Korea have at the very least made the Pyongyang regime of Kim Jong-un sit up and ...

, July 16, 2018

Time for the Taliban to talk

The campaign for peace in Afghanistan got a big boost last week with 108 Muslim religious scholars from 32 countries calling on the Taliban to renounce violence and come to the negotiating table. Participating in a two-day International Ulema Conference on Afghanistan Peace and Security held in Jeddah and Makkah, they joined more than 200 representatives from 57 countries in drawing the Taliban’s attention to Islamic teachings against the shedding ...

, July 15, 2018

Two Saudi heroes

The story of the two Saudi students who drowned while rescuing two American youngsters in the US is remarkably sad but it is a story that should make every citizen of the Kingdom proud to be a Saudi. These two brave young men paid the ultimate price, made the ultimate sacrifice to help a couple of individuals - who they did not know at all - continue to live even ...

, July 14, 2018

Israel now stealing Palestinian money

THE new Israeli law that will withhold money from the Palestinian Authority over its payments to families of Palestinians jailed or killed by Israel is tantamount to daylight robbery. The new law — approved by 87 votes to 15 in the 120-seat Knesset — requires the Israeli government to withhold an amount of tax revenue equal to what is paid by the PA to “individuals who were involved in terror activity ...