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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Iranian foreign minister invites Egyptian counterpart to Tehran
In case you’re wondering, this is a disaster for US-Israeli policy of isolating Iran and a major triumph for Iran. AlMasry AlYoum: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has invited his Egyptian counterpart, Nabil al-Arabi, to visit Tehran to improve … Continue reading
Young Israelis: A Turn to the Right
New York Review of Books: “For the last two or three years, we’ve been seeing a very consistent trend of younger Israelis becoming increasingly right-wing,†Dahlia Scheindlin, a public opinion analyst who also contributes to +972, told me. Last year, … Continue reading
Breaking with the Past: Egypt’s Emerging Foreign Policy Part II
YNET News: Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi stated Sunday that his country would demand that Israel pay the price differences for the reduced gas it purchased during the Hosni Mubarak era.”We will honor everything we signed on and we’ll demand … Continue reading
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Tagged Egyptian Revolution
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Video: Bahrain’s Crackdown
See the testament to the Bahraini government’s notion of “reforms” here. When a government, any government, has to resort to such detestable brutality, it has lost all legitimacy to rule. They can rule with violence, but only for a short … Continue reading
Iran Dominates US Response to Arab Spring
New York Times: The mullahs in Tehran, noted Thomas E. Donilon, the national security adviser, were watching Mr. Obama’s every move in the Arab world. They would interpret a failure to back up his declaration that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Libya
Tagged Iran, Libyan Revolt, US Foreign Policy
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Egypt’s PM sacks heads of state television and radio
Some more cosmetic changes in Egypt – AlMasry AlYoum: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Saturday decided to sack state television and radio officials who were accused of conducting smear campaigns against protesters and inciting murder during Egypt’s 25 January revolution … Continue reading
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Facebook takes down page calling for a Palestinian uprising
Facebook has bowed to pro-Israeli pressure and has taken down the facebook page calling for a third intifada. Other gov’ts pressed facebook to take down pages that called for uprisings in other countries, but facebook refused. In the case of … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine, Social Networking, The Conflict
Tagged Facebook, Palestine Intifada III
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Quran Burning
I wanted to share this really good quote I recently read about the most recent absurdity in Florida and how that is affecting lives overseas: “The tragedy of the Koran burning and riots in Afghanistan is the way extremists from … Continue reading
Five myths about Muslims in America
Washington Post: 1. American Muslims are foreigners. Islam was in America even before there was a United States. But Muslims didn’t peaceably emigrate — slave-traders brought them here. Historians estimate that up to 30 percent of enslaved blacks were Muslims. … Continue reading
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Egypt: Subverting Democracy Part V
AlMasry AlYoum: An Egyptian military court postponed the trial of a blogger accused of spreading information that insults the military until next Sunday, judicial sources said on Friday. Military police arrested the Egyptian blogger, Michael Nabil, on 28 March at … Continue reading