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Syria’s rebel leader Abu Mohammad al Julani is promising to build a secular, inclusive society that respects minority rights. Western leaders are eating it up. They’re salivating at the chance to snatch Syria from Russia’s autocratic axis and parade it as a new democracy. President Biden is so impressed he scrapped the $10 million bounty… Read more.
Jordan has cancelled a summit it was to host in Amman on Wednesday with U.S. President Joe Biden. … Biden was expected to make a whirlwind trip to Israel, where he would later head to Jordan and according to Jordanian officials meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Jordan’s King… Read more.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) exposed his perfidy and Trump’s cupidity with the brutal assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prevailing feature of President Trump’s foreign policy is the way he courts world leaders with whom he has, or is scheming to establish, personal financial ties. Nothing betrayed this quite like… Read more.
Won’t these brutal dictators ever learn? Think what you will of the cowardly path Tunisia’s Ben Ali took by fleeing into exile. At least he was smart enough to avoid the humiliation Egypt’s Mubarak is now suffering. Mubarak’s being wheeled into court on his deathbed to face trial, which will surely end in his Saddam-like… Read more.
