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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
President vows to defend Egyptians abroad as violence spreads across Cairo and Algiers Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ratcheted up the diplomatic tension with Algeria yesterday as football-related violence continued to spread across both countries. In a statement to parliament, he told cheering MPs that "Egypt will not be lax with those who harm the dignity of its sons". It is the president's...
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Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
n 1951 the Arab League established the Bureau for Boycotting Israel. Based in Damascus, Syria, the bureau has lost much of its authority since Egypt, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed peace treaties with Israel… Before the US-led invasion, Iraq adhered closely to the instructions of the bureau. Israeli companies, those with Israeli shareholders [...]
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
“The European Union has rejected a plan to push for recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council, saying the move was ‘premature’ … The plan, backed by the Arab League, has also been rejected by Washington, which along with the EU backs a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The impasse in negotiations [...]
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Houthi rebels in Yemen have called on the Arab League to stop the Saudis' "unjust aggression" against the Yemeni people, affirming that they have no relationship with Iran. Saudi Arabia became involved in the war with the Houthis on ... November 17, 2009, 9:44 am
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
guardian.co.uk home Palestinians call for EU to back independence • Frustration at impasse on 'two-state project' • Israel warns of retaliation over any unilateral move Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP Palestinians have formally asked the European Union to urge the UN security council to recognise a fully...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
• Frustration at impasse on 'two-state project' • Israel warns of retaliation over any unilateral move Palestinians have formally asked the European Union to urge the UN security council to recognise a fully independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to the current impasse in peace negotiations with Israel. Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, confirmed that...
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All About domains (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Saudi, UAE top gulf cyber-crime victims Saudi Arabia was ranked first and the United Arab Emirates second as the most vulnerable of the Gulf countries to fall victim to cyber crimes, such as website hacking, according to a statistics report recently published by Trend Micro. In Saudi Arabia 796,000 cases of computer system crashes instigated by hackers were recorded in the past nine months, accounting...
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The Radical Moderate (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Saudi Arabia has been fighting in Yemen for a while. They've recently blockaded the country using the Saudi navy. They've shelled villages and reports of civilian casualties have come out. Where is the UN General Assembly resolution condemning the attacks? The UN Human Right's Council's? How about the Arab League or the OIC? The EU? Human Rights Watch? Amnesty International? When's Goldstone going...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday criticized the Arab League (AL) for not boycotting his bitter rival Islamic Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip. Abbas told a group of Palestinian businessmen at his Ramallah headquarters that the AL should boycott Hamas movement "because it is the one which obstructs reaching an inter-reconciliation agreement." "There has been a previous...
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GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Well, well -- wail! News that the so nice - he be nom d'guerr'd twice! Abu Mazen/M'Moud Abbas -- the President of the West Bank and the rocket rich Strip turf (collectively called Palestine) is ready to jettison the escape pod and high tail it for his super swanky beach front villa in Q'Tar. Saw that one a mile away . Just like the happy happy fact that HAMAS couldn't get re elected as grave diggers...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Arab League chief Amr Moussa on Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider his decision not to run in the upcoming presidential election, statement said. According to the statement, Moussa called on Abbas to continue leading the Palestinian National Authority. Moussa praised the Palestinian President's decision not to continue negotiations with Israel unless it stopped building...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
By Tony Karon "....The sad truth dawning on Ramallah, now, is that there will be no salvation from Washington. Not now, possibly not ever. A sad truth, perhaps, but the kind that can set free those who recognise it. In the shocked aftermath of the 1967 war, Fatah took the lead in breaking the Palestine Liberation Organisation free of the tutelage of the Arab League, in a declaration of independence...
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P/Oed Patriot (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A ccording to an Article on World Net Daily(WND), the White House is close to making a Deal where they will support the Creation of a Palestinian State based upon Pre-1967 borders. Here is A part if the Ariticle: "according to a top Palestinian Authority official, the Obama administration has largely adopted the positions of the PA to create a Palestinian state within two years based on the pre-1967...
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Rootless Cosmopolitan (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
‘Who lost China?” was the battle cry of a witch-hunt conducted in the US State Department following the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s communists. The department’s “China hands”, critics charged, had been woefully ignorant of the dynamics at work on the ground in China after the Second World War, and undermined the US ally Chiang Kai-shek. While the purge that followed...
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
President Obama's Middle East policy is in ruins. While the US continues to press Israel for a settlement freeze (and a freeze on Jerusalem) his strategy is falling apart piece by piece. He has turned the Israeli populace against him and strengthened the hand of Prime Minister Netanyahu. At the same time he has eroded his own support among American Jews and other US friends of Israel. Which is why...