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Monday, June 08, 2009
The "magic key"
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From the Saudi Gazette: King Abdullah told US President Barack Obama during last week’s meeting that Arab patience was “running out” and tha...
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Egypt bans marriage to Israelis
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President Obama said in his speech in Egypt that "Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Was he aware of this when he spoke t...
PalArab woman facing death for "collaboration"
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From Ma'an : A Palestinian woman is currently on trial on charges of collaborating with Israel, court officials told AP on Sunday. The w...
The elephants are still in the room
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In January 2008, I wrote a post called " Ignoring elephants " that listed ten major issues that those who are hellbent on a "...
Interesting Photoshop at Palestine Today
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I just saw this picture illustrating an Arabic story in Palestine Today about the "peace process." At least some Palestinian Arab...
Friday, June 05, 2009
Saudis confiscate, destroy women's camera phones
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From the Saudi Gazette : Women teachers and schoolgirls in Al-Ahsa were taken aback by a surprise inspection tour of their schools and the c...
Rule 5 Sunday (early edition): A Lebanese hookah
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(Rule 5 Sunday is my occasional attempt to gratuitously show pictures of attractive women, a la Rule 5 of The Other McCain, while still tryi...
They just don't get it
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From the Lebanon Daily Star : US Central Command Chief General David Petraeus told Al-Hayat newspaper in comments published on Monday that t...
Obama's deceptive Muslim advisor
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The Arabic press is noting that one of the people who worked on Obama's Cairo speech is Dalia Mogahed, an American Muslim advisor of Oba...
Thursday, June 04, 2009
NYT repeats an Egyptian journalist's lie
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The New York Times surveys reactions to Obama's speech and quotes an Egyptian journalist's blog: The US President emphasized the h...
More Gaza culture, kids' edition
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At the very same place as yesterday's Islamic Jihad Arts Festival came the end-of-year ceremonies for the Dar al-Huda School. Here is ...
Some reactions to the speech from Commentary
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Commentary has some nice articles. Jonathan Tobin : Speaking of the Arab-Israeli conflict, he says: “If we see this conflict only from one s...
Carter acting as Obama emissary to Hamas?
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It doesn't sound likely, but there are Palestinian Arabic reports that Jimmy Carter's upcoming visit to Gaza in the middle of June ...
2 Hamas men killed in today's infighting
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Besides the PA policeman killed by Hamas this morning , the PA has killed two of the three Hamas men holed up in a Qalqiliya building: A da...
Quick notes on Obama's speech
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No time for a full dissection but here are some troubling parts : More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and...
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