Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Elections
June 24, 2012 16:49 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
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• Venezuela is thinking about selling its fleet of US-made F-16 fighter jets to Iran. But this may be a case of Chavez being Chavez. AP writes:
Chavez has previously warned he could share the U.S.-made F-16s with Cuba and China — and look into buying new jets from Russia or China — because he said Washington was not supplying parts for the planes as agreed.
• Worth reading from the JCPA: “The Role of Iranian Security Forces in the Syrian Bloodshed.”
• Nice roundup at Foreign Policy of what arms Russia is known to have supplied Assad.
• Syrian rebels are targeting Christians. The UK’s Sunday Times (paywall) notes disturbing incidents in several villages:
The persecution is reminiscent of brutal treatment meted out to Christians during the Iraq war, when hundreds of thousands fled after being targeted by militants in the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Coptic Christians in Egypt have also been attacked since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak last year.
In the Syrian town of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border, a warning went out from some minarets earlier this month that “Christians must leave within six days”. Only 1,000 remained after about 9,000 others fled a spate of kidnappings and murders, local Christians say.
On a related note, Asharq al-Awsat interviewed a Jesuit priest recently expelled from Syria. Father Paolo Dall’Oglio was in charge of the Deir Mar Musa monastery for 30 years.
• George Galloway‘s latest tirade won’t endear himself to the Syrian street.
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• Wikipedia is often an editorial war zone, says study picked up by MSNBC (via Slashdot). Hot-button topics bring out the worst in some editors:
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Related reading: Zionist Wikipedia Editor? So What?
• “Credit” the German left, not neo-Nazis, for helping Black September carry out the Munich massacre. The Jerusalem Post writes:
Writing in the current edition of the German Jewish newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine Wochenzeitung, Dr. Wolfgang Kraushaar sharply disputed a recent Der Spiegel article’s emphasis on the role of neo-Nazis in the attack, calling the news item “blown up” and nothing new.
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jeb stuart
5:49 pm
Jun 24, 2012
The coverage of the Egyptian elections has demonstrated how open to coercion or willing submission to the fomenters of Shariah Law the Media and the British government and some other European nations and certainly President Obama have become. The editors at the BBC can not button their pants without the British governments nod. Coverage of the Egyptian election has been horrendous, treated like a fully mature democratic election instead of a choice between two sorts of tyrannies; secret military police or religious police. When 150 missiles necessittated an Israeli response AP’s coverage was no better focusing only on the response not on the fomenters of aggression.
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Stephen
12:37 am
Jun 25, 2012
So, let me get this right: Since January 2011 more than 900 rockets have landed in Israel and Israel’s response to two rockets is now considered breaking the “cease fire”!
Please, someone, tell me when the cease fire actually was a cease fire? When Israel is attacked, Israel is expected to do the Christian thing and turn the other cheek. When Israel reacts and does what every other nation on this planet does, well, its an aggressor.
When Israel kills a terrorist, outrage is the response. Never mind the dead Israelis.
When Jews are murdered the world collectively wrings its hands and says something should have been done, yet when Jews stands up for themselves, well, how dare they!
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lawrence Kuznick
2:54 am
Jun 25, 2012
Well, here we go again with Turkey, testing the waters, so to speak, and then getting convulsive when there is a reaction. Now, they are demanding a sort of “apology” from Syria, as they did from Israel. This is like one if by land, two if by sea. Syria so far is balking, as did Israel.
But I am waiting for the explosion of popular ire from all those ‘peace’ groups in Europe and elsewhere. It won’t come, of course. Mr. Erdogan is, though, managing to get on the front pages everywhere. I suppose the sacrifice of the Turkish pilots for the edification of the prime minister is worth it.
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Brent Pudsey
3:36 am
Jun 25, 2012
As a Canadian citizen I was happy to hear that a newspaper in my capital city , the Ottawa citizen was making a stand for Israel. Larkin’s comments about becoming a Zionist are good in that as one who has understood foreign oppression, he saw the folly of the movement from his lense of experiencing the activities of the IRA.
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Lilly Tobin
6:13 am
Jun 25, 2012
It is refreshing to read Mr. Larkin’s astute observation and perception of the Palestinians’ repeated and hollow complaints. Thia whole problem would not have arisen in the first place had they peacefully accepted , as their Jewish neighbors did, the 1948 Partition plan passed by the UN. Instead , they chose belligerency and 5 Arab countries chose war with stated genocidal intent to push the Jewish people into the sea. It was only with God’s endless mercy and Providence that this little ragtime army, poorly armed and mostly untrained and unprepared was able to fend them off.
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andrew o'shea
9:17 am
Jun 25, 2012
I have just returned from a trip in Israel and am amazed how the arabs refuse to adjust their position. The amount of money available to them through oil etc and they buy guns and rockets. Israel spent their time and energy with agriculture and what joy to see the abundance of greenery and vegetation, food and water for all. When this land is returned to ‘arab’s’ they destroy it all. What has happened to a people when killing innocent people is more important than feeding the people under your care. I see now the world media and political leaders are plain liars. If they ‘cared’ about Israel or justice, they would stop selling weapons. Too much money in weapons and no profit in peace
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Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Elections | The Conservative Papers
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Jun 25, 2012
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alex parks
7:58 am
Jun 27, 2012
When will we see an election in an Arab country that returns a moderate goverment ? I note that only 50% of voters voted in the recent Egyption election
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UNESCO Gives Palestinians the Church of the Nativity | Blogs about Israel aggregation
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Jul 01, 2012
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UNESCO Gives Palestinians the Church of the Nativity | The Conservative Papers
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