Statement of President Barack Obama on Egypt
February 10, 2011
The Egyptian people have been told that there was a transition of authority, but it is not yet clear that this transition is immediate, meaningful or sufficient. Too many Egyptians remain unconvinced that the government is serious about a genuine transition to democracy, and it is the responsibility of the government to speak clearly to the Egyptian people and the world. The Egyptian government must put forward a credible, concrete and unequivocal path toward genuine democracy, and they have not yet seized that opportunity. Read more
In the Middle East, a Catch-22 for the CIA
By David Ignatius
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The CIA uses the term “liaison” to describe its contacts with foreign intelligence services. And in Arab capitals such as Tunis, Cairo and Amman, these relationships can be so seductively beneficial that they limit the CIA’s ability to run its own “unilateral” operations to learn what’s going on inside the host country.
This conundrum – how to work with your hosts and also spy on them – is one of the difficulties facing the CIA as it tries to understand the youth revolution spreading across the Middle East. The agency has cultivated its relationships with people such as Gen. Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s chief of intelligence and now vice president, but it has not done as well understanding the world of the protesters. Read more
Book Released: Occupation of the Territories-Israeli Soldier testimonies 2000-2010
Marking the tenth anniversary since the outbreak of the Second Intifada, Breaking the Silence releases a new publication: “Occupation of the Territories – Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010”
Breaking the Silence is releasing a new publication, titled “Occupation of the Territories – Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010”, as part of the organization’s wider goal of increasing Read more
The Drunken Truth
The Drunken Truth
By Nidal Sakr*
Once upon a time, a man sat helpless, watching the news, reading papers, tuning his car radio to what was going on in his world. As millions of others, he witnessed carnage where scores of families, children and women, were blasted in both darkness of the night and light of the day. The massacre was perpetrated by none other than the brand-name of savagery for the last seventy-some years, so-called “Israel.” Read more
أفكار أولية في هندسة التغيير
صياغة أولية لوثيقة إستراتيجية في هندسة التغيير و الثورات تم التقدم بها لبعض القوى الشبابية للتغيير في مصر صيف 2010، بناء على طلبهم. على الرغم من أهمية الوثيقة و تطابقها مع مجريات الأحداث التي تلتها بشهور قليلة، لا بد من التأكيد على أن الثورة المصرية ثورة شعبية و عفوية بكل المقاييس لعب فيها، بتقديري، الجانب التخطيطي و التنظيمي دوراً يكاد يكون معدوماً في مجريات الأحداث التي أعقبت موعد المظاهرات المصادف لعيد قومي كما أشارت الوثيقة، و معدوم تماماً فيما يتعلق بنجاج الثورة و إسقاط النظام من خلال الإعتصام، و في إعادة بناء الدولة الذي نحن بصدده Read more
