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Israel and US opposition to democracy in Egypt 22 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am
This should not be a controversial proposition. The United States supported the Mubarak dictatorship for 30 years because of Israel. The United States right now supports dictatorships in its other eff...
Ties between the US, Israeli and Egyptian militaries 21 Aug 2013 | 10:12 am
Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Egypt Army Chief, Turns On Morsi, The President Who Promoted Him (Reuters, July 3, 2013) ISLAM AND UNCLE SAM A career military man, Sisi was groomed for a leadership role after...
What exactly is democracy? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:53 am
Suppose someone tells you Barack Obama should not be President of the United States. Why not? Because democracy is not just votes, but it is also values. And Barack Obama is too socialist to qualify t...
Some articles regarding Egypt 17 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
Study shows opposition to Morsi ouster rises to 69% (Middle East Monitor, August 13, 2013) A recent field study indicates that the number of Egyptians opposed to the overthrow of Dr Mohamed Morsi as ...
Juan Cole and Islamophobic Western claims about the Muslim Brotherhood 16 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
Recently Juan Cole presented a litany of reasons that the Muslim Brotherhood bears responsibility for the recent coup against Egypt's voters. As you might expect, ultimately his list reflects his view...
The dispute between the West and the Muslim world 23 May 2013 | 11:35 pm
There is a real dispute between the world's more than one billion Muslims and the West, led by the United States and the office of the US presidency held by Barack Obama. In that dispute, the West is ...
The case against Israel, or why Israel should not exist 16 May 2013 | 09:39 pm
If a state was created by atrocities, etc, as Israel was, that does not lead to the conclusion that it should not exist. A hypothetical country with a pristine origin and history still does not have a...
Congratulations Egypt on passing a constitution 23 Dec 2012 | 05:31 am
I would have written a more secular constitution than Egypt's Constituent Assembly did. I would have, more importantly to me, given an entire committee of elected civilians oversight of Egypt's milita...
"Near fatal blows" to a two state solution 21 Dec 2012 | 09:39 am
So Israel is building more settlements. These settlements are in areas that if annexed apparently would make a continuous Palestinian state in the West Bank impossible. That would be according to ever...
Not rooting for Morsi, but rooting for democracy 30 Nov 2012 | 04:13 am
To be clear again, I don't think of myself as necessarily a fan of Morsi - even though I am impressed that he is doing a good job preventing the SCAF from delivering the "monopoly over many aspects of...
