Monthly Archives: January 2009

Abbas to Cairo

I don’t know why Abbas can­celed his visit to Europe, and urgently went to Egypt, maybe it’s con­nected to this link at Al-Kifah Al-Arabi [scroll down] saying:

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Iraq’s election between religious and tribal influence

The loy­alty of the Iraqi vot­ers accord­ing to Al-Sharq is the com­mu­nity [eth­nic, reli­gion] then the tribe. The news­pa­per uses an exam­ple say­ing that Maliki and his Dawa Party went to the tribes [and Sup­port Coun­cils] to prove his “sec­u­lar­ism”: … Con­tinue read­ing

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Nasrallah – Egypt relations reached the point of no return

The real­ity is that there is noth­ing new in Nas­ral­lah accu­sa­tionscon­tin­ued in today’s arti­cle]. Egypt in its turn mobi­lized its media to “answer” Nas­ral­lah, and this arti­cle on Al-Ahram is an exam­ple “A sus­pended resis­tance fighter”. The nature of this … Con­tinue read­ing

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boycott Abbas

Alger­ian news­pa­per El-Youm [not online, via Al-Mesryoon], revealed that Alge­ria refuses to hand over $200 mil­lion Gaza recon­struc­tion dona­tion to Egypt or Abbas. The news­pa­per also said that Alge­ria will boy­cott Gaza recon­struc­tion Cairo’s con­fer­ence because of the Israeli – U.S. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Identity of the CIA rapist in Algeria revealed

Alger­ian news­pa­per reveals the iden­tity of the Amer­i­can CIA man rapist: His name is Andrew War­ren, 41 years old [the link con­tains an image].

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Maliki’s deal with the Sadrists

Iraqi writer Fad­hil Al-Ruba’i was on AlJazeera few min­utes ago and still insist­ing that this elec­tion is part of Joe Biden’s soft strat­egy to divide Iraq into three [or many] regions [AL-Ruba’i already wrote about this before but I expect … Con­tinue read­ing

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Gaza demonstrates to thank Erdogan

Here are the images of demon­stra­tions in Gaza to thank Erdo­gan: 1 … 2 … 3 … 4 .… 5

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Silent Egypt – Turkey confrontation

Arab newspaper’s edi­to­ri­als weren’t pre­pared for Davos event of yes­ter­day, but the few I found are really infor­ma­tive. arti­cle, men­tion­ing an impor­tant point: But Erdo­gan hit the west where it hurts say­ing: Hamas had been elected demo­c­ra­t­i­cally, and the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity … Con­tinue read­ing

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Erdogan leaves Davos angry

Turk­ish Prime Min­is­ter Recep Tayyip Erdo­gan leaves Davos angry say­ing: “I will come back to Davos” after a debate with the Israeli pres­i­dent Shi­mon Peres. “Some­body” impo­litely tried to stop Erdo­gan from answer­ing Peres. Watch the video.

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Iraq’s election: An old wine in new bottles

The title taken from Al-Akhbar’s very well writ­ten report, describes the recent elec­tion sit­u­a­tion. The writer Zaid Al-Zubaidi noticed the absence of the “real” oppo­si­tion, makes the elec­tion con­fined in the same frame appeared after 2003 [occu­pa­tion], with some for­mal … Con­tinue read­ing

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