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يوم الأربعاء العاشر من رمضان الموافق 10/9/2008
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Via Mark Curtis…
Percy Cradock, Foreign and Commonwealth Office planning staff, to Sir Denis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary, FCO, 24 July 1970
‘We start from the fact that our economic interests in the Arab world greatly outweigh those in Israel. It would be reasonable to expect that our policy should reflect this fact. It does not do so [...]

From AFP…
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak during talks with President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday voiced rare praise for Egypt’s efforts to stem weapons smuggling into the Islamist-run Gaza Strip.
Barak hailed Egyptian efforts along the porous border which “have visibly been effective,” said a statement from the Israeli defense ministry after the talks at one of [...]

Make sure you check out these two postings by Lenin…

A poster celebrating the martyr Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the spiritual founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), on the wall of a mosque in el-’Edwa, the Upper Egyptian province of el-Minya…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Israel has offered to assist Egypt in building a technologically advanced wall along its border with the Gaza strip, the Israeli press reported Monday.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited an Israeli defense source as saying that fears of another breach like the one in January, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Two Egyptian teenagers suspected of trafficking fuel and food through tunnels into the impoverished Gaza Strip were wounded in a shootout with police on Thursday, a security official said.
The two youths were spotted by a police patrol near one of 20 tunnels between Egypt and Hamas-ruled Gaza that a security official [...]

Click on the poster below to check out a campaign website…

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read a posting by Lenin…

Gordon Brown’s speech to the Knesset left me unsure whether to laugh or cry, says Sue Blackwell of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)… Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read her article in the Guardian…

The latest cartoon by Carlos Latuff, on the banning of Scottish medical relief supplies to Gaza by Mubarak’s pigs…