, the friend who accompanied me left after the first half hour. We haven’t really talked about why.
Three years of watching friends’ eyes glaze over while spewing the multitudinous minutia of knowledge I have acquired working in Iraq have silenced me.
by: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
2006-2-2
So far the democracy wave the Bush team has helped to unleash in the
Arab-Muslim world since 9/11 has brought to power hard-line Islamic
fundamentalists in Iraq, Palestine and Iran, and paved the way for a record
showing by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. If we keep this up, in a few
years Muslim clerics will be in power from Morocco to the b..
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by: Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily
2006-2-2
Following Hamas’ victory by a large margin in last week’s
Palestinian parliamentary elections, experts watching the terror group
closely tell WND it has been aligning itself more than ever with its
hard-line Islamic counterpart in Egypt and point to worrying signs the new
Palestinian powerbrokers might have designs for an eventual Egyptian
takeover.
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by: SALAH NASRAWI Associated Press Writer
2006-2-2
Two top Egyptian officials called on Hamas to
recognize Israel, disarm and honor past peace deals Wednesday, the latest
sign Arab governments are pushing the militant group to moderate after its
surprise election victory.
Separately, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said that Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas has told Egyptian officials he would hold off on
asking..
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by: El-Misreon
2006-2-2
Raw erupts inside the Judges’ Union upon the Justice Minister’s insistence not to preview them with the latest amendments introduced to their long-prepared bill of Judiciary Power.
In a meeting held between Mahmud Abu el-Lail, the Justice Minister, and the union’s director board, the judges criticized the oppressing approach of the government to make amendments that spoil th..
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by: (Ikhwan web)
2006-2-2
Upon its success in the parliamentary elections, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on the peace-sponsored Quatrain Committee to engage into a non-preconditioned dialogue and to keep on offering funds to the Palestinians.
In its statement, Hamas urged the Committee, which includes the U.S., the U.N., the E.U. and Russia, ’to initiate non-preconditioned talks.’
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by: Khalid Mish’al, The Guardian
2006-2-2
Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their rights. But we are ready to make a just peace
It is widely recognised that the Palestinians are among the most politicised and educated peoples in the world. When they went to the polls last Wednesday they were well aware of what was on offer and those who voted for Hamas knew what it stood ..
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by: palestine-info
2006-2-3
A squad of the Quds Brigades, armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, successfully shelled Israeli targets in the 1948-occupoied Palestinian city of Majdal as a middle-range home-made missile landed at the city’s industrial zone causing deafening explosions, sources in the Brigades affirmed.
The sources asserted that members of the squad safely returned back to bases after the a..
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by: palestine-info
2006-2-3
A delegation of the Hamas-affiliated change and reform bloc who recently won the legislative elections in Al-Khalil city on Wednesday called on the city’s police station.
The delegation members affirmed that their bloc targeted amending any deviation for the interest of the citizens and the country.
"We are in one boat in service of this country," they told the security officers..
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by: (PIC)
2006-2-3
More than 5,000 Muslims in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country, participated in the rally organized by the influential KISPA (the Indonesian committee for solidarity with Palestine) bloc that groups more than 13 Indonesian organizations supporting the Palestinian issue in the heart of the capital, Jakarta.
The massive gatherings hailed the recent crushing victory obtained by the..
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by: (PIC)
2006-2-3
Commenting on news reports circulated by media that the PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, was laying conditions on the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, before authorizing it to form the new government, Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday asserted that both Abbas and the Egyptian government had affirmed their full respect to the PLC election’s outcome as well as it..
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by: (PIC)
2006-2-3
The Palestinian MP-elect Dr. Mariam Saleh of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirmed that her Movement will never resort to coercion in presenting its Islamic views and opinions to the Palestinian people, and would resort to objective dialogue instead.
Saleh assurances retorted to circulated rumors that Hamas will forcibly impose the Islamic law on the Palestinian street ..
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by: (PIC)
2006-2-3
The heads of Churches in the Holy Land have congratulated the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on its resounding victory in last week’s legislative elections.
The Churches issued a joined statement, commending the Palestinian people on their “democratic spirit” and the success of organizing the elections.
The statement said Christian Church leaders in Jerusalem an..
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by: Vivian Salama, the Daily Star
2006-2-3
America’s first president, George Washington, delivered the first ever address detailing to Congress and, consequently to the American people, the state of the union, detailing his administration’s initiatives and accomplishments. Since then, this "annual message", later renamed the "State of the Union" address, has evolved into an expansive communiqué between the US administration, its a..
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by: (Ikhwan web)
2006-2-4
The spokesman of The Muslim Brotherhood’s bloc in the parliament, Hassen Hamdy, tabled an oral question to the Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazef, concerning the investment policy of the government. Hamdy indicated that the government fails in adopting general polices that help creating an encouraging atmosphere for national and foreign investments. This failure casts a devastating impact on the national..
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by: (Ikhwan web)
2006-2-4
In an official visit to Cairo, Mussa Abu Marzoq, the vice president of Hamas Political Bureau, will meet with top Egyptian officials to talk about Hamas status after its victory in the Palestinian elections. In addition, Abu Marzoq will participate in the mock trail held by the Arab Bar Union against the US President, British and Israeli Prime Ministers.
In his statements to Ikhwan onl..
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by: (Ikhwan web)
2006-2-4
The Muslim Brotherhood’s MPs lodged 40 urgent inquiries to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transportation concerning the Egyptian ship which sank off the Port of Safaga on the Red Sea leaving more 1000 dead.
In Their accounts, the lawmakers accused the government of negligence and carelessness regarding the disaster. According to official reports, communications with the ship were..
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by: Daniel Williams, Washington Post Foreign Service
2006-2-5
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood May Be Model for Islam’s Political Adaptation
Mustafa Mohamed Mustafa, a legislator from the Muslim Brotherhood, stood on the Egyptian parliament’s tiered floor, pulled out a copy of the constitution and waved it at the speaker, Fathi Sorour, who belongs to the ruling party of President Hosni Mubarak.
It was a sign, under parliamentary rules, that he w..
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