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Resheq demands British gov’t to apologize openly for Balfour declaration

Ezzat Al-Reshsq, a member of Hamas political bureau, called on the British government to apologize outright to the Palestinian people for the crime committed by its former minister of foreign affairs Arthur Balfour against Palestine and its people...

Turkish university students throw eggs at Israeli ambassador

Turkish students in the city of Trabzon on Wednesday hurled rotten eggs at Israeli ambassador to Turkey Gabby Levy during his visit to the Black Sea university in protest at the war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip...

Hamas: Abbas’s speech clearly mourns the futile peace process

The Hamas Movement has said on Thursday that the speech of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas was plain and clear-cut announcement of the failure of the "peace process" which he and his Fatah faction have been wagering on for almost two decades...

November 17, scheduled breaking point for the MB military tribunal appeals.

A court in Cairo has withheld the appeal filed by the Muslim Brotherhood's defense team challenging the harsh sentences served in the notorious unjust military tribunal of Eng. Khayrat el-Shater and his companions. Sentences ranging from 3-10 years were served to 25 leading and highly ranked leaders from the movement on April 15, 2008. The verdict is expected to be announced Tuesday November 17...

Nazzal: Abbas’s speech vague, unconvincing

Mohammed Nazzal, the member of Hamas’s political bureau, has described Thursday the speech of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas as “vague”, “uncomforting”, and “unconvincing”, adding that the coming days would reveal Abbas’s real intentions...

Zionist court convicts Sheikh Salah and Dr. Aghbarya

A Zionist magistrate's court in Jerusalem, convicted on, Thursday Sheikh Raed Salah and Dr. Sulaiman Aghbarya in relation to the events of Bab al-Magharaba protests back in 2007...

UN General Assembly votes for the Goldstone report

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday evening on a draft resolution submitted by Arab countries and Senegal on the Goldstone report which accuses Israeli of committing war crimes during its war on Gaza...

Maqdisi society exposes Israeli plan to demolish more Palestinian homes in O.J.

The Maqdisi society said on Thursday that it possesses an important document revealing the intention of the Israeli occupation authority to demolish 40 Palestinian homes in the occupied city of Jerusalem by the year end...

Boycott of Islamist movements to Arab leaders' summit in Damascus.

It seems that the Syrian authorities will be facing an embarrassing predicament if the leaders of Sunni Islamist movements insist on boycotting the Arab Leaders summit later this week. Ali Sadr el-Deen al- Bayanouny the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Syria had called on Sunni Islamist movements to boycott the summit in response to earlier shuns by the Syrian authorities. Various movements and leaders including Turkey's Erdogan earlier had begun an initiative advocating a reconciliation between the Syrian Muslim brotherhood (who reluctantly agreed to engage in dialogue) and the Syrian authorities which was ironically ignored by the Syrian regime...

Brown: Asking the wrong questions about Palestinian elections

The hot story this afternoon is that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly threatened to quit during a phone call with Barack Obama, because he sees no chance for peace with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. I doubt anyone believes him, but it sure would shake things up a bit. More analysis will have to wait, because I'm totally snowed under at the moment. But in the meantime, my GW colleague and occasional guest-blogger Nathan Brown has sent in this piece questioning the conventional wisdom (mine included) about the importance of Abu Mazen's call for elections in January...

Ayman Nour blocked from travel

Egyptian opposition politician Ayman Nour said today that state security forces prevented him from flying to the United States. Since finally being released from prison, where he had been placed on trumped-up charges after losing the 2005 Presidential election to Hosni Mubarak, Nour has faced recurrent harrassment and abuse...

Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

The Shabaab movement in Somalia controls large parts of the south and centre of the country, and because officials in this movement embrace the Wahabi ideology they have imposed their views on Somalis by force and have issued strict decrees banning films, plays, dancing at weddings, football matches and all forms of music, even the ring tones on mobile phones...

Did Not I tell You !!??

As I have expected MBs in the parliament are rejecting and fighting Beyonce concert in Port Ghalib this weekend reopening a debate about raising similar issues in the parliament...

A Different Perspective

Professor Wickham addressed an audience including both Midshipmen and USNA faculty members. She narrated her personal research experience in Middle East and especially Egypt...

10 Questions on Combating Violent Extremism

I gave the opening keynote talk to two fascinating conferences this week organized by State Department, which sought to take stock of what might be called the "hearts and minds" part of the struggle against al-Qaeda and associated movements...

Egypt: Eight university students held incommunicado - fears of torture

Egyptian State Security Investigation (SSI) forces arrested eight students on 28 October 2009 on accusations of membership to the Muslim Brotherhood - they were held for three days incommunicado at Zagaziq Police Station and then transferred on 30 October 2009 to Damanhour prison. During the students three days incommunicado detention at Zagaziq Police, they were exposed to ill-treatment and subjected to insults and beatings at the hands of the SSI...

Haneyya thanks Russia, China and India for supporting the Goldstone report

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya on Tuesday expressed his thanks to Russia, China and India for voting in favor of the Goldstone report which accuses Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip...

The ruling NDP demands the confiscating of Brotherhood’s property and the arrest of Akef.

Leaders of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) continued to escalate aggressive attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. Mohamed Abdel Fattah Omar, Under Secretary of Defense and National Security Committee in People's Assembly and leading NDP leader, demanded yesterday during the NDP's final conference to confiscate the brotherhood's funds...

Ashkenazi: Next war on Gaza would include attacks on densely populated areas

Israeli chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi said on Tuesday that Israel’s next battle would be waged also on Gaza Strip and would include confrontations in densely-populated areas...

Miles of Smiles convoy moves by sea route to El-Arish

The government committee against the siege declared that the European medical aid convoy "Miles of Smiles" sent to the Gaza Strip has finally moved from the Egyptian Port Said harbor on Wednesday to El-Arish by sea after Cairo's refusal to allow it to ship its load via land route...