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Netanyahu should step down
The announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges marks a dramatic moment in Israeli politics and is a major blow to Netanyahu as he seeks a fifth term in office. However, Netanyahu should stop trying to reach this latest finish line. He should resign now.Netanyahu is alleged to have accepted gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensed favors to try to get more positive press coverage. As such, he is facing three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing.Netanyahu is entitled to the hearing on the impending indictment before charges are formally laid, but that is not expected to take place until long after the election on April 9. That puts his coalition partners in a bind. They must now decide whether to...
March 03, 2019

Netanyahu should step down

Warning signal for Egyptian railways
The tragedy at Cairo’s Ramses railway station in which at least 20 people were killed and some 40 injured, is all the greater because it already seems clear that it was entirely avoidable. The official investigation ought to discover the full facts. However, there are strong grounds to believe that the locomotive, which smashed into buffers at high speed, had been undergoing maintenance work outside the station. It appears the engine involved was a US-designed EMD G22 series, built under license and used around the world until 1991. It has been a workhorse of Egyptian National Railways (ENR). It could have had two thousand gallons of diesel fuel aboard when it crashed into the busy station. Though diesel has a far lower flashpoint than petrol, the horrific blaze that followed suggests...
February 28, 2019

Warning signal for Egyptian railways

More smoke and mirrors from Tehran
WHAT can be made of the sudden resignation of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a resignation which after two days, President Hassan Rouhani refused to accept? At first blush, it is very tempting to see this as another of Tehran’s exercises in smoke and mirrors, which signify precious little, if anything at all.The speculation over what prompted Zarif to quit has focused on the visit this week of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, which it appears was not organized by the Iranian foreign ministry. In his opaque statement on Monday, Zarif said that he hoped his ministry would be allowed to reclaim its “proper statutory role”. It appears that Zarif was not invited to join meetings that Assad had with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Rouhani, meetings...
February 28, 2019

More smoke and mirrors from Tehran

Urgent de-escalation essential
The Indian air strikes on Pakistan are an unacceptable escalation in the confrontation between these two nuclear-armed powers over Kashmir. They are also particularly disappointing given the efforts last week of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman to defuse the rising tensions between the two countries.The assault by Indian warplanes was on what Delhi says was a training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group in Balakot. While the Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told a news conference there were heavy casualties, Islamabad reported no one had been killed or injured but that the attackers had dropped their bombs on open ground and fled when Pakistani fighters were scrambled to intercept them. Pakistan’s army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor produced photographs to back up this...
February 27, 2019

Urgent de-escalation essential

The Kim-Trump Hanoi summit
VIETNAM has revoked the visa of a look-alike of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who last week held an impromptu “summit” with a Donald Trump impersonator in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, where there real Trump and Kim are due to hold their second summit talks starting on Wednesday.The Vietnamese authorities stand accused of a sense of humor failure in deporting Australian-Chinese impersonator Howard X who first hit the headlines last year when he danced in front of North Korean cheerleaders at the Seoul Winter Olympics. It is unclear if Russell White, the Canadian who pretended to be Donald Trump has also been given his marching orders by the Hanoi government. But in any event, the shenanigans of this pair are being taken by some commentators as a metaphor for the Trump-Kim summit,...
February 26, 2019

The Kim-Trump Hanoi summit

Choosing sides in Venezuela
Humanitarian aid has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing standoff between Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaido. The delivery of aid to Venezuela has proven to be a key area of contention between the two men who see themselves as the country’s leader. That split has Venezuela polarized with anti-government protests and counter-protests daily, as backers and opponents in Venezuela and beyond choose who to side with.The US and other countries sent aid to Colombia and Brazil in hopes of providing relief to the impoverished and malnourished nation. Maduro, however, has ordered Venezuela’s border with Brazil closed, and broke diplomatic relations with Colombia. He also ordered his forces to block the aid, saying that the assistance is tantamount to foreign intervention. He’s denied that...
February 25, 2019

Choosing sides in Venezuela

Finally, a close race in Israel
Former Israeli army chief and rising political star Benny Gantz and centrist leader Yair Lapid have upended Israel’s April 9 elections with their decision to join forces against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Netanyahu and his right-wing allies are still favored to win on a security platform but Gantz’s “Blue and White” alliance with Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid Party represents a major challenge. Gantz’s newly created Resilience Party soared in opinion polls taken a day after he made his maiden political speech. Gantz and Lapid, who agreed to rotate as prime minister if they win, are joined by former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and ex-military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi in a move intended to emphasize their military experience to challenge Netanyahu’s claim that he is...
February 24, 2019

Finally, a close race in Israel

A burning need to learn
A DEVASTATING fire has swept through an old quarter of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. More than seventy people are known to have perished and a number of buildings destroyed. Yet, while this blaze is a terrible tragedy, it is also a testament to this country’s remarkable economic success. Bangladesh is notorious for the series of deadly fires and structural failures in the garment industry, which culminated in the 2013 collapse of the multi-story Rana Plaza in which 1,134 workers died. The catastrophe was the culmination of a series of incidents, including the Tazreen fire five months earlier, in which 112 were burned to death. Factory owners making handsome profits manufacturing clothes and footwear for big name international brands had been ignoring every rule in the book. Their...
February 21, 2019

A burning need to learn

What to do with captured terrorists
The fools from around the world, most of them young, who flocked to support Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) have paid the price for their wicked choice. The last terrorist remnants are fighting for their lives in a small enclave in Syria. Thousands of their fellow dupes have died, many blown to pieces by Coalition bombs or blasted by Iraqi security forces or Kurdish militias.Thousands more have been captured and are currently being held in camps. Some were once Daesh fighters, who used to parade around with their black flags brutalizing the locals in areas they had overrun. Others are the wives and children of these killers. Most of the women went willingly to Daesh territory, smuggled easily through a once-indulgent Turkey. They included teenagers who responded to the blasphemous terrorist...
February 21, 2019

What to do with captured terrorists

Chinese sensitivities
Working out what matters to the Chinese is now an important consideration for everyone else around the world. The nineteenth century was dominated by European colonial powers and the twentieth by the United States. Few would now argue that in the current century, Asia and in particular China, will play a pivotal, if not indeed predominant role.Six hundred years ago China possessed some 3,500 ocean-going vessels, some of them many times larger than ships being built in Europe at the time. These so-called “Treasure Fleets” sailed westwards to India, the Arabian peninsula and along the East African Coast. Under Admiral Zheng He, heavily-armed trading vessels with crews of up to 1,500 sailors and soldiers were trading at least as far as the southern tip of Africa. Because all records were...
February 20, 2019

Chinese sensitivities

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