{"id":2907,"date":"2009-02-20T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:00:34","slug":"2009-2-20-links-february-19th-to-february-20th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"Links February 19th to February 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 19th through February 20th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20090219\/OPINION\/25097334\/1006\/rss\">Hizbollah has won battles but has lost its social anchor &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Michael Young&#39;s critique of Hizbullah&#39;s obstructionism to a Lebanese state project. (I&#39;m not sure other movements are any less obstructionist, although Hizbullah is the one with the most weapons&#8230;)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/02\/18\/santorum-on-islam\/\">Think Progress &raquo; Santorum ignorantly refers to language of Qur&rsquo;an as &lsquo;Islamic.&rsquo;<\/a> &#8211; Too funny.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/humanprovince.wordpress.com\/\">the human province<\/a> &#8211; The continued moral and intellectual decline of Christopher Hitchens: &quot;In order to illustrate how he knows so much more about Lebanon than anyone else in the room, when pressed, the only &ldquo;true revolutionary&rdquo; he could come up with was Walid Joumblatt. To this, the audience mostly just laughed out loud. I would have felt sorry for Hitchens if he hadn&rsquo;t been such a pompous ass.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10322.shtml\">ei: Film review: &#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; A negative review by Electronic Intifada says Palestinians are absent from the film.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1065499.html\">U.S. Senator Kerry to make rare visit to Gaza &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; But will they meet anyone from Hamas?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasry-alyoum.com\/article2.aspx?ArticleID=199718\">Gamal Mubarak: We&#8217;ll Back Zamalek, It Can&#8217;t Be Relegated To First Division<\/a> &#8211; Another sign, along with his televised apologia for Egypt&#39;s position during the Gaza war last night, that Gamal is aiming for the statesman image: he wants to fix Zamalek Football Club&#39;s embarassing problems. This is what a head of state does in Egypt: intervene in the most minute problems. Look at [Hosni] Mubarak promising to amend the traffic law for truck drivers last night; is this really the role of a president?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/fe19b3ea-fe11-11dd-932e-000077b07658.html\">FT.com \/ Middle East &#8211; Egypt frees challenger to Mubarak<\/a> &#8211; A sensibly cautious story on Nour&#39;s release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 19th through February 20th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20090219\/OPINION\/25097334\/1006\/rss\">Hizbollah has won battles but has lost its social anchor &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Michael Young&#39;s critique of Hizbullah&#39;s obstructionism to a Lebanese state project. (I&#39;m not sure other movements are any less obstructionist, although Hizbullah is the one with the most weapons&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/02\/18\/santorum-on-islam\/\">Think Progress &raquo; Santorum ignorantly refers to language of Qur&rsquo;an as &lsquo;Islamic.&rsquo;<\/a> &#8211; Too funny.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/humanprovince.wordpress.com\/\">the human province<\/a> &#8211; The continued moral and intellectual decline of Christopher Hitchens: &quot;In order to illustrate how he knows so much more about Lebanon than anyone else in the room, when pressed, the only &ldquo;true revolutionary&rdquo; he could come up with was Walid Joumblatt. To this, the audience mostly just laughed out loud. I would have felt sorry for Hitchens if he hadn&rsquo;t been such a pompous ass.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10322.shtml\">ei: Film review: &#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; A negative review by Electronic Intifada says Palestinians are absent from the film.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1065499.html\">U.S. Senator Kerry to make rare visit to Gaza &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; But will they meet anyone from Hamas?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasry-alyoum.com\/article2.aspx?ArticleID=199718\">Gamal Mubarak: We&#8217;ll Back Zamalek, It Can&#8217;t Be Relegated To First Division<\/a> &#8211; Another sign, along with his televised apologia for Egypt&#39;s position during the Gaza war last night, that Gamal is aiming for the statesman image: he wants to fix Zamalek Football Club&#39;s embarassing problems. This is what a head of state does in Egypt: intervene in the most minute problems. Look at [Hosni] Mubarak promising to amend the traffic law for truck drivers last night; is this really the role of a president?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/fe19b3ea-fe11-11dd-932e-000077b07658.html\">FT.com \/ Middle East &#8211; Egypt frees challenger to Mubarak<\/a> &#8211; A sensibly cautious story on Nour&#39;s release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}