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Showing posts with label honor/shame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honor/shame. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024

Again, it is all about honor. If you don't get that, you don't get anything about the Middle East.

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Downed Iranian missile in the Dead Sea From Naharnet : Hezbollah has congratulated Tehran on its attack on Israel, saying it "achieved&...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Palestinian zero sum game: "Israeli embassy in Manama is an attack on Palestinians"

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One of the consequences of the Arab honor/shame culture is the zero-sum mentality. If one party is honored, then their rival is considered s...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Libya says it will quit international energy organizations that have Israel as a member. (They won't.)

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The fallout in Libya of the discovery that Israeli and Libyan officials have been meeting secretly for years, and those officials denials, h...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

The PA would prefer that Gazans suffer. (Which has always been true.)

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This week, it was announced that a fourth generator for the Gaza power plant was going online thanks to the help of Qatar, which is providin...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Iraqi fencers withdraw from tournament to avoid Israeli competitors. Will @FIE_fencing do the right thing?

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From BNN : The Iraqi Fencing & Modern Pentathlon Federation recently decided to withdraw its team from the FIE Fencing World Championshi...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Morocco op-ed expresses anger at Palestinians

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Moroccan choosing to care more about Gaza and Taza, a city in Morocco Palestinians have been insulting Morocco for normalizing relations wit...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Why do Palestinians always declare victory when they lose?

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If this is what victory looks like.... Hussain Abdul-Hussain, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tweeted a criticism o...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Antisemitic Grand imam of Al-Azhar tells UN Security Council how to be tolerant

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Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, spoke at the UN Security Council Wednesday about the importance of "hum...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

This two year old Palestinian boy was brutally murdered. There will be no mention of it in the NYT or by NGOs.

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There was a heinous crime in Gaza this weekend. A two and a half year old child, Mustafa Nahed Muhammad Saqr, was drowned in a barrel of wa...

Poll: Jordanian hate for Israel reaches psychotic levels

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A new survey of Jordanians by the Washington Institute reveals that Jordanian hate for Israel reaches the level of self-harm. The Washington...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Egyptian mother arrested for "indecent videos" of doing housework in a modest nightgown

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RT reports: Lawyer Ashraf Farahat announced that the security services at Al-Maasara Police Station in Helwan, Egypt, arrested the owner of ...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Book review: Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? by Richard Landes

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Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad , by Professor Richard Landes, is a hard but important b...
Thursday, January 05, 2023

Most Arabs still oppose normalization with Israel, but there are pockets of hope

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Arab Barometer released the results of a survey of selected Arab countries last September. One of the questions was about whether the people...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

What you can learn from Fatah's anniversary slogan

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Fatah's pro-violence logo On January 1, Fatah will celebrate its 58th anniversary.  Well, not really. It is the 58th anniversary "o...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

A summary of the persecution of women in the Arab Middle East

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Raseef22, a liberal Arab site with an English section, has a series of articles that describe how badly women are treated in Arab countries,...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Lebanese, Iraqis, Tunisians very upset when their leaders are reported in the same room as Israelis

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The COP27 conference in Egypt has the usual comedy that we see at all major international conferences. Israeli delegates say that they met, ...