Maghreb and the Middle East – facts and ideas

Strands of opinion 2 ~ #Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu



Latest post from Juan Cole [read all the Egypt one]: a devastating critique of American policy in the Middle East:


Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu



February 5, 2011 Posted by | Egypt, U.S. | Leave a comment

Strands of opinion 1 ~ #Egypt ~ Mark #LeVine professor of #history UC Irvine ~ It’s time for Obama to say Kefaya! [http://bit.ly/gqZVSz]



Article in In Depth section at Al Jazeera.net :


It’s time for Obama to say Kefaya!

– He took the White House armed with hope and promise of change, but has Obama already been beaten down by Washington?


by


Mark LeVine – professor of history at UC Irvine / senior visiting researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.


His most recent books are Heavy Metal Islam (Random House) and Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (Zed Books).



February 5, 2011 Posted by | Al Jazeera English, Barak Obama, Egypt, Egyptian Armed Forces, Egyptian military factories, Egyptian opposition groups, Egyptian political parties, Israel, Mark Levine, military-industrial complex, Mubarak, Palestinian papers, U.S., U.S. Embassy cables -Egypt, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Maybe I should change my name…..








……Hosni Obama. Hmm……So he’d be Barak Mubarak. Ah, shucks. All the luck. All the money too by the look of it:


Mubarak family fortune could reach $70bn, say experts
Egyptian president has cash in British and Swiss banks plus UK and US property



February 5, 2011 Posted by | Barak Obama, Egypt, kleptocracy, kleptocrat | Leave a comment