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  • Egyptian minds are opened

    When Egypt awoke on Saturday morning after an all-night, nationwide party, it was for many citizens the first day in living memory without Hosni Mubarak as president. In 18 days, revolution uprooted a regime that had ruled the country with ruthless tenacity for 30 years. While the upheaval has opened the door to political and economic reform, its.. More

  • Hungry Gazans feed Egyptian troops

    Mustapha Suleiman, 27, from J Block east of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, crosses through gaps in the iron fence on the border carrying bread, water, meat cans and a handful of vegetables for Egyptian soldiers stationed on the other side. "Whatever you offer on Saturday you will receive on Sunday," Suleiman says. "I am ready to help.. More

  • Egypt's Berlin Wall moment

    Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, four transformative events have reshaped the global setting in enduring ways. When the Soviet empire collapsed two years later, the way was opened for the triumphalist pursuit of the American imperial project, seizing the opportunity for geopolitical expansion provided by its self-anointed global leadership.. More

  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and Israel

    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 12 days are the Israeli connections. A central and critical reality is that it is US tax money that has propped up Hosni Mubarak’s despotic regime over the past 30 years, and that this money has flowed, from the beginning, largely on behalf of.. More

  • 'Mubarak is going. He is on the cusp of final departure'

    The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal – will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP represented in Egypt is now a mere shell, a propaganda.. More

  • 'Mubarak's thugs shot, stab protesters'

    Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's thugs and under-cover police stab protesters to dead, shooting many others, including women and children, on the tenth day of revolution protests rocking the country. Early reports suggest that six people have been killed, however, fierce clashes which have erupted in different parts of the capital city.. More

  • '300 reported dead in Egypt protests'

    The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday she had unconfirmed reports that up to 300 people may have been killed and over 3,000 injured in the unrest that has engulfed Egypt for the past week. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, was appalled by reported death toll and injury count, saying, "I urge the Egyptian authorities.. More

  • 'Anxious' Israel backs Egypt regime

    Israel has called on the United States and Europe to curb their criticism of president Hosni Mubarak "in a bid to preserve stability in Egypt" and the wider Middle East, an Israeli newspaper reports. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Monday that the foreign ministry, in an urgent special cable, instructed its ambassadors to key countries,.. More

  • 'Tunisia Revolution not far from Arabs'

    The Arab League's (AL) secretary general has warned that Arab states are on the brink of revolution, calling for an Arab “renaissance.” "The Tunisian revolution is not far from us," Amr Moussa told 20 Arab leaders and other representatives gathered in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, adding that the Arabs.. More

  • 'Israel provides weapons for Egypt'

    Israel has provided the Egyptian government with weapons amid the country's popular uprising demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, reports say. The reports followed phone conversations between the US, Egyptian and Israeli defense ministers as the anti-government protests entered the seventh day on Monday. Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed.. More

  • The al-Madhoun assassination

    The Palestinian Authority (PA) has shown operational willingness to cooperate with Israel to kill its own people, the Palestine Papers indicate. Among the documents are notes, handwritten in Arabic, revealing an exchange in 2005 between the PA and Israel on a plan to kill a Palestinian fighter named Hassan al-Madhoun, who lived in the Gaza strip. Al-Madhoun.. More

  • Report: Israeli troops shot dead activists before raid

    Turkey has given information about the Mavi Marmara attack in its interim report, indicating, "it is a central principle of international law that when a state violates its international obligations, it has a duty to make reparations for the wrongs committed and provide for compensation." Turkey submitted its interim report to the interrogation.. More

  • PA selling short the refugees

    At the Bourj el Barajneh refugee camp in southern Beirut, a centre for the elderly serves as an oasis from the overcrowded, filthy conditions outside its metal doors. On a recent Thursday morning, a group of men and women in their 60s and 70s gathered around a table to color and draw pictures, while others solved crossword puzzles. One woman sitting.. More

  • "The biggest Yerushalayim"

    For all the international controversy over construction at this quiet settlement in north Jerusalem, there is little of it in evidence. The controversy came last year, when the Jerusalem municipality approved 1,600 new housing tenders while Joe Biden, the US vice-president, was visiting Israel. But construction has yet to begin, and residents of this.. More

  • Gaza children 'at risk' near border

    Children in Gaza are coming under regular gunfire from Israeli soldiers while scavenging in the ruins of buildings bombed during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2009, a new Save the Children report has warned. Twenty-six children were shot by Israeli troops close to the border last year, according to the UNICEF-led working group on children affected.. More