Hichem Karoui
October 26, 2001 Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
Some people in the West think that since the majority in Israel had elected General Sharon, as Prime Minister, he should be respected as any democratic leader in the civilized world! Well! Hitler also had been elected by a majority of Germans, with however a [...]
FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL
Hichem Karoui
October 25, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
Many observers believe now that the Iraqi regime is likely the next target of the US war machine. It is just a question of timing. Those among the Arabs who are feigning amazement while contemplating that perspective are either oblivious of [...]
Hichem Karoui
October 24, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
The war against the Taliban is quite unpopular in the Arab world, some people say; which may be true. But, is that implying that there are wars that are popular? Which one? Maybe the Gulf war since it had to liberate a small [...]
Hichem Karoui
October 23, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
In charging the PFLP of all the responsibility as regards the current Israeli escalation and outlawing it, Arafat likely thinks that it would be enough to placate Sharon and to make him more thoughtful as to the consequences of his acts. But this [...]
in the lost places of this world!
Hichem Karoui, October 22, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle; Middle East News Online.
The Islamic fundamentalism under its terrorist version is an expression of the failure and the growing discredit of the contemporary Arab and Muslim States. True that the sword has always figured prominently in Islamic history, that the [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 19, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
Tehran is utterly worried. The message it is trying to convey to the West may contain a double significance, if not more. On one hand, the Islamic republic believes that its 900km long border with Afghanistan makes of the future of this [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 18, 2001 (MMN); Palestine Chronicle, Middle East News Online.
It sounds as if nowadays’ Israelis are losing the marks of a collapsing Old World without finding the way to the new one. Many of them are not even aware that times are changing and that clinging with teeth and fingernails to a wreck [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 17, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle; Middle East News Online.
When Mr. Donald Rumsfeld aboard his Air Force jet en route to Riyadh in the beginning of this month, was telling reporters ” it’s not going to be a cruise missile or a bomber that’s going to be the determining factor (…) but [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 16, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle; Middle East News Online.
So at last, it seems that the Bush government is now convinced that there will be no anti-terrorist coalition working unless an effort to keeping public diplomacy more efficient is consented. Still it is obvious that such well-purposed endeavor has to go beyond [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 15, 2001 (MMN) ; Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
What’s happened to Mr. Colin Powell? He is barely recognizable! In its Sept.10 issue Time magazine labeled him ironically the missing man: ” Where have you gone Powell?” read the taunt on the cover. Is it not amazing that the man who [...]
Hichem Karoui, October 15, 2001 – Palestine Chronicle ; Middle East News Online.
The French position as regards the American riposte to the Sep. 11’s terrorist attacks has sensibly evolved from a cautious moral support based on sympathy to more an active military involvement alongside the USA. In their press briefing on November 6, both Presidents [...]
