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micklethwait

Israeli women do Gaza strip for IDF | The Times of Israel - 0 views

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israeli gaza strip idf social media

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  • micklethwait on 25 Jul 14
     
    Possibly NSFW.
ccfuentez

Human trafficking: Irina's story - 0 views

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human trafficking forced prostitution 16 years old madams quick trip

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  • ccfuentez on 31 Mar 16
     
    This article gives the story of Irina, a 16-year-old student form Southern Russia. A family friend told her and her mom that Irina could earn $500 by simply taking a "quick trip" to the Middle East. Irina was then stripped of all of her money and passport and forced into prostitution.
nicolet1189

ICSR Insight - Offering Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq a Way Out / ICSR - 0 views

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  • Boris Johnson proposed that all the British fighters in Syria should be presumed guilty unless proven innocent
  • dangerous and counterproductive proposal
  • increase — rather than diminish — the terrorist threat to [Britain] .
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  • a database of more than 450 fighters currently in Syria and Iraq.
  • motivations for travelling to Syria are diverse
  • tougher laws and blanket punishment shouldn’t be the only approach.
  • one in nine former fighters subsequently became involved in terrorist activity
  • In many cases they are disillusioned, psychologically disturbed, or just tired.
  • ideological, vicious and bloodthirsty fighters who attract the headlines,
  • many have found the reality to be far different from what they were led to believe.
  • When he first travelled out there, he said “it was all focused on Assad,” he said. “But now it’s just Muslims fighting Muslims. We didn’t come here for this.”
  • The blanket approach taken by the government — to threaten all returnees with draconian prison sentences — Abu Mohammed says, makes him feel trapped. “We’re forced to stay and fight, what choice do we have? It’s sad,” he told us.
  • Following the defeat of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Arab-Afghan fighters could not return to their home countries. They were stripped of their citizenship
  • regrouped in Sudan and formed a Jihadist Internationale, from which al-Qaeda emerged.
  • men were offered no opportunity to disengage from the path they had chosen.
  • Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other countries
  • deradicalisation programmes to convince jihadists to disengage
  • deradicalisation along with monitoring and surveillance.
  • would be willing to submit to such a scheme, were it available, in order to return to the UK.
  • the Channel Project.
  • More than 1000 people
  • successfully engaged through this programme.
  • Treating all foreign fighters as terrorists, however, risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • This is not about being soft: it’s about being smart.
  • In prison, by contrast, they are likely to be further radicalised while potentially exposing others to a hardened ideology and worldview.
  • another friend who recently quit the fight after he couldn’t accept what he saw out there.
  • experience — they need to be heard, not locked away.
  • nicolet1189 on 29 Sep 14
     
    This was an article (originally published by the Independent, however, I found it on their website via my first article from the BBC) by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence of London. The article suggests, allowing fighters to return home safely and enroll in a De-radicalization program would be more beneficial than current policies of severe punishment (prison, stripping of citizenship, etc.). The authors contend current repercussions for fighters returning to their home countries leave them trapped and isolated and prison sentences often lead to further radicalization. Overall this article really captured my attention in its non-conventional proposal for governments to handle these situations.
klweber2

Letters from the Editors Cairo-based... - Oum Cartoon أم كرتون - 0 views

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egypt satire cartoon media

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  • hat mourning strip is broadcast on television screens, as seen above, to evoke collective anguish.
  • lack line gags the news, coming to life and restricting the anchor’s speech.
  • memorialize freedom of expression, inserting that dark strip above a framed picture that reads, “Freedom,”
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  • eacting to the Egyptian media’s support for the state. 
  • ree speech can become a causality.
  • hmed Okasha
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    This is another cartoon from Oum Cartoon of a cartoon illustrating the current issue of censorship in Egypt. The cartoon is a reaction of how the media is now supporting the government and how it will not demean them.  
jshnide

Report: Violence Against Hamas in Gaza - Middle East - News - Arutz Sheva - 0 views

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Hamas Israel palestine gaza revolt violence

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  • jshnide on 23 Feb 15
     
    Residents of the Gaza strip fight back against Hamas
jshnide

Gazans Speak Out: Hamas War Crimes - 0 views

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Hamas Israel palestine gaza war crimes

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  • jshnide on 23 Feb 15
     
    Residents of the gaza strip are tired of hamas occupation and their war crimes
kevinobkirchner

Egypt Orders Evacuation Along Gaza Border to Thwart Militants - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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gaza egypt palestine sinai militants

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  • kevinobkirchner on 30 Oct 14
     
    The Egyptian government has ordered the forced evacuation of homes along the 9 mile border with the Gaza strip. The homes will be demolished to make room for a 500 yard wide buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza that includes water-filled trenches to stop tunnel diggers. This buffer zone is designed to stop the flow of arms and militants from Gaza into Egypt which authorities believe are responsible for the rise in terrorism in the Sinai peninsula. This is primarily a response to the October 24th terrorist attack that killed 31 soldiers in eastern Sinai.
jshnide

Political map - Palestine Link - 0 views

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fatah hamas parties people ISIS

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  • jshnide on 13 Apr 15
     
    The distribution of political mindedness is heavily mixed in the Gaza Strip. Other organizations in the area are also influencing the movements of people in the area.
jshnide

Fatah, Hamas agree to cede control of Gaza to unity government - Arab-Israeli Conflict ... - 0 views

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hamas control gaza unity government conflict

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  • jshnide on 13 Apr 15
     
    Israel's view of the new Palestinian unity government in the Gaza Strip. The sharing of power allowed over 70,000 people to return to government work.
natphan

Hamas Hospitals Treating ISIS Terrorists in Exchange for Money, Weapons - 0 views

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egypt ISIS ISIL Hamas Israel Gaza Strip Sinai

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  • natphan on 09 Feb 16
     
    Iranian-based Hamas is using Gaza strip hospitals to treat ISIL fighters in exchange for valuable resources. This exchange comes as a result of Egypt's aggressive campaign to destroy Hamas tunnels through Egypt, leaving Hamas resources very scarce.
atownen

Turkey Urges Safe Passage for N. Syria Refugees - 0 views

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Turkey Syrian refugees Kurds

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  • atownen on 17 Feb 16
     
    Turkey is now providing a safe haven for Syrian refugees in addition to Jordan's efforts. Turkish officials are trying to build a coalition to back a secure strip of territory for safe passage of refugees. There seems to be some significant disagreement between Turkey and the Kurdish militia.
sheldonmer

ArchaeoVenturers - media - 0 views

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America egypt Human Rights free speech social media

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      sheldonmer on 16 Nov 14
       
      This is a wonderful article about social justice through the eyes of an American. This article starts of with a quote from a UC Berkley student who is reflecting on the Free Speech movement and Civil Rights movements of the 1960s. The article ties the ideas behind these movements into the Arab Uprisings through means of Human Rights. Through witnessing atrocities overseas, many Americans become compelled to take action to be able to try and provide the freedoms they enjoy everyday, to the people the have witnessed being stripped of any rights.
jreyesc

This Is How ISIS Smuggles Oil - 0 views

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money Oil Smugglers ISIS ISIL Syria

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  • Turkish-Syrian border
  • The militants can make more than $1 million a day selling oil from fields captured in eastern Syria.
  • In recent months, the government has vowed to crack down on illicit oil, and police have targeted smuggling routes, seizing oil drums and digging up pipelines.
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  • helped make ISIS the world’s richest extremists.
  • Rebel groups targeted oil resources from the regime in battles often overshadowed by higher-profile fronts in the war — namely in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, where there were refineries and oil fields.
  • Strapped for cash, the rebels smuggled some of the oil to buyers in Turkey, whose government was one of the Syrian opposition’s main backers, having already opened its borders to activists, fighters, and refugees.
  • Omar would receive a call from a commander in the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the U.S.-backed rebel coalition, telling him to head to the Syrian side of the border.
  • If he took in $1,500 in a night, he would give $500 to the FSA commander and another $500 to the Turkish border guards. “You can’t really say that we are smuggling oil, because we take permission from the Turkish side and the Syrian side,” Omar said. “But since it’s under the table, we call it smuggling.”
  • it controlled Raqqa, and soon after it was battling for control of the rebel-held parts of Deir Ezzor.
  • As ISIS gained new oil fields, Omar kept smuggling. He may have worked along an FSA-run border, but he knew he was buying the oil from middlemen who had taken it from ISIS’s hands.
  • For ISIS, the profits were startup funds as it built up its self-styled caliphate, buying weapons and paying salaries.
  • U.S. airstrikes now targeting its oil infrastructure, ISIS can make over $1 million a day from the trade
  • ISIS controls 60% of the oil-producing resources in eastern Syria, he said, plus a handful of marginal oil fields in Iraq.
  • The group sells most of it within its own territory in Iraq and in Syria — which covers more than 12,000 miles, a size comparable to Belgium, and includes some 8 million people, a population approaching Switzerland’s. Desperate residents need the fuel to run their cars, generators, and bakeries.
  • It was the worst example of a wartime pillage that has stripped Syria of everything of value, from scrap metal to precious artifacts. “I just want to show the world what they are doing to my country,” he said.
  • jreyesc on 13 Nov 14
     
    ISIS has become very rich extremist group because of the oil smuggling business they are involved in.
mharcour

Hamas Defined - 0 views

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Israel Israeli-Palestinian conflict Palestine Netanyahu Rockets PLO

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  • jshnide on 08 Apr 15
     
    Hamas plays a large role in Palestinian politics. Their clash with Fatah in 2007 struck the Gaza strip and led to an outbreak in fighting and sanctions put onto Hamas.
  • mharcour on 11 Apr 15
     
    This BBC News Profile offers a good overview of the organization, their roots, and their aims for Gaza and their Palestinian supporters.
aromo0

Egypt's Trouble With Women - The New York Times - 2 views

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women egypt rights organization

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  • The first plane to cross the finish line was piloted by a 26-year-old woman named Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt’s first female aviator.
  • father had rejected the idea, but she did not despa
  • “I learned to fly because I love to be free.”
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  • hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.
  • Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights
  • women followed her exam
  • Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.
  • 22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation
  • women
  • Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.
  • woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.
  • promote female genital mutilation
  • cover her body completely and may not study,
  • women started to wear the
  • cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.
  • control women’s sexuality.
  • Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women
  • hijab
  • 83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.
  • When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.
  • many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm
  • The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.
  • Dec. 17, 201
  • Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots
  • victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women
  • mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying
  • in the home
  • During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets
  • rity.
  • President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.
  • They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.
  • The revolutionaries are fighting for equality
  • trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho
  • 10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508
  • epresents a future that no one can prevent.
  • diamond03 on 06 Oct 14
     
    This article discusses how women have been treated differently since the beginning of time. Things began to change once women began to stand up for themselves in protests. 
  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Egypt's tradition of was not initially oppressive. The 1973 war in the Middle East introduced Egyptians to Wahhabis values.
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