http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains ‘The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their […]
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206969 Dangerously underestimating the Muslim Brotherhood By DAVID HOROVITZ Analysis: The Islamists’ tactical absence from the protests has been widely misread as proof of their lack of ambition and marginality. The precedents are fresh and obvious. Yet the US government seems intent on ignoring them. In Iran in 1979, leftist and other secular forces, central […]
The Iconoclast 1 CAIR Warns Orange County DA: “Capituation or violence” over Prosecution of MSU Students by Jerry Gordon UCIrvine Muslim students protest Orange County DA Charges Orange County, California District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced charges February 3rd against 11 Muslim students eight from UCIrvine, 3 from UC Riverside, who disrupted a speech by Israeli […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8619/pub_detail.asp Muslim Brotherhood Making Political Gains in Egypt and Jordan The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report Global media are reporting on comments by a prominent Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman that if President Mubarak is replaced, a referendum will be held to decide the fate of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. According to one report: […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8628/pub_detail.asp The threat of more school closings in New York brought an unruly mob atmosphere to the large public hearing held by the Department of Education this week. The throngs of teenagers screaming “We Don’t Care” is emblematic of more fundamental issues than their not wanting to hear any speechifying by Cathy Black, Bloomberg’s unpopular new appointment […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110205/wl_afp/egyptpoliticsunrestgasisrael CAIRO (AFP) – Unknown saboteurs attacked an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Jordan, forcing authorities to switch off gas supply from a twin pipeline to Israel, an official told AFP. The attackers used explosives against the pipeline in the town of Lihfen in northern Sinai, near the Gaza Strip, the official said. It was […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6672569/beyond-the-pale.thtml Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, has written an absolutely blistering attack on the Guardian for publishing its so-called ‘Palestine Papers’, previously discussed here and here. Prosor states flatly that, with this coverage, the Guardian has now established itself beyond doubt as the mouthpiece for Hamas – and he furthermore accuses columnist Seumas […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259040 Don’t Count on Egypt’s Army We cannot trust Egypt’s military to combat Islamists. ‘My name is Khalid Islambouli,” the assassin thundered. “I have slain Pharaoh, and I do not fear death!” This was at an annual state parade in Cairo on October 6, 1981. Islambouli, swelling with a delirious pride, had just strafed the […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-2015-state-of-the-union-address/ Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address BY HOWARD ROTBERG On February 5, 2011 “And now, turning to our policy towards the Middle East and the sweeping changes that have occurred there, I want to again pledge that while America is not willing, after Iraq, to ever again wage war in the Middle East, […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/western-folly-in-mideast-comes-home-to-roost-but-democracy-in-egypt-must-be-supported/#more-3760 Here are two sets of statistics that you have never been informed about by the BBC, and have never heard from the mouth of a senior official in the British Foreign Office: According to a major opinion poll survey conducted by Pew in 2006, 97 percent of Egyptians admitted to holding “somewhat unfavourable” or […]
