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Morsi must be allowed to complete his term

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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Algeria, Arab Spring, Democracy, Egypt, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics

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In 1992, the Algerian military fearing the establishment of an Islamist government canceled the country’s elections. The Military also banned the group that had won the first two rounds of the democratic process, namely theย Front Islamique du Salut.

As a result, the country was plunged into civil war that resulted in the deaths of some 100, 000 people.

Already, there are echoes of that bloody conflict in the chaos that is becoming known as Egypt.

This time, the Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi was allowed to the win the country’s elections. However, a year into his Presidency and there are already crowds demanding that he leave.

If the crowds at Tahrir Square don’t get their way, there are some predicting that there will be violence.

If the government of Mohamed Morsi is not allowed to serve its full term, then that will be to the detriment of the democracy in Egypt, the laboratory from where the Arab Spring was created.

And it will also send a signal to the young in the Arab world, many of whom support Islamist movements, that democracy, the greatest political idea invented by man, is a sham.

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The Emir of Qatar hands power to his son

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Arab Spring, Egypt, Qatar

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The Arab Spring began in 2011 with an attempt to topple the long-standing dictator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak.

Eventually, it succeeded and with that came the first result of a process that continues to this day and is clearly to make an impact in Gulf states such as Bahrain, where the Emir has just handed power to his son.

It was time, said Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, to let the new generation take over.

Of course that generation, would be allowed to vote for their new leader, like they have done in Egypt and the Palestinian Territories

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America’s peace talks with the Taliban

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Karzai, Taliban, US and Afghanistan

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If the Americans have actually approached the Taliban headed by Mullah Omar, then yesterday’s announcement by Washington that it will enter peace talks with their long-standing foe is a major development.

You wouldn’t have guessed it today, though, after the rocket attack on Bagram Air base which killed four American soldiers.

If this is indeed the beginning of the end then someone needs to tell those who are doing the fighting.

 America’s approach has angered Hamid Karzai also, who put out a statement denouncing the decision to enter talks without his presence.

The American’s have never liked the Afghan President.

Karzai has a reputation for suffering from manic-depression.

And his American backers have often wondered about his state of mind, so it’s probably no loss to them to let him go, if that means peace in Afghanistan, as well as more friendly ties with the democratically elected government of Pakistan, namely that of Nawaz Sharif.

And that brings us to the negotiating table at Qatar, and what each side will be expecting from the other.

The violence hasn’t ended yet and is not likely to until a deal has been struck.

The Taliban will claim to have the upper hand, although any of its demands will be tempered with the knowledge that if the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ is to succeed it will need major international help.

The Americans will negotiate hard, but they too know that by entering talks and withdrawing their forces, they have virtually admitted defeat and that there are long-term implications of this action, especially in the Islamic World where at the moment its is embroiled in Syria.

So, how will this pan out?

Taliban agree to curb out al-Qaeda, and to ensure Afghanistan does not become a terrorist haven, and to stamp out poppy production, in exchange for America’s complete withdrawal from Afghanistan including bases.

As for the other things – honoring the constitution, women’s rights – well, they may get a mention and nothing more.

Ultimately though, this will be down to the Taliban leadership under Mullah Omar and whether they have learned anything from being some twelve years in the wilderness or whether they will simply carry on as before.

Let’s hope they do indeed have the concerns of the people Afghanistan at heart.

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Erdogan – Sultan or Sheikh?

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Erdogan, Taksim Square, Turkey

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 With helmeted police using tear gas and batons to disperse the protesters who have gathered on Taksim Square for nearly two weeks, a spectre from the past has been raised.

Is the democratically elected government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, returning to the Ottoman past?

Has he become a reactionary bloodthirsty Sultan instead of a forward-thinking sharp-suited moderniser?

At least one influential newspaper has posed this question.

And Erdogan’s behaviour prior to the protests described by some as very arrogant, as well as his statement that the protests were no ‘Turkish spring’, and now the deployment of armed riot police have not helped his case.

Of course, the Turkish republic has little in common with her Ottoman past, and the current Islamically-orientated Erdogan is no exception.

Erdogan has continued Turkey’s policy of co-operating with an outside power when it comes to foreign policy in the hope that his country will one day be accepted as a European nation.

His backing of rebels in Syria was not popular in his own country, as are the conservative reforms that he is hoping to install into the secular republic.

The Sultans were not Islamic fundamentalists and the state they ruled was an independent power in its own right.

They were men of their word – they would never have turned on a close friend the way in which Erdogan has on President Basher al-Assad.

And as for the violence they used, it was as a measure of last resort, when they believed the sultanate was under threat.

So Erdogan is not a Sultan.

Rather, in its conduct, his government resembles one from the Middle East, a sheikdom like say Saudi Arabia.

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UN’s largest ever aid appeal (..and it’s for Syria)

07 Friday Jun 2013

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Syria, Syrian Crisis

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Syrians could once boast that their’s was a country where no one slept on the street.

So, the appeal by Valerie Amos for more than five billion dollars in aid for the war ravaged nation must come as a bitter irony to everyone – those who have remained loyal to Assad and those who have fought to be free.

According to the UN co-ordinator for relief, half of the population will be in urgent need of humanitarian assistance by the end of the year.

And given the UN’s track record – remember Haiti, or East Timor – that number and the amount needed is only sure to rise.

There’s even been talk that this is another Lebanon civil war, as if that horrendous conflict which spawned the infamous massacre of Palestinians in the camps of Sabra and Shatila, was a litmus test for any freedom struggle.

Lebanon became a proxy war – after Israel invaded the south and decided to stay, a decision that resulted in the creation of Hezbollah, and later Hamas who having seen how the guerilla tactics deployed by the Shia organisation had worked against the Israeli army copied everything including the use of suicide bombers.

Syria is not a proxy war – but all the tactics ‘pioneered’ in Lebanon are there for all to see, including the damage done to a once prosperous civilian population.

A number of nations are responsible for this appalling mess, namely those who have backed a rag-tag army of fiercely divided rebels.

And it is they who should now cough up – and shut up.

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