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)