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in title, tags, annotations or urlHere's the Movie That Egyptians Just StorMed the U.S. EMbassy Over - Max Fisher - The Atlantic - 1 views
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protesters in Cairo are gathered at the U.S. embassy compound, where some have scaled the walls and pulled down the American flag
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protesting an American film that insults Prophet mohammed
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The movie is called mohammed Nabi al-muslimin, or mohammed, Prophet of the muslims. If you've never heard of it, that's because the few clips circulating online are dubbed in Arabic. The above clip, which is allegedly from the film (I haven't been able to confirm this) is one of the only in English. That's also because it's allegedly produced by Florida Pastor Terry Jones (yes, the asshole who burnt the Koran despite Defense Secretary Robert m. Gates' pleas) and two Egyptians living in the U.S., according to Egyptian press accounts. The Egyptians are allegedly Coptic, the Christian minority that makes up about a tenth of Egypt
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Aid to Egypt stalled in Congress - 0 views
Brown Moses Blog: StateMent On Russia Today's Use Of My Blog's Credibility To Give Credence To Dubious Videos - 0 views
Editorial - A More DeMocratic Turkey - NYTiMes.coM - 0 views
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Passage of these amendments, which had the endorsement of the European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, show that Turkey is constitutionally ready to join the European Union. Europe cannot keep concocting excuses.
MeMo FroM Cairo - Egypt Ponders Failed Drive for Unesco - NYTiMes.coM - 1 views
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after Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, failed in his bid to lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Egyptian newspapers and government officials presented the defeat as a sign of Western prejudice against Islam and the Arab world,
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For days after Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, failed in his bid to lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Egyptian newspapers and government officials presented the defeat as a sign of Western prejudice against Islam and the Arab world, the product of an international Jewish conspiracy.
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“America, Europe and the Jewish lobby brought down Farouk Hosni,” read a headline
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Why they hate us (II): How many muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years? | Stephen m. Walt - 4 views
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Walt skewers Friedman. Comment section makes fascinating reading, in places. Your thoughts?
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I think that there can be a parallel made here between the more broad US relations with the muslim world and Israel's relations with the palestinians. There is the same case of one side having many more civilian casualties than the other side. Although I do think that hatred can be rooted in such a circumstance, I think that the muslim world's hatred of America is far more deep rooted than just because of civilian causality numbers. The US is a representation of a forward-moving society, and a wealthy nation (or at least one point remained wealthy.) I think its just easy to hate the U.S. There is no denying the amount of casualties that the U.S. have caused in the region, but there are plenty of cases where the U.S. helped aid the middle East. I think that there is some validity in Friedmans discussion of "the Narrative."
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I think it's interesting that Walt comes down so strongly on the notion of "the narrative." While I do agree that the deaths of muslims because of American foreign policy is an important contributing factor, it also seems silly to assume that they are mutually exclusive. I think it's more likely that there is a narrative about the United States that is fed by the people that have died at the hands of American policies.
« Merde au HaMas, Merde à Israël » : les jeunes de Gaza se lachent - Blog des peuples en lutte - 0 views
Yemen and Iran: What's really going on? - 2 views
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it may be true that members of Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guard are "embedded" in Yemen. Or it may not. Until the Saudis produce the evidence they claim to possess, we only have their word for it.
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Iranian involvement in Yemen also has to be judged alongside the involvement of other players. In that regard, Saudi Arabia's meddling in Yemen, over a long period, has been – and still is – far more persistent and pervasive than that of any other country, including Iran. The recent ICG report also points out that the beleaguered Yemeni president (or perhaps ex-president now) Abd-Rabbu mansour Hadi and his allies are more dependent on Riyadh than the Houthis are on Tehran.
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in terms of fighting on the ground, Iran is not the Houthis' most important ally; former president Ali Abdullah Saleh is
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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer: Countering ExtreMisM: Jihadist Ideology Reigns SupreMe - 0 views
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By James m. Dorsey Edited remarks at India Foundation conference, Changing Contours of Global Terror, Gurugram, Haryana, 14-16 march 2018
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Al Qaeda produced the counterterrorism industry in the context of a response that was focussed on law enforcement, security and military engagement. To be sure, that has produced significant results. It has enhanced security across the globe, stopped plots before they could be executed, driven Al Qaeda into caves, and deprived the Islamic State of its territorial base. All of that, however has not solved the problem, nor has it fundamentally reduced the attraction of religiously-cloaked extremism.
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the call for a counter-narrative has produced an industry of its own. Like the terrorism industry, it has vested interests of its own: its sustainability is dependent on the continued existence of perceived real threats.
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Saudi Arabia makes friends with an old enemy - Iraq - middle East - Stripes - 0 views
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With the extremist militants driven out of Iraq, Saudi Arabia is preparing to reopen the land crossing to trade this year because of the latest conflict that's dominating the region: its proxy war with Iran. In a stark reversal of policy, the kingdom has identified Iraq as a timely ally in curbing the influence of its Shiite enemy
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Saudi Arabia has also employed other soft power tactics such as offering to build a sports stadium and government-backed broadcaster mBC recently announced a dedicated channel for Iraq. Clerics in the kingdom have been toning down their anti-Shiite rhetoric
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Saudi Arabia's aim is to prop up a government in Baghdad whose authority has been challenged by Iran-sponsored militias and bring the nation back firmly into the Arab fold
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Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at Last - The New York Times - 0 views
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On foreign policy, M.B.S. would not discuss the strange goings on with PriMe Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon coMing to Saudi Arabia and announcing his resignation, seeMingly under Saudi pressure, and now returning to Beirut and rescinding that resignation. He siMply insisted that the bottoM line of the whole affair is that Hariri, a Sunni MusliM, is not going to continue providing political cover for a Lebanese governMent that is essentially controlled by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah Militia, which is essentially controlled by Tehran.He insisted that the Saudi-backed war in YeMen, which has been a huManitarian nightMare, was tilting in the direction of the pro-Saudi legitiMate governMent there, which, he said is now in control of 85 percent of the country, but given the fact that pro-Iranian Houthi rebels, who hold the rest, launched a Missile at Riyadh airport, anything less than 100 percent is still probleMatic.
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wrench Saudi Arabia into the 21st century
Nabi Saleh is where I lost my Zionism | +972 magazine - 0 views
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the Achilles heel of the Israeli media — i.e., its willingness to report communiqués issued by the army as straight news, without any fact checking. Even though the Israeli security establishment has been caught lying on countless occasions, journalists who report for mainstream media outlets continue to accept without question the information they are given about events they neither witnessed nor verified independently
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I’ve seen soldiers grab crying children and shoving them into military vehicles, pushing aside their screaming mothers. I’ve seen soldiers grab a young woman by her arms and drag her like a sack of potatoes for several meters along an asphalt road so hot that it melted the rubber soles of my running shoes, before tossing her into a military vehicle and driving away. I’ve had my ankles singed black when a security officer looked me straight in the eyes and threw a stun grenade at my legs. Israeli army sharp-shooters regularly shoot unarmed demonstrators in Nabi Saleh with both rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition. They break into houses and drag people out, arresting them on the claim that they allowed demonstrators to hide in their garden. And then I would go back to Tel Aviv and be told by my friends that I could not have seen what I saw, because “our soldiers” do not behave that way. Soon, I had to distance myself from those friends in order to keep my own emotions in check.
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By the time I began going to Nabi Saleh, I had spent about four years reporting on what I saw in Gaza and the West Bank, and watching detachedly as my politics moved ever leftward from the liberal place in which they started, as a consequence of what I saw on the ground. But it was in Nabi Saleh that I lost the last remnants of what I would call — for lack of a word to describe my nostalgia for the idea of a state for the Jews — my Zionism. my radicalization was not only a consequence of witnessing brutal violence perpetrated right in front of my eyes, by soldiers of the army that was supposed to protect me. It was also a result of my seeing the Tamimi family endure that violence week after week, seeing their relatives injured, arrested and killed, and still not coming to the conclusion that the price of resistance is too high. They simply refuse to submit.
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What Can We Learn from the Escalating Israeli Raids in Syria? - Lawfare - 0 views
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Eyal Tsir Cohen is a visiting fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. Tsir is currently on leave froM the Israeli priMe Minister’s office, where he has served for the last 30 years in various senior positions. His career has focused on security and intelligence issues, and shaping policies and strategies on global terrorisM.
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While Israel has reportedly carried out thousands of strikes in Syria and neighboring Iraq in recent years, the frequency, intensity, and toll of these recent attacks are unprecedented.
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Israel has come to see that Iran is not forsaking its project in Syria, and further may be pursuing more sophisticated means of threatening Israel’s northern border. This week’s report that Iran is moving missiles into Iraq only reinforces this perception
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Former Senior Libyan Intelligence Officer and Bomb-maker for the muamar Qaddafi Regime Charged for The December 21, 1988 Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 | OPA | Department of Justice - 0 views
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new charges against a former Libyan intelligence operative, Abu Agela mas’ud Kheir Al-marimi, aka, “Hasan Abu Ojalya Ibrahim” (masud), for his role in building the bomb that killed 270 individuals in the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988
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The bombing of Pan Am 103 was historic in that it was, until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the largest terrorist attack on U.S. civilians in history.  It also remains the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom
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n November 1991, it led to criminal charges in both countries, charging two Libyan intelligence operatives, Abdel Baset Ali al-megrahi (megrahi) and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah (Fhimah) with their roles in the bombing.  The criminal complaint filed today charges masud with destruction of an aircraft resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 32(a)(1) and (a)(2), as well as destruction of a vehicle by means of an explosive resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i).  The charges in criminal complaints are merely allegations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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US media talks a lot about Palestinians - just without Palestinians - +972 magazine - 0 views
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many Americans’ memories of Rabin have long been colored by a relentless media narrative that deprived them of critical perspectives on his life and legacy. In fact, looking back at the Oslo years, the voices of Palestinians — the victims of Rabin’s decades-long career — rarely made it into the pages of influential U.S. publications. Had they been featured, many Americans may have had a more informed opinion about why Palestinians would oppose honoring Rabin.
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I focused on opinion pieces for two reasons. First, scholarly analysis of major U.S. outlets has already demonstrated that their news coverage is heavily shaped by pro-Israel biases. Second, opinion pieces are playing a stronger role than ever in shaping our understanding of the news. As one newspaper editor explained, “In a 24/7 news environment, many readers already know what happened; opinion pieces help them decide how to think about it.”
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I had expected to find relatively few opinion pieces by Palestinians, and I was correct. But what surprised me was how much Palestinians have been talked about in major U.S. media outlets over the decades. Editorial boards and columnists seem to have been quite consumed with talking about the Palestinians, often in condescending and even racist ways — yet they somehow did not feel the need to hear much from Palestinians themselves.
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