Posts Tagged: democracy
Just Yesterday In Tunis
The Arab spring is slowly turning into a nefarious malediction. Just yesterday in Tunis, the leader of the "moderate" Islamic party Hennada, Rached Ghannouchi, who happened...
Gaddafi’s PR Agency VS. Israel Public Relations
The following two points are relevant to public relations vis-à-vis Israel and it's consistent failure to best the Arab world in the ongoing media war: 1. As...
Why You Might Want To Take a Glance at Finland
In 1997, New Labour came to power in Great Britain pledging to be get tough on global-warming and it was a pledge that they lived...
Iranian Winter Could Chill the Arab Spring
Since the "Arab Spring" began four months ago in Tunisia, U.S. media have focused constantly and generally optimistically on the turmoil in the Middle East....
Can Another Arab-Israeli Conflict Be Avoided?
Probably the most shocking development following the Egyptian turmoil was the speed with which various American liberals had pronounced their indifference to the future of...
Final Thoughts on What Egypt Will Mean for the US, Israel
Rebel forces have taken over a number of cities in Libya as Muammar Gaddafi declares "my people love me." Whatever the outcome of these...
How to Make Egypt Safe for Democracy
Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the unstable Middle East. Although not...
Not Worrying About Egypt
Sitting in Jerusalem, it only makes sense that over the past month I have been keeping one eye focused due south towards Egypt, watching an...
Avoiding Euphoria over Obama
A strange euphoria seems to have blinded some Israelis and American Jews concerning the context of President Barack Obama's veto of a UN resolution. In the...
Obama, Who Hedged and Didn’t Lead, is the Big Loser on Egypt
I'm sitting and watching President Obama's speech on the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He is eloquent as usual, giving compelling visuals of...
The Difficult History of Religion and Freedom
Fears are mounting over the growing crisis in the Middle East. Even as the current pharaoh of Mitzrayim (the Biblical name for Egypt) has now bowed...
Mubarak Out
President Mubarak is stepping down. And freinds both real and virtual are in high celebration mode. But I cannot join them. What exactly are we...
Democracies Dancing with the Devil
The continuing chaos that has drawn all eyes to Egypt, has led many to pontificate the flaws of democracy. More specifically called into question, is...
Netanyahu Addresses the Knesset : The situation in Egypt
"We have two separate worlds here, two opposites, two world views: that of the free, democratic world and that of the radical world. Which...
