Mubarak Refuses to Step Down
CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak told the Egyptian people Thursday that he would delegate more authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but that he would not resign his post, contradicting earlier reports that he would step aside and surprising hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered to hail his departure from the political scene.
In a nationally televised address following a tumultuous day of political rumors and conflicting reports, Mr. Mubarak said he would “admit mistakes” and honor the sacrifices of young people killed in the three-week uprising, but that he would continue to “shoulder my responsibilities” until September, and did not give a firm indication that he would cede political power.
Even as Mr. Mubarak spoke, angry chants were shouted from huge crowds in Cairo who had anticipated his resignation but were instead confronted with a plea from the president to support continued rule by him and his chosen aides. People waved their...
Is Antisemitism Exempt from the Media’s Demand for Civility?
By Matthew M. Hausman
The shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others by a deranged assailant was tragic and unforeseen. While the public’s first impulse was to mourn the dead and pray for the injured, the government’s job should have been to determine how to protect against such acts in the future. Unfortunately, partisan politicians and pundits seized the opportunity to blame their ideological opponents for allegedly facilitating the tragedy through verbal incitement. Despite much finger-pointing at conservative commentators and media outlets, however, nobody could link a single “reactionary” statement to the shootings. On the contrary, it seems that the shooter, Jason Lee Loughner, was a registered independent who appeared to have no particular political bent. But the absence of any correlation between his actions and conservative speech was hardly the point. Rather, the situation provided a convenient soapbox for tendentious reporters to disparage...
Details on the Red/Green Alliance
U.S. Marxists Conspiring with Muslim Brotherhood to Collapse the Middle East
James Simpson, AMERICAN THINKER
A series of in depth studies by Cliff Kincaid at
America’s Survival provide vivid detail to the assertions presented in last week’s article,
We are witnessing the collapse of the Middle East. This series is not to be missed:
Obama is sucking and blowing at same time
[On the one hand he is now saying he can't do anything and the other hand he is kissing up to the street.]
WASHINGTON — The White House warned Egypt’s leaders to expect unrelenting protests unless they start to show real reforms and a transition to a freer society, dismissing governmental concessions so far as not having met even the minimum threshold of what people want.
Obama administration officials were also increasingly blunt in describing the limits of their leverage, reasserting that the United States is not seeking to dictate events in Egypt — and that it cannot.
“We’re not going to be able to force them do anything,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday.
Still, Gibbs and other officials called on Egypt’s leaders to end the harassment of activists, to broaden the makeup of their negotiations with opposition leaders, to lift a repressive emergency law, and to take up a series of other moves the Obama...
Israel and Saudi ‘Allies’ Press Obama to Ease Off Mubarak
How did Obama ever think he could undermine Mubarak without alienating his “friends”? Ted Belman
A strange if temporary Arab-Israel alliance has brought Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Washington to press U.S. President Barack Obama to be careful of a hasty change in the Egyptian government that could pave the wave for another Muslim country ruled by terrorists.
Barak is in Washington for a two-day visit that he initiated out of concerns that American pressure on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign might create more evidence that the Middle East – except for Israel — is not safe for democracy.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jordan also are wary of Mubarak’s being forced out of office too soon. The Saudi and Jordanian kings phoned President Obama last week, and UAE defense minister Mohammed bin Zayed issued a statement calling for “stability” after he called the American president Sunday.
The U.S. isn’t interested in Mideast peace
[If haaretz can publish this, so can I.]
Washington wants the region engulfed in flames; it just wants to control their height.
By Salman Masalha, HAARETZ
It should be said explicitly: The United States is not interested in attaining peace in the Middle East. Peace in the region is not its top priority, and it has never corresponded with its interests. These things might sound strange to anyone who is not sensitive to the mood in the region. Whoever believes the Arabic television station Al Jazeera is a mouthpiece of radical Islam, which endangers American interests, is invited to refresh his memory and update his imagination, because this radical Islam has actually been fostered by various American administrations.
A simple question should be answered: How did the populist channel find a home in the small emirate of Qatar, of all places? It is well known that the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East is located in Qatar. The WikiLeaks documents revealed that Qatar was a...
Wilders speech at beginning of his trial
The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe
By Ghert Wilders
h/t to Gates of Vienna
The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. The foundation of the West is under attack everywhere.
All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us for fourteen centuries. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve , the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. Surprisingly, the elites do not want to hear any criticism of this ideology.
My trial is not an isolated incident. Only fools believe it is. All over Europe...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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