The news today heralds more storms in the Middle East’s horizons. Khadaffy’s youngest son and grandchildren died in a NATO airstrike. Ahmadinejad boycotts his office (can a president do that?) disappearing from public view after a clash with the powerful Mullahs while an Iranian general declared the Gulf forever Persian not Arab. Suicide bomber killed an Iraq judge and many others. Syria made more arrests after hundreds are dead.
Bahrain likewise made more arrests and launched a boycott of Iranian goods. Egypt will open the Rafa’a border crossing with Gaza while Israel is in a diplomatic frenzy begging USA/UN not to recognize a Palestinian Unity Government between the Hamas and PLO (divide and rule). Saudi Arabia clamps on Press Freedom and arrests more Shi’a activists.
They say; whenever the Middle East sneezes...the rest of the world gets the cold (oil price hikes) but the Philippine gets the cough as well with its millions of foreign workers caught in the crossfire.
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