Jan 30 2011

View from the castle

The Egyptian masses won’t play ally to Israel

By Gideon Levy, published 01:55 30.01.11 Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including our top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that…  [more]

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Jan 29 2011

Isolated

Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast

By Aluf Benn, published 13:01 29.01.11 … The fading power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government leaves Israel in a state of strategic distress. Without Mubarak, Israel is…  [more]

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Jan 29 2011

Sic semper tyrannis

Arab states: a quagmire of tyranny

By Soumaya Ghannoushi, Friday 28 January 2011 23.00 GMT … We are witnessing the breakdown of the Arab state after decades of failure and mounting crises. The Arab political establishment has never looked…  [more]

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Jan 29 2011

The end begins

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A people defies its dictator, and a nation’s future is in the balance

By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 29 January 2011 … It might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands…  [more]

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Jan 22 2011

Back to the future?

Walid Jumblatt: Lebanon’s kingmaker

By Lamis Andoni Last Modified: 22 Jan 2011 15:10 GMT +++ Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March…  [more]

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Jan 17 2011

Good vibrations

Mona Eltahawy, in the Guardian:  Tunisia: the first Arab revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/16/tunisia-first-arab-revolution-ben-ali Also in the Guardian:  Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/17/tunisia-jasmine-revolution-editorial Lamis Andoni, in Al Jazeera:  To the tyrants of the Arab world http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011115135046129936.html Note that…  [more]

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Jan 17 2011

Preaching to the choir

This is the excellent post-Christmas sermon, titled “Eight Days Later” (taken from Luke 2: 21-40), that Reverend Rich Lang preached on Sunday, December 26, 2010, to his Trinity United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. – Monsieur d’Nalgar Have you ever…  [more]

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