Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
Friday, March 13th, 2009
These are my links for March 9th through March 13th:
Tags: 'merica, AUC, CIA, Egypt, Gaza, humor, NDP, Obama, Palestine, Rizk, security, theEconomy, white_man's_burden, بلطجية, صمود
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
These are my links for March 4th through March 8th:
- March 3 1979 in Iran: Stop the Bomb – “Already in 1978 the Iranian woman, Atoussa H., wrote to Michel Foucault, a fan of Khomeini: ‘It seems that for the leftist movement in the West, which lacks humanism, Islam is desirable… for other peoples.’” Annotated link
- Police Officer Who Shoved a Bicyclist Is Off the Job – NYTimes.com -
- On the Greek Riots › My Kuneva – A poetic expression of the roots of class rage
- the veil of normalization « tabulagaza – “I realized today that i too had forgotten Gaza. In these past days in the elation of freedom i forgot why i had marched, i forgot why i am- to live for the other. That other is still as is, kept from life and the gatekeeper retains her position at the gate and the world looks on.” Annotated link
- For many, doomed ferry symbolizes Egypt’s corruption – Los Angeles Times – “The ferry case is a grim glimpse into Egypt’s starkly different worlds: one of migrants who work in Saudi Arabia and return home on rickety boats with money for their families, the other of elusive millionaires and billionaires with ties to the judicial system and ruling National Democratic Party, which sit atop a nation racked by inflation, labor unrest and poor healthcare and education.” Annotated link
Tags: activism, bikes, blockade, Critical_Mass, detainees, Egypt, feminism, ferry, Gaza, Greece, Iran, Khomeini, Konstantina_Kuneva, labor, Mamdouh_Ismail, NDP, NYC, police, Rizk, security, Talat_Mustafa, فساد
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
These are my links for March 1st through March 2nd:
- Israel/Gaza: Donors Should Press Israel to End Blockade | Human Rights Watch – In the weeks since heavy fighting ceased on January 18, Israel has arbitrarily refused entry to items like chickpeas, macaroni, wheat flour, notebooks for students, freezer appliances, generators and water pumps, and cooking gas, OCHA said. Annotated link
- Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? (Part II/II) – Second part, with a greater focus on the comparisons with the case of India. Annotated link
- Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? (Part I/II) – A great piece analyzing armed vs. non-violent struggle in Palestine, using the case of India and Ghandi’s satygraha as a point of comparison/contrast. The piece is more focused than I would like on national liberation rather than liberation writ large, but it is instructive nevertheless. Annotated link
- About Crabgrass – All About Crabgrass – Groups – riseup.net – This is a great tool for groups of people trying to collaborate on social justice projects in cases where face-to-face meetings can be difficult to arrange. Please sign up and get in touch. Annotated link
- EGYPT: New curbs on Internet cafe users | Menassat – Apparently you have to have a cell phone to use the internet in Egypt
- وضع جنسي – ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة – An Arabic Wikipedia article on sexual positions
- ei: Israel lurches into fascism -
- Michael Hudson: The Language of Looting – Michael Hudson harkens back to classical liberal economics to unpack current usage of words like “nationalize” and “socialize”.
- Mustafa Barghouthi: The Return of Benjamin Netanyahu – “Furthermore, it is not only the settlements which constitute the occupation. By themselves, the settlers consume only 3% of the West Bank
- Bloomberg.com: Arsonists Torch Berlin Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woe – “While youths in Athens protest by throwing Molotov cocktails, in Paris by toppling barricades, and in Budapest by hurling eggs at politicians, protesters in Berlin rage at their economic plight by targeting the most expensive cars—symbols of German wealth and power” (Thanks Angry Arab)
- Petition on Tuition: AUC Students Plan Strike – These are some ambitious demands
Tags: activism, Arabic, armed_struggle, arson, AUC, Barghouti, blockade, cars, Crabgrass, Egypt, Gaza, India, internet, Israel, national_liberation, Netanyahu, non-violence, no_tag, Palestine, satyagraha, security, settlements, sex, SocialNetworking, students, surveillance, theDepression, theEconomy, WestBank, Wikipedia
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
These are my links for February 25th through February 27th:
Tags: Cairo, carbon, Egypt, EmergencyLaw, energy, environment, Gaza, geography, humor, Israel, linguistics, maps, MiddleEast, Mubarak, NOLA, Palestine, pollution, protests, sprawl, theEconomy, traffic, urbanStudies, violence, war, Zionism, إنتفاضة, تضامن
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
These are my links for February 23rd from 12:22 to 13:45:
- Reform in Saudi Arabia | Tiptoeing towards reform | The Economist – The Economist on changes afoot in the kingdom of the two holy shrines, and an Ikea outlet (thanks to Angry Arab for the jab)
- Faculty shortages leads to registration nightmares | AUC Caravan – AUC spends all this money to move out to the desert, ostensibly so that it will have more space for an expanding student body, but now it has no money to pay enough teachers to instruct the students. That's AUC for you.
- Janitors dine on litter, while thousands for student free food went unused | AUC Caravan – The AUC Caravan keeps up its solid reporting
- Khan al-Khalili: Neo-Terrorism and the Gaza Effect? – "I'd also guess that the bombing came in response to the Egyptian government's tacit support for the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza in December and January. The radicals had been repressed, penetrated, tapped, imprisoned, watched. They had made deals. There hadn't been a bombing in Cairo for some time. But my guess is that for a few of them, Gaza was a deal breaker." I like Juan Cole better when he doesn't guess.
- Daily News Egypt – STUDENT PROTEST DEMANDS END TO SECURITY PRESENCE ON CAMPUS – Sarah Carr reports: “For the first time the Muslim Brotherhood has taken part in a protest where demonstrators were holding up pictures of Gamal Abdel Nasser — who imprisoned and killed MB members — and called for the removal of [President] Hosni Mubarak and his government,” the commentator said. “This was previously a red line for the MB — it’s the first time it happens.”
- Can Egypt bring Cleopatra’s palace back to life? – "The water down there isn't just difficult to see through, it's poisonous. And the designs put forward at the moment are for an underwater Disneyland, not a place where people will learn about heritage. If these corporate sponsors want to build a sunken theme park then fine, but don't try and pass it off as a serious archaeological endeavour."
Tags: antiquities, AUC, education, Egypt, El-HusseinExplosion, Gaza, labor, MiddleEast, SaudiArabia, students, terrorism, theEconomy, tourism
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
These are my links for February 21st from 14:18 to 16:22:
Tags: AlQaeda, Arabic, AUC, BinLaden, cinema, detainees, Egypt, energy, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, media, Palestine, police, scienceMagic
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
These are my links for February 14th through February 17th:
Tags: anarchism, anarchists, education, fascism, Gaza, Israel, labor, Lieberman, love, NOLA, photos, racism, relationships, space, SpaceJunk, theEconomy, violence, YisraelBeiteinu, Zionism
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
These are my links for February 10th through February 13th:
Tags: 6FebProGazaMarch, detainees, Egypt, Facebook, fascism, Gaza, Google, Israel, Lieberman, NewYorkTimes, Obama, rendition, Rizk, SocialNetworking, surveillance, torture, web2.0, YisraelBeiteinu
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
This afternoon, AUC students—not generally a very politically-active lot—and a number of faculty came out in support of one of their own. (more…)
Tags: AUC, detainees, Egypt, Gaza, PhilipRizk, photos, police, torture
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Sarah Carr has written an excellent eyewitness account and brief analysis of the kidapping of Philip Rizk, a German-Egyptian AUC graduate student in the Middle East Studies program. He was abducted by state security forces (أمن الدولة) coming home from a march to Qalubiyya. I generally would have just added this link to my usual Delicious feed, but I think this article deserves special attention for its effectiveness in pointing out the sickness of the Egyptian state. At the same time, I want to be careful not to overstate the importance of the lack in the myriad Egyptian security forces of what has come to be know as “professionalism”. I remain unconvinced that a “professional” police or military force, operating under “the rule of law” is a substantial improvement over an “unprofessional” one. At least in the case of the latter, we can more easily discern the true face of power without the mask of a civilized demeanor. It is for the same reason that Arab members of Israel’s Knesset have in some sense looked optimistically at the swing to the right in the legislative body, saying “the mask will fall and the real face [of Israeli democracy] will be revealed”.
If you are one of those people with the right connections (وسطة), please feel free to bring them to bear to help secure Philip’s release.
To stay abreast of news on Philip’s case, you can follow Hossam ElHamalawy’s Delicious feed on the subject.
Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Palestine, police, Rizk
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
These are my links for February 5th through February 7th:
- Petition on Tuition: There’s a Party and We’re Not Invited – AUC's inauguration, coming months late, was indeed quite a scene, though I wouldn't have been welcome to see it for myself. I heard it was awful, predictably enough.
- A market of the living amidst the tombs of the dead: Inside Souq el-Gomma – I just visited the Souq el-Gomma last Friday and had a great time. I'm somewhat glad I didn't get a chance to write down my observations, as this article by one of my favorite local journalists encapsulates much of what I would have had to say, except maybe for the mention of the bald dude in a Liberace fur jacket openly trying to sell a high-powered rifle (scope included) around the toilet plumbing section.
- Rizk’s family file case against Banha police, faculty to demand AUC intervention | AUC Caravan –
- Egypt police detain Egyptian-German activist | World | Reuters – "Rizk, who blogs at Tabula Gaza (http://tabulagaza.blogspot.com) is "passionate" about Gaza and had recently completed most of the work on a short documentary about non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation"
- Defense and the National Interest » On War #290: Blowback Revisited – Not coming from my perspective, really, but an interesting analysis of what we might expect from returning vets who may have been learning lessons from all the wrong models (in my opinion) of life in a stateless society.
Tags: AUC, blowback, Egypt, Gaza, InformalEconomy, interstices, Iraq, Palestine, police, recycling, Rizk, statelessness, students, veterans, war, WasteManagement
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
These are my links for February 1st through February 3rd:
- Gaza war summary – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews – A bit old, but short and biting and amusing: "Despite widespread praise, B. Michael unimpressed with military’s performance in Gaza"
- ei: Every family has a story, here are some of them – The asinine behavior of Israeli soldiers was so rampant, it's hard to imagine that it wasn't somewhat organized and strategic. And it's also hard to imagine what possible use such a strategy would be. Gazans have nowhere to go. Terrorist practices like this won't make the Palestinians leave because they can't. It certainly has no "educational" effect, despite what idiots like Thomas Friedman think. I can only imagine that Israel has no interest whatsoever in reaching any sort of peace with the Palestinians, ever.
- Los Angeles Times: The last stop for a young utopian – I've been reading a lot of sad stories lately, mostly out of Gaza. In many ways, this is much less tragic, but I'm not going to feel bad for mourning the death of "one of our own."
- IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Lebanon | LEBANON: Climate change and politics threaten water wars in Bekaa | Early Warning Environment Conflict | Feature –
- Norman Finkelstein: Behind the Bloodbath in Gaza – Norman Finkelstein explores Israel's twin goals in Gaza: to restore the understanding that Israel will kick your ass if you don't give it your lunch money and to stave off a Palestinian "Peace Offensive".
Tags: anarchism, anarchists, Finkelstein, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Lebanon, NOLA, Palestine, PeaceProcess, ResourceWars, war, water, Zionism
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
What follows is a conversation about the above image, which I’ve been using as my profile picture on Facebook. The other party agreed to have his/her words reproduced here without her/his name attached:
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Tags: anti-semitism, apartheid, BDSmovement, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, war, West Bank
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
These are my links for January 29th:
Tags: borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, labor, Mexico, MiddleEast, Obama, Palestine, solidarity, statistics, trains, transience, tunnels, war, Zionism
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
These are my links for January 28th:
Tags: apartheid, BDSmovement, colonialism, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, peace, settlements, war
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