Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
19th April, 2012
In a statement released Wednesday, 34 different political groups, mostly amongst the youth, condemned the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, blaming them for blocking the path of the revolution. While SCAF has been long the target of the revolutionary movement, the statement openly criticised the Brotherhood, a group that was initially considered part of the wider opposition movement.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
21st March, 2012
The Egyptian Ambassador to Occupied Palestinian Territories Yasser Othman has announced that the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip will be connected to Egypt’s power grid within the next four to five months.
In a Wednesday interview with Saudi Arabian newspaper, Al-Sharq, Othman said that Egypt and Gaza would start work on connecting their power grids within a few weeks.
“This will lead to a real relief for the deepening crisis in the Gaza Strip,” he said.
He explained that the plan to end Gaza’s power crisis was a two-phased one.
During the first phase, Egypt will supply diesel to Gaza’s sole power plant and in the next one, which will take 18 months to complete, Gaza will be connected to a regional power grid in Egypt.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, causing a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The full-scale land, aerial, and naval siege has turned the enclave into the world’s largest open-air prison.
In mid-February, Egypt blocked the flow of diesel through the tunnels lying beneath its border with Gaza, which are used to transfer supplies into the impoverished coastal sliver amid the siege.
The stoppage forced the territory’s sole electricity power plant out of work, causing the enclave to start experiencing blackouts of up to 18 hours a day.
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
22nd February, 2012
A flotilla of Iranian warships crossed the Suez Canal and docked at the Syrian port of Tartus on Saturday.
Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the mission displays Iran’s “might” despite 30 years of relentless sanctions.
The flotilla comprised the 18th Fleet of the Iranian navy. The warships would hold exercises and will “train Syrian naval forces under an agreement signed between Tehran and Damascus one year ago”.
The influential cleric and deputy chairman of the Majlis’ (parliament’s” National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Hossein Ebrahimi said:
“The presence of Iran and Russia’s flotillas along the Syrian coasts has a clear message against the United States’ possible adventurism. In case of any US strategic mistake in Syria, there is a possibility that Iran, Russia and a number of other countries will give a crushing response to the US.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2012
US lacks a champion in the new Egypt: AP analysis
17th February, 2012
The U.S. is losing old friends and can’t win new ones in the new Egypt.
Trying to secure a way home for seven American democracy experts trapped in the country, the Obama administration is facing a wrathful campaign of retribution from Hosni Mubarak’s old allies of the dictatorship, which the U.S. long supported but then turned away from last year.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2012
20th January, 2012
Una gran concentración popular ha tenido lugar en El Cairo para exigir al gobierno que cierre inmediatamente la embajada de la tiranía feudal de Qatar y su expulsión de la Liga Árabe.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
Samer Soliman
13th January, 2012
The criticism I will make about the positions and ideas of some revolutionary comrades is well-intentioned and not born of malice. It aims to improve the performance of reformist and revolutionary trends to overcome unnecessary divisions, in order to reach the common goal of establishing a state rooted in freedom, social justice, dignity and humanity.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2011
28th December, 2011
Egypt may join Russia’s probe into the deaths of peaceful Libyans killed by NATO air strikes during its military campaign, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said on Wednesday.
“We are considering this issue and consulting with [our] Russian colleagues and will make a decision after the consultations,” Amr said after a meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Last week, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin urged NATO to investigate civilian deaths in Libya from its bombing campaign, saying the alliance’s claim that there were no civilian casualties was untrue.
His remarks came after The New York Times claimed up to 70 people were killed in Libya during NATO’s eight-month military operation.
Churkin said he has asked NATO to give “a definitive report” to the UN Security Council summing up its activities in Libya. But he said “unfortunately” the alliance only provided “piecemeal, rather perfunctory reports… (that) were not very informative.”
The international NATO-led military operation in Libya began on March 19, two days after the approval of a UN resolution on “targeted measures” to protect civilians.
Libya saw almost ten months of fierce fighting before the opposition Libyan National Transitional Council established control over the country’s territory.
Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in October near his hometown of Sirte after being captured by NTC forces.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2011
29th August, 2011
Egyptian people have gathered in front of the Saudi embassy in the capital city of Cairo to protest Riyadh’s interference in their country’s internal affairs.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2011
21st August, 2011
A young Egyptian protester has hauled down the Israeli flag at Tel Aviv’s embassy in the capital city of Cairo, replacing it with Egypt’s flag.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011
27th June, 2011
Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Yehiya al-Gamal has blamed the United States and Israel for being engaged in efforts to incite a religious strife to weaken the African country.
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Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2011
Whilst Western analysts, in general, continue to a present a distorted view of the Arab Revolution, it is important to look to the analysis coming out of the Arab world itself to gain insight into what is happening. This overview by one of Egypt’s leading political thinkers is, in this respect, indispensable.
Samir Amin
16th June, 2011
The year 2011 began with a series of shattering, wrathful explosions from the Arab peoples. Is this springtime the inception of a second ‘awakening of the Arab world?’ Or will these revolts bog down and finally prove abortive – as was the case with the first episode of that awakening, which was evoked in my book L’Eveil du Sud (Paris: Le temps des cerises, 2008). If the first hypothesis is confirmed, the forward movement of the Arab world will necessarily become part of the movement to go beyond imperialist capitalism on the world scale. Failure would keep the Arab world in its current status as a submissive periphery, prohibiting its elevation to the rank of an active participant in shaping the world.
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