SAMEH ASHOUR

“They” refers to the West. It is actually believed by many Arabs and Muslims throughout the West is deliberately causing Islamic deaths by deliberately spreading disease and resorts to these means because the West has not other way of controlling Islam. Arab oratory emphasis exaggeration and frequent repetition as persuasive techniques. Factual analysis and independence of thinking is not part of the tradition so Islamic leaders are often believed regardless of how absurd the accusation. AIDS which is plaguing the world, is thought to be, by many Arabs, an Israeli plot to weaken and destroy Islam. The supporting evidence is that the Israelis have a very sophisticated biomedicine capability. Israel itself has a very low rate of AIDS, and AIDS is spread by promiscuous sex. Everyone knows that Islam does not allow promiscuity so therefore AIDS in Islamic lands must be being spread by the Israelis. Ironically, Arab nations have a relatively low AIDS rate.

This quotation illustrates a great problem with treaties in international law. Here an opponent of the Egyptian regime and one who disapproves of the regime before it, wants to repudiate the treaties that had been signed by previous Egyptian governments. So when there is a regime change, can a new regime repudiate earlier treaties? International law says no, but if a new government refuses to follow its obligations, then it is left to the other treaty partners to put pressure on them--breaking diplomatic relations, trade sanctions, even war. For example, President Thomas Jefferson made a treaty with the French Dictator Napoleon and bought the Louisiana Territory which includes a number of current American states. If a new French government abrogated the treaty of the dictator on the grounds that it did not represent the will of the French people and tried to take back their land, war could ensue. Nations very rarely repudiate treaties for if they did, who would sign any new ones?

“They” refers to the West. It is actually believed by many Arabs and Muslims throughout the West is deliberately causing Islamic deaths by deliberately spreading disease and resorts to these means because the West has not other way of controlling Islam. Arab oratory emphasis exaggeration and frequent repetition as persuasive techniques. Factual analysis and independence of thinking is not part of the tradition so Islamic leaders are often believed regardless of how absurd the accusation. AIDS which is plaguing the world, is thought to be, by many Arabs, an Israeli plot to weaken and destroy Islam. The supporting evidence is that the Israelis have a very sophisticated biomedicine capability. Israel itself has a very low rate of AIDS, and AIDS is spread by promiscuous sex. Everyone knows that Islam does not allow promiscuity so therefore AIDS in Islamic lands must be being spread by the Israelis. Ironically, Arab nations have a relatively low AIDS rate.

This quotation illustrates a great problem with treaties in international law. Here an opponent of the Egyptian regime and one who disapproves of the regime before it, wants to repudiate the treaties that had been signed by previous Egyptian governments. So when there is a regime change, can a new regime repudiate earlier treaties? International law says no, but if a new government refuses to follow its obligations, then it is left to the other treaty partners to put pressure on them--breaking diplomatic relations, trade sanctions, even war. For example, President Thomas Jefferson made a treaty with the French Dictator Napoleon and bought the Louisiana Territory which includes a number of current American states. If a new French government abrogated the treaty of the dictator on the grounds that it did not represent the will of the French people and tried to take back their land, war could ensue. Nations very rarely repudiate treaties for if they did, who would sign any new ones?