Links 25 March 2011

• Egypt’s First Vote by Yasmine El Rashidi | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books
• Hillary says that Moroccan autocracy is a democratic model

  Horrible woman.

• Gates realizes that there are only three authoritarian regimes in the whole Middle East
• Libye, au cœur de la galaxie des fidèles de Mouammar Kadhafi

  Qadhafi's faithful.

• Hosni Mubarak's Shadow Still Falls on Much of Egypt - NYTimes.com

  Erasing Hosni from history.

• FT.com / Columnists / Lina Saigol - Gulf’s wealthy move more capital offshore
• FT.com / Why the military is right to fret over Libya

  "Far from wanting him to find every door closed around the world, Washington and London are eager that some country should be identified that will grant him a haven: “We don’t want a cornered rat,” in the words of a British player, “we want a rat with somewhere to run to.”"

• Qatar's decision to send planes to Libya is part of a high-stakes game | The Guardian

  Qatar's strategy.

• Yemen President Saleh Nears Deal to Resign - WSJ.com

  And Gen. al-Ahmar too.

• Sudan: The SPLM in the North

  Interesting.

• What is Mohammed’s last name?

  The NYT's missing driver.

• Five years after publication of ‘The Israel Lobby,’ I’m still grateful
• Israeli Foreign Ministry sent ‘spy’ to report on Gideon Levy speech in Dublin

  Reminiscent of what Arab regimes do.

• Haredi parents marry off 13-year-old daughter as 'penance' for flirtations

  Honor crime?

• Social science and the Libyan adventure

  Walt on liberal interventionism

• Wikileaks: Feltman: "...An unrelentingly bleak evening..."

  WTF

• All-American Torture « LRB blog

  On Bradley Manning

• A wee oversight: sanctions cut rebels cash, access to arms

  Uh-oh.

• The Qaddafi I Know: The Good, the Bad, and the West’s Ugly Intervention - By Yoweri Museveni | Foreign Policy

  Fascinating and funny.

• Turkish Leaders: ".. The aim [of the air campaign] is not the liberation of the Libyan people.."
• "..Act quickly to punish Mr. Assad's behavior .."

  Congressmen want Obama to be tough on Syria. Will they say the same about Saudi?

• High Anxiety - By Toby C. Jones | Foreign Policy

  On Saudi Arabia and the popular revolts.