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2008-12-9
Lubna Masarwa, one of the Free Gaza organizers, stated that, "Gaza doesn’t need charity. What Gaza needs is sustained political action aimed at overcoming this vicious siege. We are unarmed civilians carrying desperately needed supplies to other unarmed civilians. It would be obscene for Israel to use violence to stop us."
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2008-12-9
Rovera added that the infrastructure in Gaza was rapidly deteriorating due to the lack of fuel, electricity and spare parts, and warned that hospitals are in great shortage of basic materials. She noted that tens of Palestinian patients have died over the past year in the Strip while they could have been saved if they were allowed to travel for treatment abroad...
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2008-12-9
Local sources said that Amal Obeidi was twice before held in Israeli custody, and added that the Israeli security elements confiscated Amal’s mobile phone, documents and a video camera along with her brother’s personal computer...
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2008-12-9
Ikhwanweb team expresses its deep sorrow over the sad bus accident that left 14 dead, including a five-months- old infant, who were in their way to spend a vacation in Alexandria last Monday.
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2008-12-8
JFG has already tried to deliver, in August, donated medicines to the Gaza Strip when they sent a van loaded with medicines which passed through 12 European countries on it route to the Rafah crossing, but the van was stranded for a month at the Rafah crossing and the Egyptian authorities would not allow it in.
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2008-12-6
Egyptian Central Security forces blocked on Saturday the third aid convoy that was supposed to head for the besieged Gaza strip in the morning. The convoy was to be launched from the State Council, which was blockaded by central security officers and trucks...
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2008-12-6
Egyptian state security forces arrested three participants in the relief convoy that was supposed to head for the besieged Gaza strip on Saturday morning but was blocked by police. The arrested include a blogger, a TV interpreter, and an official in State Council. The blogger and the state council official were released after several hours of humiliating treatment in custody...
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2008-12-6
David Ginsberg at Partnership for a Secure America highlights an interesting WorldPublicOpinion.org survey on Muslim Perceptions of the UN. The organization polled Muslims from several countries, finding, “there is widespread support for a more active UN with much broader powers than it has today. On the other hand, there is a perception that the UN is dominated by the US and there is dissatisfaction with UN performance on several fronts…” Notably, 63% of those surveyed said they wou..
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2008-12-6
One: Michael Allen at Democracy Digest collects several pieces on democracy efforts in Palestine, including an article by David Keyes at The New Republic on teaching democracy to schoolchildren in Ramallah...
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2008-12-6
In case you haven’t heard, Barack Obama has been toying with the idea of “making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.”..
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2008-12-6
The Arab Doctors Union has warned that a health disaster would imminently befall the Gaza Strip and neighboring countries if urgent assistance was not expedited to the besieged Strip...
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2008-12-6
The third convoy of the people campaign "Breaking siege on Gaza" will be launched today, Saturday, from before the State Council Court in Giza at 11.00 am...
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2008-12-6
Media spokesman of Islamic Sharia Committee (dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood) in the Bar Association Mohamed Tosson confirmed that the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies in the committee were nominated to six seats of a total of 15 seats in the General Committee of the Syndicate, while in the primary courts the nomination was to all seats with the exception of Al Borg Al Ahmar and South Sinai..
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2008-12-5
Elections do little to enhance democratic development if state institutions are ineffective or unresponsive, argues Rep. David Price (D-NC) in a forthcoming issue of The Washington Quarterly. The new administration should sustain the U.S. commitment to democracy promotion, despite recent setbacks and mistakes. Price draws several lessons for promoting democracy, drawing on the House Democracy Assistance Commission’s work in strengthening partner legislatures in Afghanistan, Indonesia, ..
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2008-12-5
In a piece in the Washington Quarterly, Rep. David Price (D-NC) presents the case for a sustained U.S. commitment to democracy promotion abroad, and offers practical advice to the new administration. Price stresses that the U.S. must not sacrifice the democracy agenda for other goals: “Democracy is an antidote to terrorism and violent conflict because it facilitates economic opportunity and channels societal grievances into peaceful and predictable processes for addressing them.”..
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2008-12-5
Michele Dunne has a new piece in the Washington Quarterly titled “The Baby, the Bathwater, and the Freedom Agenda in the Middle East.” In it, she urges Barack Obama to resist the temptation to abandon democracy promotion altogether in an attempt to break clean from the failures of the Bush administration’s freedom agenda..
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2008-12-5
The December issue of Carnegie’s Arab Reform Bulletin is up. With characteristic excellence, the new issue includes an article on Iraq’s upcoming provincial elections, and a piece analyzing the evolution of Libyan ..
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2008-12-5
In this period of transition, as we all look toward the Middle East policy of the new Obama administration, we here at POMED have asked a variety of respected voices from the community of Middle East policy experts, democracy promotion practitioners, pollsters, academics, and human rights advocates to answer the following question in 300 words or less:..
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2008-12-5
The Century Foundation has published a report by POMED’s Director of Research Shadi Hamid entitled “Resolving America’s Islamist Dilemma.” In it, Hamid points out that the U.S. has no clear and consistent policy for dealing with moderate Islamist groups in the Arab world. He notes the U.S. is more apt to engage and encourage political space for Islamist parties in countries with less strategic relevance. Conversely, in countries more central to U.S. national security interests, we ar..
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2008-12-4
Egyptian security services launched on Thursday dawn sweeps of arrests that included- until now- 14 Muslim Brotherhood members from Alexandria, 12 from Sharqiyah, 20 from Ismailia, 14 from Gharbiya...
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