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Egypt: Will break legs of anyone crossing Gaza border

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally. “Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight.

This makes Aboul Gheit sound like some third-rate mafia thug. Except he doesn’t look very tough, does he?

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Lookalikes

Can you help me tell these gentlemen apart? One of them is Shimon Peres, the other is Skeletor, Evil Lord of Destruction.

Links February 4th to February 5th

Automatically posted links for February 4th through February 5th:

The Experiment in Gaza — In These Times – Argues blockade is about breaking the Pals’ backs

Bernard Kouchner – Profiled in the NYT, a bit silly at times but interesting

The Strangulation of Gaza – The Nation on how Israel decided to put, in Dov Weiglass word’s, Gaza on a diet

Israeli Apartheid Week 2008 – Official site of movement, events across the world

Annals of National Security: A Strike in the Dark – Hersh on the disinformation campaign around Israel’s raid on Syria

Libyans advance in Al Qaeda network – Because people tend to forget that over half of Arabs are in North Africa

Suicide bomber kills one in Dimona

Suicide bomber kills one in Dimona – Haaretz

And did he cross from Egypt?

Links January 29th and February 3rd

Automatically posted links for January 29th through February 3rd:

Qatar reports new damage to Gulf undersea cables – Fourth time in a week – I think there’s a conspiracy afoot

Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S., Ghanem Says – Qadhafi puts his country’s money elsewhere

Ezzedine Choukri: “?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?” – Rafah episode shows current situation is losing one for all

The path of centrist political Islam by Khalil Al-Anani – Al-Anani says MB hopeless, Wasat way forward

Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography – Fisk, hagiographer of Saddam Hussein

Making a Great Arab City – I like this Rami Khouri piece on Dubai even though I am skeptical, because it praises the tradition of Arab cosmopolitan urbanism

Arab Media Watch Arab Media Watch > Home – UK outfit combats anti-Arab bias in press

Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt’s political cover – Op-ed takes Egypt’s hypocrisy on Palestine to task

It’s time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton – Faraday prize winner defends historic Arab scholarship

For sale: West?s deadly nuclear secrets – Whistleblower says top US officials sold nuke secrets to Pakistan (the person is not named in the article, but others say it’s Marc Grossman)

Al-Jazeera Journalist Arrested in Egypt – Howeida Taha arrested, again

AFP: Egypt censors book fair – Mohammed Choukri, Milan Kundera, Elias Khoury, Hanan al-Sheikh censored from Cairo Book Fair.

Links January 27th and January 28th

Automatically posted links for January 27th through January 28th:

The Root | TheRoot.com – New African-American webzine

Mort de George Habache – Carnets du Diplo – Alain Gresh

Obituary: George Habash – David Hirst

Killer noise pollution in Egypt – Average Downtown Cairo “like spending the day in a factory”

Iran’s Literature Today – Contemporary Iranian lit in translations (and the original)

US MILITARY BREAKS RANKS, Part 1 –

US MILITARY BREAKS RANKS, Part 2 – Mark Perry on Iraq, the surge and military bureaucratic politics

Egypt takes offers for nuclear project – Let the race for contracts begin

Links January 25th and January 26th

Automatically posted links for January 25th through January 26th:

The Arab – New London-based magazine on MENA

MidEast Brief::Egypt – Newish website links to articles on region

Egypt says will keep border open and help Gazans restock – Unable to stop flow of people, Egypt maintains borders open

Abbas: No talks with Hamas despite Gaza border chaos – Abu Mazen turns down Cairo talks with Hamas

PALESTINIANS CREATE NEW BREACHES DESPITE EGYPTIAN ATTEMPTS TO SEAL THE BORDER – Article mentions Egyptian tanks on their way to border

Gaza source: Hamas planned border wall blast for months – Amira Hass

Gaza into Egypt Middle East Strategy at Harvard – M. Kramer revives “give Gaza a chunk of Egypt” idea, good response by S. Cook

The People in Gaza Challenge Sham Peace Process – Juan Cole’s Informed Comment hosts Joel Beinin op-ed

ANALYSIS: Gaza border breach shows Israel that Hamas is in charge – Haaretz analysis

?????????? ?????: ????: ???? ?? ???? ??? ??????? ????? ??? – Mahdi Akef denied that Khaled Meshaal asked him to stage Gaza siege demos

Furlough Day for Gazans (Prospects for Peace) – Daniel Levy

Appeal for the defense of individual freedoms – Moroccan liberals call for right to individual freedoms after Islamist gay witch-hunt

Egypt’s Gaza policy / A pan-Arab consensus? – Haaretz analyzes Egypt’s tough position re: Gaza and Hamas

Links January 23rd and January 24th

Automatically posted links for January 23rd through January 24th:

Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi : “La Mauritanie n’est pas un pays de prédilection pour les terroristes” – Afrique – Le Monde interview with Mauritanian president

Egypt holds scores from Brotherhood over Gaza protests – Backlash against MB for organizing first major protests since 2006

Gazans flood through Egypt border – Things are not looking good, especially as Israelis have cut fuel supplies again

YouTube – TPMtv: War of Attrition – Excerpts from Democratic debate – some good jousting there

The worst market crisis in 60 years – George Soros in the FT on the current financial crisis

Links for January 22nd

Automatically posted links for January 22nd:

Defusing the Gaza Time Bomb – Rob Malley op-ed on Gaza

L’Iran soupçonné de traficde matière radioactive – Uzbek catch shipment of Cesium 137 on train, Iran suspected

THE ANNAPOLIS OPENING HAS CLOSED – Former Israel negotiator with Syria explains why another opportunity for new peace track has gone

BibliOdyssey: Arabic Machine Manuscript – Beautiful images of ancient books on science

La base de l?Africom sera installée au Maroc – Algeria’s Liberte says AFRICOM base will be in southern Morocco

Internal Memo Takes on Obama?s Approach to Middle East – Jewish organizations uneasy about Obama?

Guys, I’m afraid we haven’t got a clue … – The first of three extracts from Jonathan Steele’s new book on how Britain went to war in Iraq utterly unprepared

ei: Where does it end? – Abunimah on the siege of Gaza

Links January 20th and January 21st

Automatically posted links for January 20th through January 21st:

al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online – Questions include “why haven’t you opened a new front in Egypt” and more depressing idiocy

Measuring liberty | When freedom stumbles | Economist.com – Look at the charts: in 1982 Egypt was “partly free,” now it is “not free”

Economics focus | Selling sex | Economist.com – Interesting article on the economics of prostitution

HAMAS ASKS EGYPT TO REOPEN RAFAH BORDER – Hamas puts Cairo on the spot

Translating the Party of God into English – Quilty reviews Hizbullah in translation

Review: Loaded Dice by Neill Lochery – Debunking of idea that UK Foreign Office is pro-Arab or anti-Israel

The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub – Media critic Najm Jarrah

An Israeli Law for Censorship of Web Comments – Elijah points to a bill in the Knesset that would enable libel laws for web comments

Why does Johnny come marching homeless? – How Iraq veterans with psychological problems end up homeless

Those troublesome engineers « Kafr al-Hanadwa – SP has a good post on why engineers are over-represented in Islamist groups