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How much is an Arab brain worth exactly? |
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By Salaam Abdul Khaliq, IFN Columnist
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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Egypt and Algeria have proved to the world that Arab brains are truly of little use when it comes to things that matter and things that don’t. If two nations put the pride and be-all of their peoples in a game where 22 players compete on a green pitch to put a leather ball into an empty net, there is a lot to be said about these two nations and their peoples.
At about the same time Egypt and Algeria were slugging it out in a media war (but truth be told that 90 percent of the media escalation lies in the Egyptian camp), Israel announced the building of 900 units in an illegal settlement in East Jerusalem, and Israeli settlers in the West Bank destroyed close to 100 olive trees that belonged to a Palestinian farmer. Israel also pounded Gaza with renewed air strikes and killed at least two Palestinians. Israel was very pleased that two major Arab countries were too busy hating each other over a game of soccer and forgetting about the Goldstone Commission’s Report that found it guilty of what amounts to genocide.
Dubai recently announced that it won’t be able to repay its debt worth $60 billion until May of 2010. The debt was incurred in various investment made in Dubai’s real estate market. The Emirate has spent the better part of the last decade frantically building skyscrapers, pal-tree shaped man-made islands, structures that are the biggest and tallest in the world with borrowed money. The rulers of the tiny sheikhdom decided that building mighty structures in the middle of the desert where camels and SUVs compete for space was somehow a brilliant idea.
Someone whispered it was perhaps a better idea to build technology research centers such as a NASA satellite center, a Silicon Valley complex maybe, or perhaps the biggest university in the world that could attract the brightest brains in the world to build a technologically advanced and a powerful nation? The Arab brain would have none of that mode of thinking. Maybe that idea was already acquired, developed and executed to perfection by the Jewish brain. That idea is called Israel. And all the ideas that Arab brains have produced is... tall bankrupt buildings, imported Louvre museums near camel stables, camel beauty pageants, blood feuds over soccer games, oppressive dictatorships and never-ending corruption. That, in a nutshell, is why the Arab brain costs more, Shlomo has found out... because it truly is barely used.
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