[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It’s quite ironic that a day after Qatar’s appeal to the International Court of Justice to take measures against the UAE, claiming that the UAE is discriminating against Qatari citizens, several international human rights organizations testified about the UAE’s achievements in human rights.
This occurred during the UN Human Rights Council’s session at Geneva aimed at adopting the UAE’s third report on the human rights situation in the country.
What was acknowledged during this session is yet another confession by the world’s countries and the international community that the UAE’s human rights record has developed. The UAE always works to improve human rights, and has succeeded in providing security and applying the law on everyone in the country, which is home to over 200 nationalities.
Qatar has gone far with its dispute with its neighbors. It went as far as resorting to the ICJ and the Human Rights Council as after it lost its media battle with the boycotting countries and spent billions on media figures, media institutions and public relations companies, it endeavored on another miserable attempt which is to use international institutions
Mohammed Al-Hammadi
Empty accusations
In response to Qatar’s allegations and its complaint at the ICJ at The Hague against the UAE, claiming that it’s discriminating against Qataris, the UAE refuted all claims while Qatar failed to provide convincing and documented evidence to the court to back its claims.
All that Qatar based its allegations on are undocumented reports by Qatari human rights organizations or international reports in which no official measures have been taken. Therefore, the court cannot take these reports into account because Qatar leaked them without the permission of the relevant parties.
Meanwhile, the biggest loss which Doha suffered last week was related to the four boycotting countries banning Qatari flights from entering their airspace.
After the International Civil Aviation Organization decided to give Qatar a chance and listen to its demands, the four boycotting countries decided to submit a dispute against Qatar regarding their sovereign airspace to the ICJ as it is the relevant authority.
They also sought the ICAO’s approval to look into Qatar’s illegal claims as it departs from the technical competence of the organization, especially that the crux of the issue is Qatar’s support of terrorism and activities that incite strife in the region’s countries. Accordingly, the four states will continue to close their regional airspace to Qatari aircrafts in order to preserve their national security and sovereign right guaranteed by international law.
This is expected to last for a long time since the appeals and hearings of the ICJ are expected to take a while before a decision is made.
Qatar has gone far with its dispute with its neighbors. It went as far as resorting to the ICJ and the Human Rights Council as after it lost its media battle with the boycotting countries and spent billions on media figures, media institutions and public relations companies, it endeavored on another miserable attempt which is to use international institutions and human rights organizations to pressure the anti-terror quartet. However, we are certain that it will lose this battle because very simply “the solution is in Riyadh.”
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[American Thinker] During the 1980s and 1990s, China created the Iranian nuclear weapons program through the sales of complete nuclear and missile facilities, along with dual-use and unfinished technologies. Yet, in 1997, Bill Clinton told the U.S. Congress that "China has provided clear and unequivocal assurances to the United States that it is not assisting and will not assist any non-nuclear weapon state, either directly or indirectly, in acquiring nuclear explosive devices or the material and components for such devices."
The Clinton administration's foreign policy was a disaster, and Clinton's statement to Congress exemplifies how incompetent his administration was on a range of national security issues. In fact, Clinton's claim was so dangerous that it directly placed the West on a collision course with a nuclear-armed Iran (and North Korea), irreparably damaging non-proliferation efforts in the process. Even now, we still see those on both sides of the political spectrum denying China's ongoing role in Iran's nuclear program.
Back in 2006, John Tkacik, a senior research fellow in China policy at the Heritage Foundation, authored a report that concluded the following:
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[National Review] Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said definitively Monday that the Trump administration will not alter its protectionist trade agenda in response to a downturn, however drastic, in the stock market. Wilbuuuuuur....
"There’s no bright-line level of the stock market that’s going to change policy," Ross said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. "The president is trying to fix long-term problems that should have been fixed a long time ago."
Widespread concern about the administration’s expanding trade war with both European allies and China is slowing the bull market that Trump has enjoyed since taking office. Ross, however, cast the downturn as the inevitable cost of high-level trade negotiations in his comments Monday.
"There is obviously going to be some pulling and tugging as we try to deal with very serious problems," he said. "There will be some hiccups along the way."
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Has anybody - ANYbody - ever described any potential benefits to 'Tarmp's Trade Way"?
If there is no possible benefit, then the plan must be the work of Trump and his basket of deplorable lunatics.
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Trump is negotiating trade, not actually starting a trade war. During a negotiation there are bluffs and exaggerations and such. Folks either do not or are intentionally misunderstanding what's going on. I suspect the later.
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Trade imbalances, depending on the type, amount, and ignorances can kill a civilization. Including America. Just ask the native Americans how the imbalances/ignorances of the time worked out for them. This has to be addressed by adults, and not just ride on the status quo.
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Nobody names their kid Wibuuuur anymore. Perhaps they should. Sexcapades and personal grooming are obviously not an issue. This fellow appears to take his job quite seriously.
[Townhall] The Islamic Republic of Iran accused the Jewish State of Israel of cloud and snow theft. Jews were blamed for moving the clouds away from Iran, in an intentional effort to exacerbate Iran's prolonged drought.
"We are facing the issue of cloud and snow theft," Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, said at a press conference, while blaming Israel and another country for the weather larceny. He cited a survey showing that, above 2,200 meters (7,218 feet), all mountainous areas between Afghanistan and the Mediterranean are covered in snow, except Iran.
Earlier this year, a Democrat lawmaker in D.C. similarly accused Jews of controlling the weather when he experienced snow in March, regurgitating a California conspiracy theorist's anti-Semitic propaganda about Jews controlling climate change.
But alas, I have solved the mystery of the stolen snow clouds. The unwanted snow clouds that came into D.C. in March were, in fact, the snow clouds intended for Iran in July, but stolen, and then sent back in time to attack D.C.!
Both the Democrat and the Iranian officials appear to have kept their jobs.
To be fair, the Democrat did apologize to the Jews, because, he explained, they funded his campaign, sooo ...
And the Iranian official was contradicted by an Iranian meteorologist, but now that the scientist has contradicted the Iranian government, we may never hear from him again, sooo ...
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[Townhall] The Islamic Republic of Iran accused the Jewish State of Israel of cloud and snow theft. Jews were blamed for moving the clouds away from Iran, in an intentional effort to exacerbate Iran's prolonged drought.
