Friday, October 26, 2012

Bahrain
MP denied entry to Bahrain over Israel passport stamp - Peter Stanners (The Copenhagen Post)

Egypt
Poll: Egyptians Turning toward Iran, Want Nuclear Weapons - Josh Rogin (Foreign Policy) A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran and believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons.
Columnist In Egyptian Daily Al-Ahram Says MEMRI TV Clip Embarrassed President Mursi (MEMRI)

Iraq

Israel
My Country Is Under Attack. Do You Care? - Arsen Ostrovsky (Huffington Post-Canada) 
 
Jordan
Jordan's Next Leader? With Help from the U.S. Department of State -
Mudar Zahran (Gatestone Institute)

Lebanon

Hizbullah's Naked Aggression Strips Away Resistance Facade - Hussain Abdul Hussain (National-Abu Dhabi)

Sudan
Report: Bombed Arms Factory Belongs to Iran's Revolutionary Guard - Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff (Ha'aretz)

United States
The Islamic Society of North America:  Active, Influential and Rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood - Erin Dwyer and Eric Rozenman (CAMERA) The Islamic Society of North America describes itself as the “largest mainstream Muslim community-based organization” in the United States. But a Special Report by CAMERA highlights the ISNA’s origin as a satellite of the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood and the society’s continuing radical connections.
U.S. May Soon Become World's Top Oil Producer - Jonathan Fahey (AP)

Friday, October 19, 2012

Egypt
The First Hundred Days of Brother Morsi - Zvi Mazel (Jerusalem Post)
Muslim Brotherhood's Lies Reach Ridiculous New Depth  (IPT News) 

Egypt: Sinai Jihadists Planning Attack on Israel - Yousri Mohamed (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)
Arab Lawyers Union Honors Palestinian Suicide Bomber - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)

Germany
Defending Islam, With Violence: Trial Of Salafist Man Rivets Germany -
Annette Ramelsberger (SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG/Worldcrunch)

Israel

Telling Israel Like It Is - in Arabic - Philippe Assouline (Times of Israel)

Jordan

Former Jordanian Crown Prince: The West Bank Is Part of Jordan (MEMRI)

Misc
How the Arab Spring's Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aaron Zelin (Atlantic) It's right to be enthusiastic about the democratic changes that the protests have brought about, but then, not all the political actors empowered by those changes are equally benign. The continued potential for danger is real.
Jordanian teachers in UN schools for Palestinian refugees say they’ll refuse to teach the Holocaust - Elhanan Miller (Times of Israel)
“Teaching UNRWA students about the so-called ‘Holocaust’ as part of human rights harms the Palestinian cause… and changes the students’ views regarding their main enemy, namely the Israeli occupation.”

Pakistan
Al Qaeda weighs in on the Malala shooting
- Bill Roggio (The Long War Journal)
The Rape and Murder of Pakistan's Christian Children -
Raymond Ibrahim (IPT News)

Palestinians

Abbas on Facebook: Israel Is Our Occupied Land - Eli Bardenstein (Maariv-Hebrew)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Textbooks Incite Hate, Say Leaders in American Publishing - Robert L. Bernstein, Harold Evens, Larry Kirshbaum, Adam Bellow, Larry Hughes, Andre Shiffrin, and Jonathan Karp (Daily Beast)

Sweden

Israel Asks UN to Block Ship Headed for Gaza (AFP)

United States
At Metro-North Railway, New Map, More Distortions
(CAMERA)

Friday, October 12, 2012

Egypt
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood chief urges Jihad for Jerusalem - (Al Arabiya with AFP)

Haiti
Islam's inroads in land of Voodoo and Christianity -
Trenton Daniel (Yahoo News)

Israel

The Arab Spring and the Israeli Enemy - Abdulateef Al-Mulhim (Arab News-Saudi Arabia)

Lebanon
Hezbollah Official Flees to Israel with Embezzled Millions
- Yori Yanover (The Jewish Press)
Did Hezbollah’s Chief Financial Officer Defect to Israel?
- Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting)
 

Palestinians: Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Authority (PA), etc. 
Settlers "interested in making peace" - positive report in official PA daily; Palestinian artist acknowledges Jewish historical period in Jerusalem on PA TV - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) PA media publishes rare positive statements and report on Israelis and Jews!
Palestinians in Gaza Fire Dozens of Rockets and Mortars at Israeli Communities - Ilana Curiel (Ynet News) 

Former PA Minister Asfour Boasts: Many Israelis Killed Since PA Established (MEMRI/Youtube) This minister uses the deaths of Israelis as an example of how the PA is better at governance than Hamas

Russia
Putin Confidant: Russian weapons deliveries to Syria legitimate -
(Spiegel/IMRA)

Saudi Arabia

Flying home this week, I met an immunologist who stated that his greatest concern is betacoronavirus 2C (a new version of SARS) that has begun in Saudi Arabia. Note: the hajj occurs this year from October 17 to November 12.
The return of a killer? - Hazel Parry (China Daily)
WHO issues guidance on new virus, gears up for haj - Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters)
Virus related to SARS kills Saudi Arabian man - Maria Cheng (The Vancouver Sun)

Tunisia
Tunisian Children Recite Al-Qaeda Song Extolling 9/11: 'Our Terror Is Blessed'
(MEMRI)

United States

With election day fast approaching, you should know that Jerrold Nadler (NY Member of Congress- Democrat) recently published an article in Haaretz: Recognize Jews as refugees from Arab Countries; and that the World Jewish Congress recently quoted Israeli Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, as stating: I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing, in regard to our security, more than anything that I can remember in the past." in response to President Obama signing the Enhanced Security Cooperation Act. Also, Israel on Trial in New York in the Wall Street Journal mentions that Cynthia McKinney (GA Member of Congress) is a member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (along with Roger Waters and Alice Walker) which is not just against Israeli policies but also against the existence of the Jewish state. 

Al-Marayati's Dangerous "Diplomatic" Ideas - (IPT News)
Jewish Groups Criticize Christian Leaders' Call to Reevaluate Military Aid to Israel (JTA)
LA Times Misleads About Hamas in Bank Hacking Story
(CAMERA)

Thursday, October 4, 2012


Afghanistan
I think we have another name for what Al Arabiya is referring to as social gaffes: Brotherhood Bloopers: Gaffes of Egypt's new political elite go global (Al Arabiya)

Germany
German Investigators Uncover Illegal Exports of Nuclear Technology for Iran - Cathrin Gilbert, Holger Stark and Andreas Ulrich (Der Spiegel-Germany)

Iran

Jordanian Tribe Condemns Appointment of its Member as Ambassador to Israel - Roi Kais (Ynet News)

Palestinians: PA, Hamas, etc.
In a recent interview on Charlie Rose, Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister of Russia, indicated that resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict might have a positive affect on conflicts in the region, despite agreeing that the current Arab Spring/Autumn has nothing to do with it. Claims that peace is possible are hard for me to figure. Just look at the palwatch.org website for details.
Senior Palestinian Authority-Fatah leaders, including Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (who is often described as a "moderate"), consistently promote the destruction of Israel and present the aspiration to die for "Palestine" as a goal for children.
The PA's Jerusalem libel continues: Organizations and officials claim Israel plans to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque All deny Jerusalem's history, referring to "alleged Temple" - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

US
U.S. Students Give Ahmadinejad a Standing Ovation - Josh Lipowsky (JTA)
MTA to Only Run Ads that Muslims Will Not Vandalize - Daniel Greenfield (Frontpagemag.com) 
If Muslims declare that they will react violently to something, that thing can now be treated as inciting and provoking violence. Muslim violence, once again, becomes the determinant of what can and cannot be said in this country.