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Walking Like Egyptians – President Morsi Provokes Return to Tahrir Square

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Egypt, Middle East

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My prediction: the story may be underplayed today — the above is the most recent clip I could find on YouTube (I’m still looking forward to the day when Facebook or “buddies” share their cell phone feeds with me directly) — and it will get large.

Shortly after his election, Egyptian President Morsi stepped off with a libel launched at Israel, professing to uphold Egypt’s treaty with Israel while accusing Israel of violating its terms many times (not true, I’m happy to report — the clip may be found embedded with this BackChannels piece: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2012/09/28/fb-a-note-on-gellers-poster/).

Remember: evil begins with a lie.

Sometimes it is a small lie, something not-quite-right slipped into a sentence (“Everybody knows that . . . . .”); sometimes, it is large lie and (everybody knows that) the Martian American Zionist European Kaffir Imperialists are the source of all evil (plus monsoons, floods, earthquakes, colds and flue) everywhere in the universe.

Oddly enough, for lack of intellectual armoring or rigor, for misplaced or misdirected loyalties, perhaps for money — business, loot, patronage — people buy the worst lies, believing, hoping, perhaps, that their lives will get better if only something other than themselves were changed in relation to themselves and their environment.

Such misguided faith never works but leads always to greater suffering (a favorite, most convenient, and rather clinical and neutral example: Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, a dictatorship that got its start with a just complaint but then kept going and going and going with a big mouth, patronage, and thugs) and, inevitably, a lot of people who want to leave or promote revolution, usually both.

Morsi has so far done what dictators may be expected to do, including replacing the  generals he inherited, but who knows who’s loose in the junior officer’s corps — or elsewhere in the country.

Reference

November 27, 2012

Associated Press.  “Egyptians gather at Tahrir for anti-Morsi protest.”  Bloomberg Business Week, November 27, 2012.

Bradley, Matt and Sam Dagher.  “Thousands in Cairo Rally Against President’s Decree.”  The Wall Street Journal, November 27, 2012.

CNN.  “Power Grab in Egypt?”  Video featuring Robin Wright and Stephen Farrell.  November 27, 2012.

Lynch, Sarah.  “Massive Cairo protests threaten Muslim Brotherhood rule.”  USA Today, November 27, 2012.

Pearson, Michael.  “Protesters to Morsy: Roll back your decree or leave.”  CNN, November 27, 2012.

November 26, 2012

BBC.  “Egypt crisis: Mohammed Mursi tries to defuse tension.”  November 26, 2012.

The Guardian.  “Egyptians clash after Muslim Brotherhood teenager killed — video.” November 26, 2012.

El Menawy, Abdel Latif.  “Is Egypt heading down the same road as Iran?” Twitlonger, November 26, 2012.

Hussein, Abdel-Rahman.  “Egyptian protests over Mohamed Morsi degree expected to draw thousands.”  The Guardian, November 26, 2012.

Trager, Eric.  “Shame on Anyone Who Ever Thought Mohammad Morsi Was a Moderate.”  November 26, 2012.

November 25, 2012

Associated Press.  “Egypt protesters storm Muslim Brotherhood headquarters.”  CBC News, November 25, 2012.

Associated Press.  “Egypt’s stock market plummets after Morsi’s decree.”  USA Today, November 25, 2012.

Fleishman, Jeffrey and Reem Abdellatif.  “Egypt stock exchange falls, protesters converge on Tahrir Square.”  Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2012.

November 24, 2012

Associated Press.  “Egypt judges urge strike after Morsi widens powers: Democracy advocate El Baradei warns of military involvement.”  CBC News, November 24, 2012.

November 23, 2012

CNN Wire Staff.  “Egyptian opposition united in anger over Morsy’s new powers.”  CNN, November 23, 2012.

November 22, 2012

Associated Press.  “Egypt’s Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers.”  Politico.  November 22, 2012.

CBS Evening News Reporter Charlie D’Agata: “Hamas will tell you that is absolutely not the case, but we know it is the case.”

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Israel, Middle East

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Italics, mine, added for emphasis.

My transcription: faithful, if hurried.

Scott Pelley, Anchor, CBS Evening News: “The Israelis say that civilians are being killed because Hamas militants are hiding among the civilians.  What have you seen?”

Charlie D’Agata, CBS Journalists in Gaza City: “Hamas will tell you that that is absolutely not the case, but we know it is the case.  The attack on the tv tower today, they were aiming at a person from the Islamic Jihad.  People from that group had to admit that, yes indeed, that person was hiding among journalists.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57552893/work-stress-and-death-in-gaza-city/

The quotes noted picks up in the second minute (2:00).  D’Agata goes on to say more about Hamas’s use of human shields.

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Gaza 2012 – Light Background

15 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by commart in BCND - BackChannels News Day, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Israel, Middle East

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Coming home from work?

The diner dinner?

Catch up.

Every conflict — and now every battle — is a little different.  About an hour ago, a CNN clip shows a conversation between two citizen-reporter residents, one in Gaza, the other in Israel, both in the combat area and both reporting and addressing the conflict: “Let’s agree on one thing.  Let’s get this game of who is the victim and victimizer out of the way, so we can talk about more substantial issues,” says Mohammed Sulaiman, a resident of Gaza.

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2012/11/15/nr-life-in-gaza-strip-seshay-intv.cnn.html.

Also watched shortly before publishing this post: http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2012/11/15/brooke-israel-vs-hamas.cnn.html

Also, much in reference comes from bookmarks, not today’s news, much less “breaking news”; however, being so, it too tells a story within today’s story. Incidental rocket fire from Gaza never stopped after “Cast Lead” (2009); the Hamas government itself has been in the proverbial doghouse with the human rights groups for some time (and reports of “confessions” obtained through torture seem common); the use of civilian centers for arms caches and even children’s playgrounds for launch sites seems to have been and to have remained a part of Hamas doctrine, essentially calling in return fire on, across, or through innocents.

Reference

Akram, Fares.  “Rights Group Criticizes Hamas-Run Justice System in Gaza.”  The New York Times, October 3, 2012: “Hamas should stop the kinds of abuses that Egyptians, Syrians and others in the region have risked their lives to bring to an end.” / A number of Hamas officials disrupted the news conference, challenging Human Rights Watch’s work and barely allowing journalists time to ask questions.”

CBN News.  “Palestinians Escalate Rocket Attacks on Israel.”  November 12, 2012: “JERUSALEM, Israel — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with more than 75 rockets and mortar shells in a 24-hour period. At least eight of them were longer-range missiles . . . The latest escalation came after terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli army jeep patrolling near the Karni border crossing early Saturday evening, injuring four soldiers, two seriously and two moderately.”

Chesler, Phyllis.  “Op-Ed: What a Wonderful People! and What a Cynical World!”  Arutz Sheva, November 15, 2012.

CNN.  “Blasts Interrupt Interview in Gaza.”  November 15, 2012.

Heller, Jeffrey.  “Israel hits back after Hamas launches cross-border rocket attacks.”  National Post, October 25, 2012.

Human Rights Watch.  “Gaza: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, Unfair Trials.”  October 3, 2012.  Report download page: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/10/03/abusive-system-0

IDF Blog.  “Would You Raise Your Child in This Neighborhood?”  November 15, 2012.  “. . . Imagine raising your children in a neighborhood where terrorists shoot rockets from the local playground.”

Khazan, Olga.  “Israeli army drops warning leaflets on Gaza.”  November 15, 2012.

Mughrabi, Nidal-al.  “Rockets hit near Tel Aviv as Gaza death toll rises.”  Reuters, November 15, 2012.

Lappin, Yaakov, JPost Staff, Reuters.  “IAF strike kills Hamas military chief Jabari.”  The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2012.

Ostrovsky, Arsen.  “My Country is Under Attack.  Do You Care?”  The Huffington Post, October 24, 2012.

Ronen, Gil.  “Israel Air Force Ready for 2nd Assault: 70 Rocket Sites in Gaza.”  Phillip Pasmanick’s Israel and Stuff, November 15, 2012.

Sterling, Joe.  “Hamas justice system ‘reeks of injustice,’ rights groups says.”  CNN, October 3, 2012.

STRATFOR.  “Israeli Airstrike Kills Hamas Military Commander (raw footage of aftermath).  YouTube, November 14, 2012.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.  “The Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip Continues Inculcating Kindergarten Children with Support for Terrorism and Hatred of Israel.”  June 13, 2012.

Tobin, Jonathan S.  “No Alternative to Israeli Self-Defense.”  Commentary, November 15, 2012: Lead — “To its credit, yesterday the State Department rightly declared that Hamas was responsible for the latest round of violence along the Gaza border and that Israel had the right to defend itself. Even the New York Times editorial page affirmed that Israel had that right this morning. But the Times, speaking as it does for liberal conventional wisdom, claimed that Israel’s government was wrong to exercise that right.”  Tobin will go on to debunk that notion.

Wikipedia.  “List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2012”: “As of October 2012, over 800 rockets had been launched at Israel from Gaza since January 2012”.

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Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

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