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Egypt: Mubarak Builds Support for Son

Over at the Hudson Institute’s Hudson New York blog, Khaled Abu Toameh writes that Hosni Mubarak’s goal in attending the Middle East peace summit was to build support in the West for his son, Gamal..

HRW calls on Jordan to free student for allegedly insulting the king

King Abdullah II of Jordan was urged by US Human rights watch to free a student who was detained and accused of writing a poem criticizing the ruler...

Opposition demand President order integrity in poll

Various political opposition parties and human rights organizations agreed on the signing of a petition sent to President Hosni Mubarak calling for integrity in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections...

IOF troops take over two Palestinian houses in al-Khalil

IOF troops on Friday occupied two houses belonging Palestinians near the Keryat Arba' Jewish settlement in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to local sources...

IOF troops take over two Palestinian houses in al-Khalil

IOF troops on Friday occupied two houses belonging Palestinians near the Keryat Arba' Jewish settlement in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to local sources...

IOA confiscate Jerusalem land to build war dead memorial

The Israeli occupation authorities has decided to build a war dead memorial on lands that belong to Palestinian citizens in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in the occupied city of Jerusalem, well-informed Hebrew sources revealed Thursday...

Algerian aid ship arrives at al-Areesh

An Algerian ship loaded with aid for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip has arrived on Thursday at the Egyptian port of al-Areesh where the cargo will be unloaded and transported by land to the Gaza Strip...

MB series the Group fails to have state's desired negative impact

With approaching parliamentary and presidential elections politics has become the focus of all conversations in Egypt . Unsurprisingly, any discussion about politics rarely comes without a mention of the Muslim Brotherhood, referred to by officials in state-owned media as the “banned or outlawed group."..

Egypt: Campaign supporting intelligence's chief for president

Amid a fevered atmosphere, of controversy and anticipation concerning Egypt's approaching presidential elections a strange campaign has sprung up to nominate Egypt's head of intelligence General Omar Suleiman to run for the country's highest office; the President...

Israel's Ongoing War Against the Press

The recent arrest of an Israeli journalist who allegedly leaked materials to a reporter, and the gag order that followed, is just the latest in a long string of Israel's systematic attacks on press freedom...

MB offshoot in Jordan and National Unity Party to boycott elections

Officials from Jordan 's Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front met with the National Unity Party to discuss an imminent unified boycott of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections...

Beshr: Time has come for the dictatorial regime to let go

Dr. Mohamed Ali Beshr, Secretary General of the Engineers Syndicate and member of the Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau, stressed that the spread of corruption in Egypt on all levels is the normal outcome of a failed system, pointing out that unity between the national and political forces would reform the bad situation in which Egypt is currently living...

Bedouin land fight: claim for native title threatens Israel’s racial exclusiveness

Jonathan Cook considers the legal battle of one Bedouin to repossess his ancestral land in the Negev – a battle that could have ramifications for tens of thousands of Bedouin whose land had been stolen long ago as well as for millions of Palestinian refugees scattered across the Middle East...

George Mitchell hoping for a quick-fix fake peace?

For real peace he must bang heads together at the United Nations to finish their unfinished business..

U.S. gives Israel green light to build in 57 West Bank settlements

As de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas ventures into futile negotiations with Israel, the U.S. has given Israel the green light to resume construction in 57 Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli sources said, despite the alleged decision to freeze settlement activity until September 26...

Mousa: Pessimism surrounds renewed negotiations with Israel

In a comment about the renewed Arab-Israeli peace talks in Washington , Amr Mousa, and Secretary General of the Arab League alleged that many people were not optimistic about the results...

Joint action

The undersigned organisations, express our deep concern about the possibility of prison sentences being handed down on 4 September 2010 to prominent Egyptian human rights activists Gamal Eid, director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Ahmad Saif al-Islam, founder of Hisham Mubarak Law Centre (HMLC), as well as blogger Amr Gharbeia...

Israel bars most Palestinians from praying at Aqsa Mosque

Consistent with the established Israeli policy of denying non-Jews free access to their respective religious places in East Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation authorities have placed stringent restrictions against the entry of Muslims into occupied East Jerusalem...

Gamal Mubarak’s non-campaign

How strange Egyptian politics are becoming. The launch of a “popular campaign” in the last few weeks to encourage Gamal Mubarak to run for presidency appears to have begun the presidential succession process in earnest, after years of official denial that such a thing could happen in Egypt...

US Congress: Obama must press Egypt to relax its political restrictions

Congress and human-rights groups have been urging Obama's administration to force Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to relax regulations and restrictions regarding the country's political system before the presidential elections slated for 2011...