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What really matters in Egypt…
“Members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc focussed [sic] all their attention to national security issues and vital issues of the nation, such as the cause of Palestine, the issue of...
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The broken Egypt ignored by the media
On his blog “Felix Arabia”, Sultan Al Qassemi has posted some utterly depressing observations on life in post-revolutionary Cairo – the kind of life the majority of Egyptians live away from media crews...
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Tweeting the century-old Al-Aqsa libel
Friday night, I discovered that on his Electronic Intifada blog, Ali Abunimah had put up a post claiming that Likud leaders were planning to go to Al-Aqsa early Sunday morning and that they were...
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Quote of the day
“The country’s military rulers would have Egyptians believe that ongoing protests are the work of “foreign agents”, “hidden hands”, and other mysterious third parties bent on driving a wedge between...
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Oy – even the Huffington Post…
Well, you’ve probably heard about the far-reaching powers of the “Israel Lobby”, and you might even have heard the rumors about Jews/Zionists/neo-cons controlling the media. But rumors are one thing –...
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Al Jazeera unleashes an ‘orgy of conspiratorial theorizing’
In a brilliantly titled – “Arafatuous” – and scathing commentary on Al Jazeera’s recent attempt to revive old conspiracy theories about Yassir Arafat’s death in late 2004, Hussein Ibish notes that the...
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Bad taste at the Guardian: Coleslaw with a pinch of Polonium
Under the memorable headline “Making Cole-slaw of history,” Martin Kramer documented some years ago just how hilarious it is that Juan Cole calls his blog “Informed Comment” (and for “Cole-slaw”-fans,...
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Quote of the day
“One needs to look no further than the Hamas constitution to see the protocols of the Elders of Zion baked into the text verbatim. Egyptian TV shows profligate conspiracy theories thick with vast webs...
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Free Gaza tweets for terror and a world without Zionism
The still ongoing controversy about Free Gaza’s propagation of antisemitic material has revealed the for me somewhat surprising fact that apparently quite a few of the group’s supporters seem to...
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Quote of the day
“The reality is that insane anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are the mother’s milk of political analysis in Egypt and in much of the rest of the Middle East. The emotional, visceral reaction against...
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