From Xinhua…
Bush called his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak to thank him for his efforts to stop Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.

.. should go to Isabel Kershner of the New York Times…

The Socialist students led hundreds today on Cairo University campus, protesting the Israeli assaults against Gaza, denouncing Hosni Mubarak and the Arab traitors… The students managed to take the streets but were forced back by the Central Security Forces which besieged the university…
Cairo University under police siege قوات الأمن تحاصر جامعة القاهرة from El-Badeel البديل [...]

My blog collapsed from the morning to roughly 8pm, under heavy internet traffic. It’s back now.. Please make sure you check out the updates I’ve been sending on Jaiku…

These are my links for December 30th through December 31st:

اليوم السابع | تمرد فى معسكر الأمن المركزى بـ”رمسيس” -
How We Use Twitter for Journalism - ReadWriteWeb -
Twitter / AJGaza - Gaza news on Twitter
تكنوإعلام -
الأخبار - عربي - الاحتجاجات العربية تتصاعد ومحاولات لاقتحام سفارات مصرية -
In Gaza -
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Human Rights Watch has [...]

Today Wednesday, Cairo University Socialists are mobilizing a protest in solidarity with Gaza at 11am.
At 12 noon the Socialist Alliance is mobilizing for a solidarity protest in front of the Arab League in Tahrir Sq..
At 3pm, the Muslim Brotherhood are demonstrating in front of the Press Syndicate…
Down with Israel.. Down with Mubarak.. Victory to the [...]

YouTube and Twitter are used by Israel in its propaganda warfare… and the Arabs are also fighting back…

The Times reports…

I watched Mubarak’s speech today on TV… Holy Cow! He looked like some mummy! I never saw him as pale and weak as he was today… He could hardly keep his eyes open, and just looked some wax statue…
UPDATE: A Jaiku from Nora says the same: “Have u noticed in Mubaraks speech today how his [...]

Police cracked down on the pro-Gaza protest at the Doctors’ Syndicate, rounding up a number of protestors (I still don’t have accurate figures, but they are more than 14). The police also assaulted photographers, including el-Badeel’s Ahmad Ma’arouf, confiscating his memory card after threatening to smash his camera…

[Above: A pic I took of Ahmad a [...]

The Center for Socialist Studies managed to mobilize a small caravan aid that crossed yesterday into Gaza… It’s expected on Thursday another aid caravan will take off to Palestine, but I’m awaiting confirmation, as activists are now trying to coordinate relief efforts and will be meeting today 5:30pm at HMLC…

These are my links for December 29th through December 30th:

Israeli strikes in Gaza risk political win for Hamas | csmonitor.com -
Teacher Dude’s Grill and BBQ: Social media and the Greek uprising -
Farfahinne: Obama understands Israel urge to Respond!! Fuck YOU! -
Gaza protest - a set on Flickr -
War in Gaza: no [...]

There is a demonstration taking place now in front of the Press Syndicate, which started around an hour ago… I’m told there are 2000+ protestors, largely MBs… And according to Jaikus I’m receiving the MBs are intervening and silencing anyone who’s chanting “Down with Hosni Mubarak” and are segregating the men from women protestors… FUCKING [...]

These are my links for December 28th through December 29th:

KHALED EL-SAWY: لماذا التظاهر؟ -
US soldier killed in roadside bomb in Baghdad -
ei: Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians -
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel bombs university in Gaza -
Egyptian chronicles: We are all Gaza Now -
KHALED EL-SAWY: عام نضال [...]