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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bridge Over the Wadi]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-07-28T02:23:46Z</updated>
		<published>2009-07-28T02:23:46Z</published>
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		<content type="html" xml:base="http://albsayed.org/?p=370"><![CDATA[<p>Watch <a href="http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/bridgeoverwadi.html">This</a>.</p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Links for February 9th through February 19th]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-02-21T06:19:20Z</updated>
		<published>2009-02-21T06:19:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Links" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="arabs" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Egypt" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="obama" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Palestine" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="system:filetype:pdf" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="system:media:document" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="United States" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="warongaza" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Delicious links for February 9th from 12:08 to 12:08</p>]]></summary>
		<content type="html" xml:base="http://albsayed.org/?p=343"><![CDATA[<p>Delicious links for February 9th through February 19th:</p>
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<li><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article5569107.ece">The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons</a> - &quot;The Arabs gave Europeans their ideological and intellectual identity - indeed, Lyons suggests, &ldquo;the West&rdquo; itself is a Muslim invention. &quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/111/dun021209.pdf">Gaza After the War: Egypt&#039;s Equities and Limitations</a> - Congressional testimony about Egypt&#039;s role in the Gaza war at last week&#039;s House Subcommittee hearing on the Gaza war.
<p> &quot;The aftermath of the Gaza crisis affords some opportunities for the United States and Egypt to strengthen ties, which have been strained in recent years due to disagreements over U.S. actions in the Middle East as well as human and civil rights violations in Egypt.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/02/11/porter_fife/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/politics/war_room">Breaking news: Barack Obama, Soviet mole - Salon.com</a> - At least he&#039;s not a Muslim&#8230;or wait, maybe he&#039;s a Muslim Soviet Mole?</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/opinion/08aswany.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion">NYT Op-Ed - Why the Muslim World Can&rsquo;t Hear Obama - Alaa Aswany</a> - &quot;Here in Egypt, we don&rsquo;t have previous or future presidents, only the present head of state who seized power through sham elections and keeps it by force, and who will probably remain in power until the end of his days.&quot;</li>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Links for February 9th]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-02-10T01:40:19Z</updated>
		<published>2009-02-09T17:00:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Links" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Egypt" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Egyptians" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Israel" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="Palestine" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="uspolitics" /><category scheme="http://albsayed.org" term="web2.0" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Delicious links for February 9th from 11:33 to 11:51</p>]]></summary>
		<content type="html" xml:base="http://albsayed.org/?p=342"><![CDATA[<p>Delicious links for February 9th:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZVeCCqeal_3wIMWg9dtyVUGIvogD967G5480">AP: Egyptian women, some men, fight sexual harassment</a> - 3amar ya masr: &quot;I was standing in a crowded Metro (train) and he grabbed my butt. I turned around, and he was smiling. I pushed him and started crying. Nobody did anything. I felt alone and I was scared,&quot; said 16-year-old Hadeer Amr Ibrahim.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/08/1002849/op-ed-time-for-israel-advocacy-20">Op-Ed: Time for Israel Advocacy 2.0</a> - &quot;On Google Earth, sophisticated Palestinian 2.0 advocates have tagged many Israeli towns and cities with their Arabic names.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020801708.html?wprss=rss_opinions">Jackson Diehl - A Promise of War</a> - &quot;After Netanyahu&#39;s first meeting with President Bill Clinton, Ross wrote, &quot;Clinton observed: &#39;He thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires.&#39; &quot; &quot;</li>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[links for 2009-01-29]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-01-30T05:13:29Z</updated>
		<published>2009-01-30T03:04:23Z</published>
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Turkish PM storms off in Gaza row
&#34;Mr Erdogan clashed with Shimon Peres in a discussion on the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, telling him: &#039;You are killing people.&#039; &#34;
(tags: israel warongaza palestine turkey)


John Esposito: Obama Must Transcend Israeli/Palestinian Divisions
&#34;The Obama administration will have to transcend America&#039;s policy of &#34;Israeli Exceptionalism,&#34; privileging Israeli interests. A [...]]]></summary>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7859417.stm">Turkish PM storms off in Gaza row</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">&quot;Mr Erdogan clashed with Shimon Peres in a discussion on the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, telling him: &#039;You are killing people.&#039; &quot;</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/israel">israel</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/warongaza">warongaza</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/palestine">palestine</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/turkey">turkey</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_esposito/2009/01/obama_must_transcend_israelipa.html">John Esposito: Obama Must Transcend Israeli/Palestinian Divisions</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">&quot;The Obama administration will have to transcend America&#039;s policy of &quot;Israeli Exceptionalism,&quot; privileging Israeli interests. A more even-handed policy would require that Israel as well as HAMAS and the Palestinians be held to the same standards to respect and comply with international law and U.N. resolutions. A more balanced and credible approach will begin to restore America&#039;s image in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Obama will also have to avoid a legacy of political engineering (a preference for putting in and or supporting our guy to elections) that predates George W. Bush but was also adopted by his administration in countries like Iraq and backfired in Palestine.&quot;</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/israel">israel</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/palestine">palestine</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/obama">obama</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/us">us</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://change.gov/open_government/entry/jewish_organizational_leaders_meeting/">Jewish organizational leaders meeting with Obama</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Meeting between then President-Elect Obama and Jewish leaders with any documentation of what was discussed conspicuously missing.  Only a list of names are present on the page, while most other meetings on the site mention what was discussed and include some sort of documentation.</div>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[links for 2009-01-27]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-01-30T05:15:07Z</updated>
		<published>2009-01-28T03:08:51Z</published>
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International Writers and Scholars Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel &#124; The Progressive
&#34;We reject as false Israel&#039;s characterization of its military attacks on Gaza as retaliation. Israel&#039;s latest assault on Gaza is part of its longtime racist jurisprudence against its indigenous Palestinian population, during which the Israeli state has systematically dispossessed, starved, tortured, and economically exploited [...]]]></summary>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx012709.html">International Writers and Scholars Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel | The Progressive</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">&quot;We reject as false Israel&#039;s characterization of its military attacks on Gaza as retaliation. Israel&#039;s latest assault on Gaza is part of its longtime racist jurisprudence against its indigenous Palestinian population, during which the Israeli state has systematically dispossessed, starved, tortured, and economically exploited the Palestinian people. &quot;</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/27/65087.html#004">Obama interview with Al Arabiya</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Full transcript of Obama&#039;s interview with Al Arabiya. If he wanted to reach most Arab viewers, he should&#039;ve gone with AlJazeera.</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/obama">obama</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/media">media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/arabs">arabs</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/albsayed/arabmedia">arabmedia</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.whoprofits.org/">Who Profits from the Occupation?</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Website tracking who profits from Israeli occupation</div>
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