Links April 8th to April 9th

Links from my del.icio.us account for April 8th through April 9th:

• algomhuria.net – Editor of al-Gomhouriya says Egypt has a deterrent against Israel's nuclear bomb: its chemical arsenal. Is this the first time a state newspaper acknowledges that Egypt has chemical weapons?
• Desert Candy حلويات الصحراء – Recipes, especially Arab sweets.
• Op-Ed Columnist – Israel Cries Wolf – NYTimes.com – Roger Cohen highlights that Israelis have been talking about Iran's imminent acquisition of nuclear weapons and portraying their leadership as a cult for decades.
• Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu – Haaretz – Israel News – One lives in hope.
• » Obama’s Mideast debut Middle East Strategy at Harvard – MESH roundtable of reactions to Obama's Turkish speech.
• INTERVIEW-Concerns arise over symptomless Egypt bird flu cases | Reuters – Bird flu mutating into symptomless strand that could in turn spread human version of virus
• Joseph Massad has tenure – I don't like much of what Joseph Massad has written – I think he adopts silly nativist positions – but like Angry Arab I am happy that the Zionist intellectual thugs have lost this battle. In fact, this will now enable me to attack Massad with a clear conscience.