Links for 10.14.09 to 10.18.09
✪ Is Obama giving up on democracy in Iran? | Because Haaretz really, really cares.
✪ 'Delegitimization of Israel must be delegitimized' | Great pic on this FLC post.
✪ Al Jazeera English - Focus - Leadership 'let down' Palestinians | As`ad AbuKhalil.
✪ ANALYSIS / U.S. using Goldstone report to punish Netanyahu - Haaretz - Israel News | Ridiculous argument.
✪ Egypt: 29 years between a president and his heir | Bikya Masr | Ayman Nour on Mubarak's Egypt.
✪ Nationalism in the Gulf State | A LSE paper on GCC nationalism by Neil Partrick.
✪ In Morocco, editor imprisoned, court shutters paper - Committee to Protect Journalists | al-Michaal newspaper closed over articles on king's health. Also rumors of closing down of Le Journal, TBC.
✪ ei: EI exclusive video: Protesters shout down Ehud Olmert in Chicago | "The demonstration was mobilized last week after organizers learned of the lecture, paid for by a grant provided by Jordan's King Abdullah II."
✪ FT.com / UK - Storm over Egypt's Israeli links | On the Hala Mustafa / normalization debate.
✪ Citing Work Of Right-Wing Intern Spy, GOP Accuses Muslim Group Of Infiltrating Hill With Intern 'Spies' | TPMMuckraker | "Four House Republicans are charging that the Council on American Islamic Relations is infiltrating Capitol Hill with undercover interns, and they're basing the charge on a WND-published book that itself is based on the work of a man who posed as a Muslim to infiltrate CAIR as ... an intern!"
✪ Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran | Helena Cobban profiles Israel operative Tom Dine.
✪ Brian Whitaker's blog | The son also rises | Seif Qadhafi gets put in charge of, well, almost everything.
✪ First Egyptian School Closes For Swine Flu - Daily News | Mere de Dieu girls' school -- a stone's throw from Arabist HQ -- closed.
✪ U.S. Iran plan is a bunker-busting bomb - thestar.com | That's not very nice.
✪ 'Delegitimization of Israel must be delegitimized' | Great pic on this FLC post.
✪ Al Jazeera English - Focus - Leadership 'let down' Palestinians | As`ad AbuKhalil.
✪ ANALYSIS / U.S. using Goldstone report to punish Netanyahu - Haaretz - Israel News | Ridiculous argument.
✪ Egypt: 29 years between a president and his heir | Bikya Masr | Ayman Nour on Mubarak's Egypt.
✪ Nationalism in the Gulf State | A LSE paper on GCC nationalism by Neil Partrick.
✪ In Morocco, editor imprisoned, court shutters paper - Committee to Protect Journalists | al-Michaal newspaper closed over articles on king's health. Also rumors of closing down of Le Journal, TBC.
✪ ei: EI exclusive video: Protesters shout down Ehud Olmert in Chicago | "The demonstration was mobilized last week after organizers learned of the lecture, paid for by a grant provided by Jordan's King Abdullah II."
✪ FT.com / UK - Storm over Egypt's Israeli links | On the Hala Mustafa / normalization debate.
✪ Citing Work Of Right-Wing Intern Spy, GOP Accuses Muslim Group Of Infiltrating Hill With Intern 'Spies' | TPMMuckraker | "Four House Republicans are charging that the Council on American Islamic Relations is infiltrating Capitol Hill with undercover interns, and they're basing the charge on a WND-published book that itself is based on the work of a man who posed as a Muslim to infiltrate CAIR as ... an intern!"
✪ Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran | Helena Cobban profiles Israel operative Tom Dine.
✪ Brian Whitaker's blog | The son also rises | Seif Qadhafi gets put in charge of, well, almost everything.
✪ First Egyptian School Closes For Swine Flu - Daily News | Mere de Dieu girls' school -- a stone's throw from Arabist HQ -- closed.
✪ U.S. Iran plan is a bunker-busting bomb - thestar.com | That's not very nice.