News and Analysis (3/15/10)

The parents of the American girl run over by an IDF bulldozer while she protested the destruction of Palestinian homes are still seeking justice:

• Amy Goodman Interviews the Parents of Rachel Corrie (Salem News)

Illegal? Unauthorized?  In any case, “it’s generally a bad idea to have freelancers running around a war zone pretending to be James Bond” — an American Government Official:

• Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants (NY Times)

Anticipating months of political negotiations in order to create alliances:

• Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki Already Wooing Allies to try to form Governing Coalition (Washington Post)

A top priority for U.S. national security interests in the Middle East: what lessons can the Obama administration learn from their attempts to overhaul the US healthcare system?

• Middle East Peace Efforts: Lessons from Healthcare Reform (LA Times)

With Egypt’s parliamentary elections months away, the authorities already have locked up hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood …

• Political Levers Lock Into Gear in Election Year (NY Times)

… but the editors of the Washington Post, no fan of El Baradei’s objections to the Bush administration’s interference in the work of the IAEA, are glad to see him “tilting at the rotting autocracy” of Egypt:

• Egypt’s Chance for Change (Washington Post)

Dismayed at propaganda “that comes from Jewish and Israeli sources,” JNews hopes to provide “reliable… information, … authoritative and expert commentary,… and deeper and more courageous analysis”:

• New Voice on the Middle East Conflict (Guardian)

Imran

Minaret of Freedom Institute Program Assistant