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Trump triumphant
To the utter dismay of the US liberal establishment, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated investigation has failed to find any evidence that Moscow conspired to help him win the 2016 election. However, Trump-haters are drawing as much consolation as they can from Mueller’s further finding that he could not be sure if the president had sought to obstruct justice.All this became evident in a four-page summary of the Special Counsel’s report that Attorney General William Barr delivered to Congress. Trump’s enemies are now demanding that Barr should release the entire report, without any redactions. The administration will almost certainly argue that the contents are protected by executive privilege. There is, however, a strong case for putting the entire document in the...
March 26, 2019

Trump triumphant

New Zealand shows America the way
It is only a little over a week since 50 worshippers were gunned down by a lone assailant in two mosques in Christchurch, but much has changed in New Zealand. Friday’s Muslim call to prayer was broadcast across the nation and a two-minute moment of silence was observed. Non-Muslim women were encouraged to wear hijabs to work, school or play on Friday in a show of support for New Zealand’s Muslims. Worshippers have returned to the Al-Noor Mosque, the dead have all been identified and have started to be buried, and some 3,000 people walked through Christchurch in a “march for love” intended to honor the victims.However, just six days after the mosque attacks, the most consequential development was the announcement by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of a complete ban on...
March 25, 2019

New Zealand shows America the way

Golan reversal
President Donald Trump has once again overturned decades of US policy, this time by saying it was time to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967. The first time was recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is further evidence that the Trump administration is willing to ignore international law, including Security Council resolutions, in order to satisfy Israeli demands.The Golan becoming Israeli territory because Trump says so has no legal justification. As was said after the Jerusalem announcement in December 2017, the US administration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital did not mean that Jerusalem suddenly became the capital of Israel. So, too, recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory amounts...
March 24, 2019

Golan reversal

The final verdict
THERE are ethnic Serbs still at liberty, living quietly, maybe now in retirement, drinking coffee with friends, surrounded by their children and grandchildren, who a quarter of a century ago set out to destroy the lives and happiness of people very much like them except that they were Muslims. These individuals were the Bosnian Serb thugs who ran death and torture camps and whose ultimate crime was the genocidal slaughter of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since the mass murders of millions carried out by Germany’s Nazis. The devastating ethnic cleansing against both the Bosnian Muslim and Croat communities still seems unbelievable in a Europe that prided itself on its tolerance, inclusiveness and the rule of law. Yet these enormities took...
March 21, 2019

The final verdict

Is it time for a permanent UN international rescue force?
The United Nations is reporting that Cyclone Idai is probably the most destructive storm ever known to have struck the southern hemisphere.Estimates of the dead and homeless in five different countries, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa, suggest that maybe thousands have died, many are injured and millions made homeless by this giant cyclone.“Idai” can mean “Love” or “Awakening” but there has been nothing affectionate about the devastating and unpredictable path this storm took, while it has certainly provided a rude awakening for hard-stretched local emergency services.High winds tore apart buildings in Mozambique’s key port of Beira while torrential rain caused rivers to swell and flooded large areas in the city. Hardly less catastrophic damage was...
March 21, 2019

Is it time for a permanent UN international rescue force?

Cutting off the oxygen of publicity
There would seem to be a strong possibility that the Turkish-born suspect in the shooting dead of three people on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht was motivated by the enormity of the mosque slayings in New Zealand’s Christchurch, which the killer filmed and live-streamed on social media site Facebook.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may also be linked. To the dismay of many countries, not least the New Zealand government, he rebroadcast part of the mass-murderer’s footage at rallies for Turkey’s forthcoming municipal elections. He explained he did this because the suspect in the Christchurch carnage had visited Turkey and in a rambling 70-page document found by police after his arrest ranted specifically about Turkish immigrants “invading” Europe.Some unconfirmed...
March 20, 2019

Cutting off the oxygen of publicity

Macron must take back the streets
Most people in countries governed by the rule of law will have been astonished at the continued violent and criminal activities of the so-called gilets jaunes (yellow vests) in Paris. France, of course, is a republic born of revolution and unruly demonstrating seems to be in French blood.Farmers in particular are notorious for their lawlessness, blocking roads and dumping mountains of produce outside town halls and ministries. All too often the police merely look on indulgently. Transport workers and automotive unions think nothing of closing down ports or factories and attacking, even kidnapping anyone who tries to cross their picket lines.The eighteen weeks of gilets jaunes protests began initially in the countryside as a response to President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to order a...
March 19, 2019

Macron must take back the streets

College cheats
The race to get into top-tier colleges in the US is annual but it has recently been discovered that the real contest lies in the money being paid through the back door to get a privileged child into a big-name university. In what US authorities are calling the largest ever college admissions bribery case, wealthy families allegedly paid college coaches and admission test insiders to rig the system and get their children admitted to top universities, including Yale, Stanford and the University of Southern California.The case is looking at a period between 2011 and 2018 when, according to the authorities, $25 million in bribes were paid by parents - actors, business executives, doctors and lawyers - looking to sneak around the usual university admittance process. They did so by bribing...
March 18, 2019

College cheats

Islamophobia at its deadliest
In the immediate aftermath of the mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 49 people were killed and scores more injured, the immediate focus will be on supporting the victims’ families, a grief-stricken nation and devastated Muslims the world over. There will also be questions over the coming days over whether New Zealand had sufficient warning systems in place given that the shooter had posted disturbing material on Facebook in advance of the attack.There will be questions over how the shooter managed to acquire several guns. And, of course, many will question the ethics of social platforms and some media outlets showing the carnage as the perpetrator, with a camera installed in his helmet, live-streamed the massacre online.Despite all these...
March 17, 2019

Islamophobia at its deadliest

Fake news in Libya?
IDENTIFYING fake news requires several steps. The first and most obvious, which is generally neglected by social media users, is simply to pause and think before forwarding a piece of information to all their contacts. During that hesitation, it needs to be asked “Is this really likely?” ,“What other information might corroborate it?” And “who has most to gain by peddling this claim?”.Unfortunately, too many people on social media are more interested in attracting attention to themselves than they are in considering the veracity of information they post. Indeed, it could be argued that there is a general inability to place claims in any proper context or worse, there is a downright malign purpose in passing out fake news, knowing fully well that it is largely, if not...
March 14, 2019

Fake news in Libya?

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