Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
August 16, 2013

US to Islamists: Elections are for chumps. Go get your AK-47.

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Here's a not too bad article from Peter Beinart in the Daily Beast .  Titled Obama's Greatest Failure , it's a criticism of Obam...
July 21, 2013

Blair's Hypocrisy and the Riddle of the Sphinx

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From Private Eye magazine number 1344: The same page (5) has a brief summary of Blair's love affair with democracy in Egypt: ...
July 06, 2013

Palestine's Pinochet hails Egypt's Pinochet

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In all the tumult I hadn't noticed that Mahmud Abbas had hailed the overthrow of the elected government of Egypt by the Egyptian army.  ...
February 23, 2013

Advice on democracy from the only democracy in the Middle East

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Here's a bizarre piece in The Times of Israel .  A former Israeli minister under Ehud Olmert and an adviser to the nearly but not quite ...

Meet the new Egypt....

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Same as the old Egypt. Here's The Guardian : Egypt  spent the equivalent of £1.7m on 140,000 US-sourced teargas canisters last month...
November 29, 2012

Finkelstein on Israel's recent defeat by Hamas and the Arab Spring

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Many of us have felt let down by Norman Finkelstein recently what with his statements about BDS which didn't quite tally with the realit...
November 22, 2012

So where was the Reverend Tony Blair?

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Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and Israel's envoy to the so-called Peace Quartet, at first came out in favour of Israel's ope...
March 22, 2012

Message from within the largest concentration camp in history: "Gaza is Dying"

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Since June, 2007 Israel has adopted a continuous series of measures harming the civilian population. In September,2007 Gaza was declared ...
September 15, 2011

People move to cut Jordan's ties to Israel

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Here's a remarkable piece on the MSNBC news site. Israel was evacuating its embassy in Jordan on Wednesday in advance of a demonstrati...
September 02, 2011

Call to Egypt: Open the Rafah Crossing!

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Egyptian Embassies Contact information London Tel: 020 7235 9777
 Fax:020 7235 5684 consulate@egyptianconsulate.co.uk Madrid  Te...
August 03, 2011

Israeli Labourite offered Mubarak asylum

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It was the least Israel could do for its man in Cairo and just typical that an offer of asylum under Israeli protection would come from a La...
May 30, 2011

The reactionary Egyptian government DID NOT open the Rafah crossing

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While most gush over the public relation stunt pulled by the lousy, reactionary, zionist, neoliberal, comprador government of post Mubarak E...
March 13, 2011

The Egyptian Revolution and Palestine

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SOAS Palestine Society Presents: The Egyptian Revolution and Palestine:   A Panel of Youth Organisers from Tahrir Square With   Nariman Y...
February 26, 2011

Who learned what from whom?

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I got a text yesterday telling me that I'd had a letter published in The Independent so I bought a copy. Here's what I was respond...
February 11, 2011

This year in Egypt, Next year in Palestine

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Although not fully aware of the rosy glasses he wears, the runaway Israeli ambassador in Egypt is a hopeful man, about whose prophesies one ...

Mubarak resigns

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No real surprise there but it is exciting that the Egyptian people have risen against and overcome a stooge for the USA and the State of Isr...
February 09, 2011

The Snake Oil of Unsustainability

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As the Egyptian popular revolt rages on, and may, thanks to the ingenuity and perseverance of the people and the mistakes of the regime, eng...