Would you give up your chair to your boss or a superior who visits you? We have all seen this rather unedifying scene in which the section head or the department manager stands up and surrenders his chair to his employer or a member of the board or someone who outranks him when he visits his office. I use the word unedifying advisedly. However, it is debatable whether such an action is a gesture of So courtesy or whether it is indicative of a more deep rooted desire to ingratiate oneself with ones boss.
If only international conferences had the capacity to achieve at least a breakthrough leading to a peaceful resolution of the Mideast crisis, things would have long been settled.
Muammar Gaddafi now has started believing in martyr syndrome. His talk from a pulpit of his hideout to fight till death is no strange phenomenon. All dictators do that when faced with Hobsons choice.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has defiantly vowed to return to his country at the earliest. Recuperating from shrapnel injuries suffered in a rocket attack on the presidential palace in Sanaa last week, he is currently being treated in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
Assads regime is now facing the music. The reported killing of 120 security forces personnel at the hands of agitating Syrians in the northwestern town of Jisr Al Shughour is reprehensible.
Fissures in the Middle East are exploding. The clashes on the Golan Heights border town, in which Israel used force to disperse Syrian protesters, were not an isolated incident.
Shrapnel has made the ultimate difference. With President Ali Abdullah Al Saleh safe and recovering in Saudi Arabia, Yemen political equation has taken a new turn. The spate of ambush attacks that left Saleh badly injured has proved to be the turning point forcing the embattled president to abandon Sanaa at this critical hour of real-politick.
