Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

My comment on Paul Rogers's recent article "Its ambitious aim was to cause the overthrow of the 'near enemy' regimes in the Middle East and southwest Asia, replacing them with 'proper' Islamist regimes; to see Zionism destroyed..." Do you have figures and evidence of any attacks on Israel's interests? Are they of any significance? More importantly, you too either has fallen in a trap or that is just your way of working withing the frame work of defending the system, trying to make it better. You are speaking about "the same mistakes being made." They are not mistakes and only an apologist for the state terrorism of the Western regimes would call them mistakes. Occupations, invasions, support of dictators in the Middle East and outside the Middle East, imposed economic policies, support of Israel's state terrorism, support of the so-called Islamist liberals as long as they maintain the status quo of "the free market" and depe

An e-book and interview The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine  (e-book) My interview with Ilan Pappe Syriza's U-turn on Israel is Now Complete

I think this incident is full of metaphor, allegory, images, parabols, etc when put into the context of occupation, ethnic cleansing, rape, plunder, and all other barbaric acts of a state. Tel Aviv, Israel: "a sex worker, who worked 12-hour shifts and slept with up to 30 men a day, hanged herself. Three hours after her body was found, the brothel went back to work."  Source: Haaretz.com, 22 August 2015.

Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and be safe at home may  be long gone Robert Fisk, author of The Great War for Civilization . Yes, It Is Islamic Extremism - But Why? Graham E. Fuller is a former vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, and author of numerous books on the Middle East and Islamic movements. His first novel, “Breaking Faith: A Novel of Espionage and an American’s Crisis of Conscience in Pakistan,” will be out in March 2015.

A photo by Everyday Egypt

Here is how that paper defended the barbaric action of the British state Invading Iraq was the Right Thing to Do, according to The Telegraph

" We resist evil by not being swept away by the surface of things, by stopping ourselves and beginning to think—that is, by reaching another dimension than the horizon of everyday life." Hannah Arendt "Why Do Some Islamist Groups Seem Sadistic, Even Evil?" Read also Are We ISIS? Flag Down

Endless War? The legacies of "The War on Terror". My interview with David Keen (LSE) in 2006. 

In Riyadh, It's Hard to Feel at Home

"A divided Europe will not necessarily replicate the horrors of the early 20th century. History will rhyme, however, at the intersection of several trends running in parallel. The splintering of Europe overlays the   erosion of central authority within the Sykes-Picot borders  in the Middle East — borders that the Europeans created to divide the region and tighten their colonial grip. With those territories in prolonged conflict, the weakening of those regimes and the radical ideologies borne out of power vacuums will risk drawing a minority of European Muslims into battle   while driving migrants   into the heart of Europe, accelerating Europe's path toward  fragmentation." The Fear of the Other Europe The Lucky Generation

The Churchill You Didn't Know

Arab Revolts - Past and Present Joseph Messad

" This morning when I awoke I made the mistake of turning on the television "news". Two of the world's worst murderous thugs, Barack Obama and Francois Hollande were opining about their partnership to destroy Daesh/ISIL and how they would protect our freedoms by bombing the Middle East into rubble and removing Bashar al-Assad from power, and the utter hypocrisy of their verbal nonsense was too much  for me. They continue to up the massive military ante which puts all western citizens at increasing risk in their own countries while systematically stripping away our freedoms, and straight faced they expect us to sop up such blatant drivel. Before the rise in my gorge caused me to lose my breakfast I turned it off, which is what I have been doing consistently since the Paris attack and whenever these so-called leaders of the "free" western countries are pontificating publicly, which is far too often. The television networks must be noticing a precipitous drop

From Left Bank to Left Behind: Where Have the Great Frenceh Thinkers Gone?

"This is the Worst Time for Society to Go on Pscyhopathic Autopilot Frankie Boyle My comment:  1. Boyle mixed up Camus and Sartre. Camus actually opposed the independence of Algeria. " As far as Algeria is concerned, national independence is a formula driven by nothing other than passion. There has never yet been an Algerian nation. The Jews, the Turks, Greeks, Italians, or Berbers would be as entitled to claim the leadership of this potential nation. As things stand, the Arabs do not comprise the whole of Algeria … The French of Algeria are also natives, in the strong sense of the word. Moreover, a purely Arab Algeria could not achieve that economic independence without which political independence is nothing but an illusion." (cited by Said, 1993 p 179). 2. Boyle has fallen in the mainstream discourse of "mistakes" made in the foreign policy. History has shown many times that those "mistakes" are a pattern and part and parcel of the functionin

Turkey: the long good read Kemalism After Kemal

Against Charity

Looking back and forward The Unity Trap A reply to Robert Fisk Dangerous Shortcuts

The Critique of Religious Thought A book review The book in English Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm' critique of Edward Saïd's Orientalism

For the Last Time: "The West"