Middle East Archives - Heather's Homilies

Where I’ve Been, Soleimani, and Solace

Heather Hastie — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 02:29:43 +0000

I thought you were all deserving of an explanation. I said, “I’m back,” and since then there’s been little further. As well as the other posts I previously mentioned, I’m now trying to write a Proper Post about the Iran situation, but it’s going slowly. So, I’m including a few initial thoughts here about the […]

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Trump Fiddles While Rome Burns

Heather Hastie — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 03:14:27 +0000

The military might of the modern US has been compared to that of the Roman Empire. Donald Trump appears to imagine himself in the role of its emperor. If there is a way he can exercise power without abiding by his country’s norms, he will use it. For example, despite constant and virulent criticism of […]

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Trump Weak on Khashoggi Disappearance

Heather Hastie — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:41:11 +0000

Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it should be, that there’s nothing I can say […]

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Trump is a Fu€ki₦g Moron re JCPOA

Heather Hastie — Wed, 09 May 2018 03:53:57 +0000

I can’t believe this is happening. Well I can. But I held onto hope overnight that someone would talk him out of this. However, I awoke to the news that President Trump has actually announced that he’s pulling the US out of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) aka the Iran Nuclear Agreement. The […]

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Trump Should Retain the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 03 May 2018 02:56:16 +0000

A couple of days ago, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did a slick presentation announcing he had proof that Iran was lying when they signed the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (It’s official name is the JCPOA – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.) Therefore, his logic went, the deal should be torn up. This comes at the […]

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Homily: Why Are Iranians Protesting? (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:51:31 +0000

Once again the tweets of the US president expose how unfit he is for high public office. His “mine is bigger than yours” tweet (see below) to Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is schoolyard stuff. The thing is, there were actually tweets President Trump got right yesterday. He did three in support of […]

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Homily: An Ill-Informed Feminist Attacks Jerry Coyne (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True‘ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real feminist‘. It’s about, “… Anna Muzychuk, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who holds the women’s […]

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Trump and the Jerusalem Decision (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:58:12 +0000

Tweets are about the least important thing on my mind at the moment. On Wednesday morning I had a bad fall. Walking is never that easy for me, but now every step is agony. Still, that’s actually not the worst of my problems. 3½ hours later my landlord told me she was selling the house. […]

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Why the Iran Nuclear Agreement is a Good Deal

Heather Hastie — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:46:54 +0000

The official name of the Iran Nuclear agreement is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. It was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran on one side and France, Great Britain, China, Germany, Russia, and the US on the other. The alliance of France, Great Britain, China, […]

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FGM Has Economic Benefits Says Egyptian Imam

Heather Hastie — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 06:30:34 +0000

Note to Readers: There are images of FGM and sexually explicit statements in this post. Yes, you read that right – an Egyptian imam says FGM (female genital mutilation), which he calls female circumcision, has economic benefits. What’s more, he has a doozy of a theory as to why that’s so. There’s a pretty big […]

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