Links for June 15-20 2010

By Flickr user Marek Wykowski

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• POMED Notes: “Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Morocco”

  Depressingly, Morocco only criticized when Christian missionaries are concerned.

• Poll: Most Palestinians want peace with Israel - Haaretz

  "Fafo poll conducted in West Bank and Gaza finds that 89% Palestinians support PA legislative elections this year, 84 % believe Fatah will win."

• Israel bars German minister from Gaza - Haaretz

  Germany should end its aid to Israel now.

• BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL

  Great history and footage from Curtis as usual.

• Cocaine and west Africa « The Moor Next Door

  Great post and read the comments too.

• Latest German business scam might involve Egyptians | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt

  More details on corruption scandal.

• Turkey’s Gain Is Iran’s Loss

  "Washington actually stands to gain indirectly if a newly muscular Turkey can adopt a leadership role in the Sunni Arab world, which has been eagerly looking for a better advocate of its causes than Shiite, authoritarian Iran or the inept and flaccid Arab regimes of the Persian Gulf."

• Netanyahu's Achievement - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  "one reason the Muslim world has lost confidence in Obama is because they have every reason to"

• Popular fim holds mirror to Egyptian society, for better and worse - The National

  Review of "Asal Esweid"

• Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Would Hamas lift the siege?

  Abdel Moneim Said says Hamas nixed PA guards at border - dubious.

• Egypt, the next global style capital? - CNN.com

  Er... no.

• Saudi King coming to Washington - Laura Rozen

  The comments on this post are crazy.

• The hollow Arab core | The Middle East Channel

  Marc Lynch rebuts Elliott Abrams - and perhaps overstates Saudi Arabia's feebleness.

• Jerome Slater: On the US and Israel: The Education of Peter Beinart: Two Cheers

  This is a good blog to follow on the Israel lobby.

• Erdogan is not the bogeyman - Haaretz

  Hugh Pope.

• The NDP's vote inflation problem

  Economics of vote-buying.

• Afghanistan: Graveyard of Assumptions? (Updated) | Center for a New American Security

  Exum on Cordesman and Afghanistan. Good series of reflections.

• George Orwell, Call Your Office

  Bibi says one thing in English and another in Hebrew.

• Overview of Syrian-US Relations

  of Josh Landis.

• Quds Arabi on the new balance of power in the region

  Noe makes very good arguments here about empty triumphalism.

• Interview with Essam al-Arian, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau

  Some good stuff here.

• Undefined

  Critical review of Anthony Julius' book on anti-Semitism, where he labels anti-Zionists as "fellow travelers" and says two-state solution is, ultimately, anti-Semitic.

• Fairfax man returning from Yemen stranded in Cairo after landing on no-fly list

  What the hell?

• AFP: Study highlights Egypt's 'invisible' child workers

  Children as live-in domestic workers in Egypt.

• Uri Saguy tells all, ctd: Provides an insider’s account of Barak’s “missed opportunity” with Syria in 2000 « Coteret

  On the 2000 Israel-Syria talks.

• DutchNews.nl - Opinion: Wilders and the US Israel lobby

  Wilders hearts Israel.

• Yossi Sarid / The great Haredi rebellion is raging on several fronts - Haaretz

  Theocracy looms in Israel.

• Elia Suleiman: stories my father told me | The Guardian

  Review of Suleiman's film "The Time That Remains"

• "Me esperaban como a un redentor. Pero yo solo no puedo cambiar Egipto" · ELPAÍS.com

  El Pais interview with ElBaradei.

• Travels with George: Patton does Cairo - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense

  General Patton reports that the Egyptian capital as of December 1943 is "really a disgusting place. ... The Egyptian peasant, who abounds in large numbers, is distinctly lower than the Sicilian whom up until that time I considered the bottom of the human curve."