Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Egypt, Gaza, gaza Strip, guerilla warfare, Hamas, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Zionism, Zionist
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11 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
While Israel fervently attempts to terrorize the Palestinians into submission in Gaza, many observers have started to wonder why Hizballah has refrained from stepping in militarily to assist its brothers-in-arms, Hamas. Such musings fail to take account of the constraints on Hizballah’s room for action, as well as the circumstances under which Hizballah would ignore such constraints. The question that should be posed is not so much if Hizballah will act, but when.
As things currently stand, Hizballah is not in a position to directly help Hamas militarily by opening a new front with Israel. In the first place, Hizballah and its supporters have only recently recovered from the devastating impact of Israel’s war against them in July 2006. A Hizballah offensive against (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: al-Arish, al-Badeel, Arab Foreign Ministers, Arab League, Cairo University, Daily News Egypt, Downtown Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian President, Egyptian Protests, Egyptians, Exports to Israel, Fatah, Gaza, Gaza Stirp, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, IDF, Israel, Israeli Ambassador, Israeli Massacre, Israeli War, Isreali Military, Liberation of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Muslim Brotherhood, Natural Gas, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian resistance, Palestinians, PIGS, Police Repression, Racism, Racist, Rafah border, Riot Police, Sinai, State Repression, Tagammu Party, Tahrir Square, White Supremacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist State, Zionist Terror
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5 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population. Last Wednesday, the state responded with a major crackdown in which tens of protestors and journalists were assaulted and arrested.
Around the Arab world, the Egyptian regime has been a target of severe criticism for its continuing role in the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip and its silence in the face of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave. Last Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to the criticism by announcing in a televised speech that the Rafah border crossing will remain closed until the Palestinian Authority led by president Mahmoud Abbas regains control of the Gaza strip — a statement that only strengthened the impression that Mubarak approves of the (more…)
