Posts Tagged ‘Mubarak’
The Road to Palestinian Liberation and an End to Zionism Runs Through Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus and Riyadh
We should not forget that the Blockade of Gaza could not continue but for Egypt’s Collaboration with Israel 40 years ago Alexander Haig, Reagan’s Secretary of State described Israel as “the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Given that central to US military doctrine has been the creation of unsinkable island aircraft carriers,…
Read MoreFree Egyptian Union Activist Dr Taher Mokhtar
The Egypt Police State is one of the most vicious states in the world. Torture is normal for political activists who are arrested and many activists simply ‘disappear’. It is a state where hundreds of people are sentenced to death at the same time in what is a mockery of the idea of a fair…
Read MoreThe Egyptian Police State & the War Against Democracy
It is one of the strange ironies of life that the leaders of the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ feel so more comfortable with a strong dictator than the more anarchic situation in Lebanon. When Hosni Mubarak was in danger of falling victim to the Spring Revolution in Egypt, Shimon Peres, Israel’s President and…
Read MoreThe Muslim Brotherhood continues where Mubarak left off – maintaining Israel’s Blockade
The Muslim Brotherhood continues where Mubarak left off – maintaining Israel’s Blockade Egyptian women in Cairo march in protest at the military’s use of excessive force against women and unarmed protesters. Photograph: Mohamed Omar/EPA Hamas keeps silent about the betrayal of its fellow Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has always been a conservative, clerical…
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