Month: July 2012
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News and Analysis (7/31/12)
Franklin Lamb explains why the Lebanese people, no less than the Americans, have a right to keep and bear arms, which in Hezbollah’s case “give Israel pause before its likely 6th major aggression against Lebanon” or serves as the pretext for Israeli aggression: Hypocrisy over Hezbollah Arms (Counterpunch) The man who ” is considered the CIA’s…
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News and Analysis (7/29/12)
“Hundreds of Palestinians are to be displaced despite evidence that the villages have existed since 1830…. The IDF will allow the displaced Palestinians to continue farming the abandoned land and tending cattle on weekends and holidays, when there is no military training”: Israel Orders Demolition of 8 Palestinian Villages for IDF Training Sites (Reuters) “In an…
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News and Analysis (7/27/12)
A gang of 62 including “Karl Rove, J. Paul Bremer, Fouad Ajami, Doug Feith, Danielle Pletka, and Michael Ledeen” beat the drums to turn Syria into the next Iraq … From the People Who Brought You the Iraq War… (Christian Science Monitor) … but even they should understand we don;t need another Ahmed Chalabi: Manaf…
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News and Analysis (7/25/12)
“A nearly five-year legal saga will conclude Thursday for Falls Church resident Jamal Abusamhadaneh when he takes the oath of citizenship at a federal courthouse, after a federal judge ruled that immigration authorities wrongly drew sinister conclusions about aspects of his Muslim faith”: Judge Overrules Immigration Authorities, Orders Va. Muslim Be Naturalized (Washington Post) “How…
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Israeli Suicides Evoke the Memory of the Tunisian Ignition of the Arab Spring
[I was interviewed by Fars News Agency today on the recent spate of suicides in Israel] Q. There have been five suicides by burning in Israel recently, one of whom was a medical doctor. What brought about this chain of events? A. I am struck by the way the suicides in Israel evoke the memory…
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The Fall of the Assad Regime: Imminent or Just Inevitable?
[I was interviewed today by the Fars News Agency on Western predictions of the imminent fall of the Assad Regime in Syria.] Q. The West claims that the rebels will soon announce victory over the Assad regime. What is your take? A. The Assad family is probably near the end of its reign in Syria.…
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News and Analysis (7/23/12)
“With Turkey mulling further curbs on already limited press freedom, … Twitter is emerging as a powerful tool to bypass – and discredit – the country’s muzzled news outlets “: Turks Turn to Twitter as Erdogan Muzzles Traditional Media (Christian Science Monitor) “Neither Reuters, nor New York Times, nor Washington Post, nor Fox News nor…
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News and Analysis (7/21/12)
An agent of the Syrian government spying on Syrian dissidents in the U.S. get off with a 18 month sentence while prosecutors recommend 17 years for that the apparently mentally unstable target of anFBI sting operation reported to have “stood in the road not moving and appeared to have wet his pants”: Syrian Agent Working…
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News and Analysis (7/19/12)
“We can look to the people in the middle or far east or in the middle of Africa saying to them ‘America is the role model. Try to learn from us in America’” — Imam Ossama Bahlou Tennessee Mosque Can Open; Imam Says America Is Better For That (NPR) The challenges facing the liberal winners…
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News and Analysis (7/15/12)
The Cassation Court dealt a legal blow to President Mohamed Morsy’s reinstatement of the People’s Assembly on “Saturday, after the court [unanimously] ruled it did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the case, plunging the embattled body of parliament into murkier political waters”: Cassation Court Further Complicates Fate of People’s Assembly (Egypt Daily News)…
