You can imagine the telephone calls. A third heavyweight challenger has emerged to contest the presidential election and he is another former chief of staff, General Sami Anan. Military intelligence, loyal to the incumbent president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is working overtime to brief its hand puppets in the media. “We have made this so simple even…
When Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister ever to set foot in Israel in July 2017, he made a quick stop at the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the World Zionist Organization and spiritual father of modern Israel. The 67-year-old placed a small rock on the black marble tomb at Jerusalem’s…
Al-Jazeera, December 11 Amid ongoing controversy over the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, a delegation claimed to represent Bahrain interfaith group has arrived in Israel to “send a message of peace”, according to media reports. A report in the Times of Israel on Sunday said the visit indicated a warming of…
Yogi Bear ran off with many a picnic basket. Paddington Bear would do anything for a marmalade sandwich. Now, according to Arab social media, there is a “stray bear” in Saudi Arabia, who likes to invade other people’s countries and sack their prime ministers. Since the Saudi purge on 4 November, the nickname al-dub al-dasher has taken…
