News and Analysis (10/11/11)

As thousands of Palestinian prisoners join in a hunger strike against conditions in Israeli jails, Netanyahu announces a deal has been struck with Hamas to for the release of Gilad Shalit, reportedly in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners:

Muslims join Christians in outrage against Egyptian military and media for the murder of peaceful Copt demonstrators in an apparent attempt to fuel sectarian discord; the finance minister resigns and a newscaster declares her shame at “working for state media, which, she said, ‘had proven itself to be a slave for whoever rules Egypt’””:

“Details offered by the Justice Department painted a picture of a dizzying international plot involving Mexican drug cartels, murder for hire and huge sums of money being transferred from unknown locations” in the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US:

Any colleges or university that violated has “broken the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act” to collaborate with NYPD to spy on students could lose “every single federal dollar: the research funds, the federal loans, the Pell grants,” according to Meg Penrose at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law:

As the Nahda party bolsters its appeal to moderates by accepting women who choose to remain unveiled and even the Communists are rebranding themselves to present a more Islamic image, yet  the “liberals” continue to alienate themselves from potential voters with their illiberal policy of making what is admittedly the fashion choice of minority of women a criminal offense:

As a former German Chancellor Gerhart Schroeder areues that the …

… “U.S. officials understand that Erdogan remains bitter about Israel’s May 2010 commando attack on a flotilla organized by activists in Turkey to bring aid to the Gaza Strip” but seem incapable of grasping his reasons for demanding a formal apology the killings and for an end to the inhumane blockade or for opposition to American drilling in disputed Cypriot fields:

For decades people feared to criticize Gaddafi, but now it is supporters who live in fear, yet the intensity of the resistance to the rebellion exceeds NATO’s expectations:

As “Syria rejects calls to join tribunal, grant full access to aid workers, [and] release prisoners,” its ruling “family and their entourage are now very much an urban elite, their spiritual home the wealthy Damascus suburbs of swish coffee shops and fast cars rather than the rural poverty from which they rose, and in which many Syrians now languish”:

 


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