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February 21, 2009

These are my links for February 21st from 14:18 to 16:22:

Free the Prisoners for Gaza – Website for the remaining Gaza solidarity prisoners
Al-Haraka Critiques the US Arabic Teaching System « –
Energy Security Challenges for Israel Following the Gaza War – A review of the geological and political difficulties Israel faces in attending to its energy security (thanks Angry Arab)
ei: Film review: "Waltz with Bashir" – "To say that Palestinians are absent in Waltz with Bashir, to say that it is a film that deals not with Palestinians but with Israelis who served in Lebanon, only barely begins to describe the violence that this film commits against Palestinians."
Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar – A handy rebuttal to the nut-job "bio-geographers" of UCLA.

These are my links for February 17th through February 21st:

Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening – USATODAY.com –
Fix-It Nation: In Tough Times, Tailors and Cobblers Thrive – TIME – Don't throw all your shoes at your nearest available statesman! Some of those still have some life in them
Mashahed, "Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel" – English translation of a short piece about Egyptian workers striking against a company that was exporting fertilizer to Israel
Right Wing Sweeps Israel – Juan Cole on the death of the two-state solution
State of the Internet: Top Technorati Searches, Feb. 9, 2009 – Juan Cole attempts to parse the top Technorati searches.
Missing Mexican island fuels mystery – "a force of nature (able to sink an island) does not take place without anyone noticing, and much less so when it is sitting in an area with more than 22 billion barrels of oil reserves."