Opinion | Columnists
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Thursday Aug 11
Will Obama stand up to Israel?
US president has a chance to endorse Palestinian statehood given the Jewish lobby's shrinking influence
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Thursday Aug 11
Al Assad’s actions don’t befit a real man
Saudi King has tolerated insults in his effort to make the Syrian president see sense, but his patience is running out
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Thursday Aug 11
Pyongyang's theatrics
North Korea's latest peace overture to the US is part of its strategy to achieve its goal of getting American troops out of South Korea
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Thursday Aug 11
Soft landing is still likely for China
What the numbers show is that China's economy appears quite robust and its appetite for commodities remains undimmed
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Thursday Aug 11
Asia needs to think of 10 things
It's time for Asia to figure out how to get beyond US trade, which locks it into buying ever more US debt to keep their own currencies artificially weak
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Thursday Aug 11
Avoiding dollar doldrums must be the top priority
Economies that have long seen the Greenback as standard must realign policy and investment in light of US downgrade
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Thursday Aug 11
Gross proves Summers wrong
Gross's Pacific Investment Management Co said the US economy may be headed for a long period of below-average growth and high unemployment, a scenario known as 'new normal'
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Thursday Aug 11
Ahmadinejad appears to have done a deal with the Guards
Getting the military on his side allows him to prepare to challenge Khamenei's nominees in the 2012 presidential elections
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Wednesday Aug 10
Off the Cuff: Fighting the evil in my brain
I am sorry I cannot write anything funny this week because I have got food on my mind… well, most of the time
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Wednesday Aug 10
Managing pressure at work: Cellphones and family holidays
Making time to go on holiday with the family is a commitment in exactly the same way as we have business commitments
Opinion Editor's choice
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Will Obama stand up to Israel?
By George S. Hishmeh, Special to Gulf News
US president has a chance to endorse Palestinian statehood given the Jewish lobby's shrinking influence
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Al Assad’s actions don’t befit a real man
By Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf News
Saudi King has tolerated insults in his effort to make the Syrian president see sense, but his patience is running out
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Ahmadinejad's deal with the Guards
By Francis Matthew, Editor at Large
Getting the military on his side allows him to prepare to challenge Khamenei's nominees in the 2012 presidential elections