Egypt: Secularism? What Secularism?by Tuvia Tenenbom http://www.hudson-ny.org/1873/egypt-secularism Last Friday in Egypt people showed up for a “Day of Departure” protest at et-Tahrir Square. But somehow during the day it became unclear just how many of them exactly showed up. Western news organizations did not find it contradictory to concurrently give different figures. Take The New […]
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/mandatory-arabic-classes-coming-to-mansfield/ NEXT WILL THEY ALSO CHANGE THE NAME TO “DALLAHS”…RSK MANSFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) – A Mansfield ISD program to teach Arabic language and culture in schools is on hold for now, and may not happen at all. The school district wanted students at selected schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110207/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan Hundreds attend funeral of Guantanamo Bay detainee By ADAM SCHRECK, KABUL, Afghanistan – Hundreds of mourners, some chanting anti-American slogans, turned out Monday for the funeral of an Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who collapsed and died while exercising at the U.S. detention center last week. The mourners ran alongside a vehicle carrying the […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142222 Arabs, Leftists Force Bush to Scrap Speech to Swiss Jews by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Planned disturbances by Arabs and leftists have forced former U.S. President George W. Bush to cancel a speech to the United Israel Appeal (UIA) in Switzerland due to concerns for his security. The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous […]
Is a Palestinian Statehood in the Near Future a Realistic Proposition? Hadar Sela & Eli E. Hertz http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?articleID=195 “Israel has just as much right to demand from the EU and other Quartet members not to be forced into accepting a Palestinian Arab state on its borders which they themselves would not accept as a functional […]
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney020811.php3 Friend of Shariah Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., JWR.com Like ordinary folks, presidents of the United States are known by the company they keep. It is a test of their character. Often it shapes their policies. And, in the case of Barack Obama, it may blight his legacy and our nation’s […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025856,00.html Exposing Arab falsehoods Op-ed: Discourse on Israel-Palestinian conflict based on urban myths, not historical fact Martin Sherman “Indeed, at the very heart of the Palestinian struggle is a determination to win back (the) very rights and protections long denied us by Israel.” Hanan Ashrawi – Palestinians, America and the UN, NYT Jan 20, 2011 […]
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=207409 Abbas, Dahlan take out Jordanian citizenship By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Move comes as PA urges Amman to stop giving Palestinians citizenship to “consolidate their identity”; Jordanian official warns King Abdullah II against repercussions of revoking citizenship. Senior Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas and his two sons, have been given Jordanian […]
http://www.rationalpublicradio.com/israel-has-peace-agreement-with-mubarak-not-with-egypt.html ElBaradei: Israel has peace agreement with Mubarak, not with Egypt One of the reasons that the revolt in Egypt is so important is what their new government’s foreign policy will be. The Middle East is tumultuous at the best of times, but Egypt hasn’t been a part of the fighting since 1973 with the […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,744092,00.html A Voice as Powerful as Countries Can Al-Jazeera Topple Governments?By Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash The wave of protests in the Arab world has highlighted the power of Al-Jazeera, which has unparalleled influence in the Middle East. It has been banned from reporting on the unrest in Egypt, where its reporters have been targeted […]
