Iranian Warships Send Message: By Barry Rubin It is common today to speak of the U.S. overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as having unintentionally made revolutionary Islamist Iran from more powerful. Will the overthrow of Egyptian dictator Husni Mubarak have a similar effect? Here’s something that might be a sign in that direction. Two Islamic Republic of Iran warships just visited the Saudi port of Jeddah in the Red Sea. No, that wasn’t a misprint, I said “Red Sea,” and not “Persian Gulf.” This is the first time Iranian warships have been in the Red Sea, just down the coast from Israel and just across from Egypt. By Barry Rubin I hate to say this but please allow me to do my job and try to be a useful observer of these historic events. My position from the beginning has been to make a distinction between Mubarak’s fall–which doesn’t matter–and the total fall of the regime with its being replaced by something totally different and unknown. Now think about this: Millions of Egyptians hated the regime. So the regime blamed everything on Mubarak. Mubarak resigns. Now everyone loves the regime. For sixty years, Egypt has gone through variations but nothing essential has changed. But why not have a more open system? What’s critical is that no one touches the army’s privileges, money, and business enterprises plus doesn’t go after the rich establishment. Who needs to repress people if they aren’t causing you any... International Solidarity Movement’s Huwaida Arraf wants more Rachel Corries to become martyrs for Hamas When I “acknowledged” that the ISM “cooperates with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” I was offering concrete examples of the ways in which these groups were engaging in nonviolent resistance. Now Huwaida Arraf has gone on record with an implied wish that Israel kill American citizens in a confrontation similar to the one that involved the Mavi Marmara. (We found this page through a link from the Bard College ISM chapter’s Web site.) Huwaida Arraf, one of the heads of the Free Gaza Movement that organized the last flotilla with the Turkish IHH organization, said that Freedom Flotilla 2 would be “nonviolent” but would make every effort to reach the Gaza Strip. “We are aware that Israel has attacked us... By Gerald Warner, Scotsman Feb 6/11 The phrase “orderly transition” has become a mantra of the bien-pensant western liberal elite when addressing the Egyptian problem. An orderly transition to what? Oh, you know, democracy … freedom … Uh-huh? And who exactly in Egypt is about to effect that kind of transition? Oh, that’s easy, it has to be Mohamed ElBaradei; he ran the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – must be a safe pair of hands. And he is a Nobel laureate. Well, so is the buffoon in the Oval Office, having been awarded his prize by the... Feb 10: Spencer: Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties Nov 10: The Unholy US/Muslim Alliance June 10: Obama and Hamas Explosions hit three gas pipelines in Iran. Seems like its payback time. Tit for tat. By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com … “If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France,” the right-wing president said. … Notice the still acceptable, multicultural media-speak prefix, “right-wing,” applied to French president Sarkozy by his own countrymen in the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Sarkozy “right-wing?” At most, he’s a centrist. This just proves how far behind the curve our “mainstream,” left-wing media has become. Sarkozy added, “We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.” I couldn’t have said it better (well… maybe, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”). I’m sure the AFP reluctantly admitted that Sarkozy is joining the ranks of many Western... Prosecutions of Jesper Langballe and Geert Wilders don’t pass the smell test Smoke is generally indicative of fire, and a rotten smell is usually evidence of something unpleasant like an unburied cadaver. Current events in Northeast Pennsylvania show that unusual or irregular judicial actions can similarly indicate corruption or subornation of a judicial system: the civic counterpart of a disease in which the body’s own immune system attacks it. We must say up front that there is no evidence of wrongdoing in the prosecutions of Jesper Langballe and Geert Wilders for so-called hate speech against militant “Islam,” and we will accuse no identifiable person of wrongdoing without proof. The smoke is nonetheless there, and so is the rotten stench. Europeans have every right in the world to ask how these laws were enacted in the first place, which legislators introduced them and which legislators voted for them, which prosecutors are bringing these...
Tehran Now Number-One Muslim Power in Region
Not only is this a strategic alarm bell for the United States and Israel but also for the Saudis themselves. Bereft now of their last significant Arab ally and feeling unable to depend on the United States, the Saudis are facing their worst strategic situation since the 1950s at a time when Iran is spreading its influence...Sobering thoughts on Egypt’s future.
Will there be free elections and the choice of a government that will change everything? We will see but it hasn’t happened yet.International Solidarity Movement Hopes Americans will be Killed in Gaza Flotilla
by Bill Levinson
As stated by Huwaida Arraf in her letter to the Washington Post,US subversion of Mubarak will wreck Obama’s presidency
‘WHAT is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now.” In case you were perplexed about how to resolve the crisis in Egypt, Barack Obama spelled out the solution last week. That is the great benefit of having The One to guide the world at times of tension.Obama’s embrace of Hamas and the Brotherhood
April ’08: Obama favours an unholy alliance between Marxism and IslamIs Israel behind the explosions?
Sarkozy joins the growing chorus against idiotic multiculturalism
Something is Rotten in Denmark (and Holland)
by Bill Levinson
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
Sunday, 13 February 2011
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