Posted on Sun, March 4, 2012 at 11:49 am CET
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UN Report: Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi Wanted to Stage Last Stand

The UN’s Human Rights Council released an unedited version of a 220-page report on Friday detailing Muammar Gaddafi’s last hours when rebel fighters moved into Sirte… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Human Rights • International Law • Libya • Libya War • Maghreb • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, October 21, 2011 at 00:36 am CEST
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What Gaddafi’s Death Teaches the Middle East…And Should Teach the West

What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • Libya War • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, October 20, 2011 at 20:43 pm CEST
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WikiLeaks: Saif Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi’s Palestinian Adventurism

In a nod to his father’s dream to serve as grand regional mediator… Continue reading

Topics: Fatah • Hamas • Libya • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Thu, October 20, 2011 at 19:45 pm CEST
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WikiLeaks: Qaddafi Children Scandals Spilling Over Into Politics

According to a local Libyan political observer the Qaddafi family has been in a tailspin lately… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Thu, October 20, 2011 at 17:34 pm CEST
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Libya: Qaddafi is killed in Sirte

Questions swirl around the death outside Sirte Thursday of Muammar Qaddafi… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • Libya War 
Posted on Tue, August 30, 2011 at 20:40 pm CEST
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Assessing Qaddafi

The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on… Continue reading

Topics: Funding Islamic Terrorism • Global Islam • Jihadism • Libya • Libya War 
Posted on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 20:00 pm CEST
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U.S. Middle East Policy Becomes Clinically Insane

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest pronouncements are just plain horrifying. Consider what she said… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Muslim Brotherhood • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 01:51 am CEST
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U.S. Won’t Support Any Palestinian Fatah-Hamas Gov’t Unless Hamas Reforms

The U.S. won’t support any Fatah-Hamas government that includes Hamas unless the Islamist Jihadi group reforms… Continue reading

Topics: Hamas • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Italy • Palestinian Authority • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, April 26, 2011 at 01:05 am CEST
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Syria: Crackdown Begins; West Does Nothing

As I predicted yesterday, the Syrian government has now started a full-scale violent crackdown against oppositionists… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Human Rights • Syrian Revolution • The Media • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 15:18 pm CEST
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Syria’s Biggest Crisis in 40 Years

Today [April 23] Syria has entered its biggest internal crisis since 1970. The regime has come out to crush the… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 14:21 pm CEST
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The Plan in Libya (in 100 words)

Here’s what’s happening now in Libya… Continue reading

Topics: Libya War • NATO • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, April 15, 2011 at 23:30 pm CEST
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The Mobile Phone Dealer Explains Qadhafi-Zionist Witchcraft

An Australian reporter writes the following from Libya… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Libya War • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, April 9, 2011 at 02:48 am CEST
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Some European Intellectuals Go Insane With Hatred

People in English-speaking countries are often horrified and outraged by what’s published in their language’s mass media… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Barry Rubin • Europe • Media Bias • Netherlands • Pro-Palestinianism 
Posted on Sun, April 3, 2011 at 00:40 am CEST
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How The Bizarre World of Middle East Studies Messes Up U.S. Foreign Policy

Engaging in Middle East studies, as Lawrence says about putting your hand in a flame, hurts. The trick “is not minding that it hurts” and… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Miscellaneous • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, March 29, 2011 at 00:21 am CEST
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The Intervention in Libya: A Feel-Good Mirage

The Western intervention in Libya is the kind of thing that makes governments feel good and look good… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Libya War • NATO • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Nations 
Posted on Mon, March 28, 2011 at 17:16 pm CEST
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The Obama Administration Will Do Zero to Criticize or Undermine the Syrian Dictatorship

It’s official. The Obama Administration won’t do anything at all to help the Syrian people against the Bashar al-Asad dictatorship… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, March 27, 2011 at 14:50 pm CEST
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Turkey: Less Democracy But An Alternative

For several years I’ve been telling you that under its current Islamist regime, Turkey has become less and less of a democratic state… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Human Rights • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, March 22, 2011 at 20:02 pm CET
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The War in Libya: Unprecedented Strangeness

Should the United States and Europe want Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi out of power? Sure. But the real question is… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Britain • France • Libya War • NATO • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, March 21, 2011 at 23:57 pm CET
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Middle East on Fire: March 21, 2011

Events are happening so fast that I can only summarize, trying to add some analytical depth to each development. So here goes… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Iranian Protests • Libya War • Syria • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, March 17, 2011 at 00:02 am CET
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Crisis and Civil War in Libya

Here’s an (self)interview by Barry Rubin with Barry Rubin about what’s happening in Libya and U.S. foreign policy… Continue reading

Topics: Libya War • Maghreb • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, March 9, 2011 at 17:30 pm CET
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Gaddafi: The Libyan People ‘will take up Arms against Western Powers’ if Attacked

The Libyan people will take up arms against Western powers if they seek to enforce a no-fly zone in their country’s airspace… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • Libya War • NATO • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, February 25, 2011 at 01:57 am CET
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Egypt’s Revolution: The More They Reassure Us, The More We Worry

I think I was the first person to warn that the Egyptian revolution wasn’t all roses but also had a dangerous amount of thorns… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Hamas • Islamism • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, February 23, 2011 at 19:38 pm CET
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Libya and UN’s Human Rights Policy

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for an immediate end to violent repression of Libya protests in a… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • International Law • Libya • Libya War • Satire • United Nations 
Posted on Sun, January 2, 2011 at 14:05 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Ugandan President’s Fears of Libyan Attack

Ugandan President Museveni said Libyan President Qadhafi “is a problem” for the continent and is pushing for the creation of a “United States of Africa” to be governed by one president. Museveni noted that tensions… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • Uganda • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sun, September 5, 2010 at 22:35 pm CEST
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The Dilemma of Diplomats

Diplomats, a British ambassador explained several centuries ago, are gentlemen sent abroad to lie for their country. I’d add that the problems start when they start to lie on behalf of other countries, while the disaster begins when they start to lie for… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • Global Jihad • Libya • United States of America