{"id":2949,"date":"2009-03-15T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2009-03-15T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:00:10","slug":"2009-3-15-links-march-5th-to-march-15th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"Links March 5th to March 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for March 5th through March 15th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2009\/03\/14\/passeports-comoriens-en-vente-libre-pour-les-sans-papiers-du-golfe_1167908_3212.html#xtor=RSS-3210\">Passeports comoriens en vente libre pour les sans-papiers du Golfe &#8211; Afrique &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; Comoros Islands sell citizenship to Gulf &quot;bidoun&quot; for 2000 euros. Ironic that a country that is partly disappearing (due to rising sea levels) is doing this&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2009\/03\/13\/Egypt_fatwa_Community_can_force_divorce\/UPI-56201236977325\/\">Egypt fatwa: Community can force divorce &#8211; UPI.com<\/a> &#8211; More stupid hesba fatwas &#8211; except now this sheikh says people can be divorced by their communities not only for religious reasons but also &quot;if the couple&#39;s differences appear irreconcilable.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mero\/mero030509.html\">Middle East Report Online: Wanted: Omar al-Bashir&mdash;and Peace in Sudan by Khalid Mustafa Medani<\/a> &#8211; Praises ICC decision but argues that real issue is how to further peace in Sudan&#39;s multiple conflicts.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/03\/05\/the_best_defense_is_to_be_offensive_a_response_to_chait_goldfarb_and_goldberg\">The assault on Charles Freeman (part 2) | Stephen M. Walt<\/a> &#8211; More from Stephen Walt on the hysteric reaction to the appointment of Chas Freeman.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=22814&amp;prog=zgp&amp;proj=zme\">European Conflict Management in the Middle East: Toward a More Effective Approach &#8211; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/a> &#8211; As I always say: &quot;Although Europe actively tries to manage Middle East crises it undermines its economic, political, and security interests by assuming a secondary role to the United States and following its policy line.&quot; The US, with its extremist Zionist control over foreign policy, is out of play. The EU has to get balls.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaddafi-partei.at\/\">Die Gaddafi-Partei &Ouml;sterreich<\/a> &#8211; Austria&#39;s Qadhafi Party. Yes, as in Lybian leader Muammar Qadhafi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for March 5th through March 15th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2009\/03\/14\/passeports-comoriens-en-vente-libre-pour-les-sans-papiers-du-golfe_1167908_3212.html#xtor=RSS-3210\">Passeports comoriens en vente libre pour les sans-papiers du Golfe &#8211; Afrique &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; Comoros Islands sell citizenship to Gulf &quot;bidoun&quot; for 2000 euros. Ironic that a country that is partly disappearing (due to rising sea levels) is doing this&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2009\/03\/13\/Egypt_fatwa_Community_can_force_divorce\/UPI-56201236977325\/\">Egypt fatwa: Community can force divorce &#8211; UPI.com<\/a> &#8211; More stupid hesba fatwas &#8211; except now this sheikh says people can be divorced by their communities not only for religious reasons but also &quot;if the couple&#39;s differences appear irreconcilable.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mero\/mero030509.html\">Middle East Report Online: Wanted: Omar al-Bashir&mdash;and Peace in Sudan by Khalid Mustafa Medani<\/a> &#8211; Praises ICC decision but argues that real issue is how to further peace in Sudan&#39;s multiple conflicts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/03\/05\/the_best_defense_is_to_be_offensive_a_response_to_chait_goldfarb_and_goldberg\">The assault on Charles Freeman (part 2) | Stephen M. Walt<\/a> &#8211; More from Stephen Walt on the hysteric reaction to the appointment of Chas Freeman.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=22814&amp;prog=zgp&amp;proj=zme\">European Conflict Management in the Middle East: Toward a More Effective Approach &#8211; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/a> &#8211; As I always say: &quot;Although Europe actively tries to manage Middle East crises it undermines its economic, political, and security interests by assuming a secondary role to the United States and following its policy line.&quot; The US, with its extremist Zionist control over foreign policy, is out of play. The EU has to get balls.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaddafi-partei.at\/\">Die Gaddafi-Partei &Ouml;sterreich<\/a> &#8211; Austria&#39;s Qadhafi Party. Yes, as in Lybian leader Muammar Qadhafi.<\/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\/2949"}],"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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}