1) The Middle East and Boston
What have been the reactions in the Middle East to the Boston Marathon?
Jordanian Salafists, unsurprisingly, endorsed the terror.
“American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted...
1) Egyptian plagues
Last week Zvi Mazel wrote in the Jerusalem Post (h/t Leslie Eastman)
In a remarkable and enduring show of unity, non-Islamic opposition parties under the banner of the National Salvation Front are boycotting the regime...
1) The language of concessions
The Washington Post reports Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks:
Kerry first visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has resisted new talks for most of the past four years. His government had sought to file a complaint against Israel with the...
Comedian Bassem Youssef has been called Egypt’s Jon Stewart.
While Stewart doesn’t always endear himself to those he aims his political satire at, there aren’t many who would seek to put him in jail for his jokes.
Yet as the world embarks on the first days of 2013,...
It’s time for the person most consistently wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood to admit that just about everything he said about the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s Arab Spring was wrong, including:
Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that...
When I announced that The award for the person most consistently wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood goes to … Roger Cohen of The NY Times, it was suggested that...
Roger Cohen of The NY Times famously told us in February 2011 (emphasis mine):
Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and Egypt’s Facebook-adept youth are not lining up...
I’m going to do this the way I did the U.S. presidential election. Going with my gut.
I’m “betting” on (but not rooting for) the Islamists.
Unlike the presidential election, I will be right.
‘Deadly’ clashes at Egypt presidential palace:
Supporters of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi attacked oppositi...
Don’t let the recent anti-government protests fool you.
The Islamists still are able to turn out large crowds in the New Egypt, as happened today in Cair0 where hundreds of thousands (how many hundreds varies from news report to news report) turned out in support...
Roger Cohen was among the worst of the delusional dreamers about the nature of the Islamist uprising in Egypt.
I frequently have quoted this prediction by Cohen on February 3, 2011:
Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that...
The Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt already had brought the military to heel.
Now he is discarding the judiciary:
With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets here over the slow pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued a sweeping decree on Thursday night, granting himself...
More on the inconvenient history of refugees in the Middle East.
From the Times of Israel, Egyptian authorities reportedly seize 1.7 million documents proving Jewish ownership of assets in Cairo:
Egyptian authorities confiscated some 1.7 million documents reportedly proving Jewish ownership of land and assets in Cairo. The documents were reportedly about to...
If there ever were a doubt, no matter how small, that the mainstream media is deeply in bed with the Obama campaign, the reaction to the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and several other Americans should put such doubt to rest.
Beginning early this morning, when news was just breaking,...
Via Al Ahram English:
Egyptian protesters on Tuesday took down the American flag from the walls of the US embassy in Cairo during a thousands-strong demonstration held to protest a short film produced by US based Coptic-Christians that critics say demeans Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.
A number of protesters managed to climb...
