Links 19 March 2011

• Libya unrest: Nato military strength in the Mediterranean | World news | guardian.co.uk

  Useful map.

• Unbelievable racism, hate-talk, from PM Sharon’s son

  Sharon's son says Palestinians are wild beasts.

• Confronting Gadhafi Is Not Enough - WSJ.com

  The balls that Tony Blair has, talking about morals in foreign policy. He makes his priorities clear: "Some of those wanting change want it precisely because they regard the existing regimes as not merely too oppressive but too pro-Western, and their solutions are a long way from what would provide modern and peaceful societies."

• M. le Ministre, de quoi je me mêle?! - Lakome.com

  A Moroccan reacts to French defense of the Moroccan monarchy.

• Obama's multilateral march to war: strategic choice or rushed improvisation? - By Colum Lynch | Turtle Bay

  Does it matter?

• Le Figaro - International : La campagne libyenne de Bernard-Henri Lévy

  How BHL became France's second foreign minister and moved Sarkozy towards war with Libya. This is unreal.

• التعذيب عندهم... واحنا ضدهم | قوة العمل لمناهضة التعذيب

  Egyptian anti-torture site details army abuses.

• The NPR ‘emergency’ - The Washington Post

  Republican budget-balancing: cut $5m in NPR funding, approve $10bn per month in Afghanistan spending. All in a day's work.

• إستفتاء.مصر - الرئيسية

  Website of the Egyptian government on the constitutional referendum.

• YouTube - اخبار اليوم الرابع للثورة السورية من قناة الجزيرة

  Jazeera report on protests at the Ummayad mosque in Damascus.

• VIDEO – Protests in Syria « 3arabawy

  In Homs.

• Libya: Moammar Kadafi's harsh tactics embolden other regimes - latimes.com

  The regimes are learning too as the Arab uprisings spread.

• Unrest Poses New Challenge for Syria - WSJ.com

  At least two dead, statues of Assad attacked.

• The footage that reveals the brutal truth about Bahrain's crackdown - Middle East, World - The Independent

  Patrick Cockburn runs through a video that shows an unarmed man being executed.