Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
Gallup: Most Muslims Feel Islamic Law Provides Justice for All
Gallup: The Coexist Foundation | by Magali Rheault and Dalia Mogahed | 25 July 2008 Many Turks, Iranians, Egyptians Link Sharia and Justice Egyptians most likely to make positive associations with Sharia The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
Remembering the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty
Mondoweiss | ByPhilip Weiss | 31 May 2010 The U.S.S. Liberty and the culture of impunity The attack on the USS Liberty is one of the great enigmas of US-Israel relations. On June 8, 1967, in the middle of the Six-Day War, Israeli planes attacked an American spy ship, the Liberty, that was in international waters off the coast of Egypt, [...]
Mubarak’s Last Breath
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 10 · 27 May 2010 | pages 6-10 Adam Shatz reports from Egypt On 6 October 1981, President Anwar al-Sadat attended a parade to mark the anniversary of the crossing of the Suez Canal in the 1973 war with Israel. It was also an occasion to display the American, British and French aircraft Egypt had [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
Video: Ayalon Stepping Down to Apologise and Shake Hands with Turki
Al Arabiya News Channel | 7 February 2010 Rejects Ayalon’s claims over Saudi support to Palestine Handshake Israeli apology to Saudi: Prince Turki RIYADH (Al Arabiya) Saudi's former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Sunday Israel's deputy foreign minister shook hands with him at a Munich security conference to apologize [...]
Oded Yinon’s “Strategy”: An Early Statement of Likudnik/Neocon Narrative and Strategy
As U.S. President Barack Obama struggles to hold back the Likudnik/Neocon pro-war lobby that holds both the Democratic and Republican parties hostage through its influence over the military-industrial-financial establishment and the media, this post reproduces (on Page 2 of the post) an early (1982) Israeli document that takes positions that are [...]
Anti-Muslim German Bigot, Alexander Wiens, 28, Gets Only 15 Years for Murder of Marwa al-Sharbini
Times Online | 11 November 2009 Life sentence for killer of 'veil martyr' Marwa al-Sherbini A Russian-born immigrant who stabbed to death a pregnant Muslim woman as she gave evidence against him in court was today given Germany’s highest possible sentence for murder -- 15 years' jail with no chance of early parole. (more...)
Italy convicts former CIA agents in renditions trial
Reuters | Article | 4 November 2009 MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a landmark ruling against the "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. Judge Oscar Magi dropped the case against another three American [...]
