There really is a magic bullet that can make sure Egypt’s revolution triumphs, discovers Eric Walberg
The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was launched at the
Journalists’ Union 31 October, with a colourful panel of speakers,
including Al-Ahram Centre for Political & Strategic Studies
Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Al-Naggar, Independent Trade Union head Kamal Abu Eita, legendary anti-corruption crusader Khaled Ali, and the head of
the Tunisia twin campaign Dr Fathi Chamkhi.
Middle East
Egypt and the IMF: ‘Topple their debts’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
BDS update: Erdogan ‘Why no UN sanctions for Israel?’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
BDS update: Erdogan ‘Why no UN sanctions for Israel?’
With
the
new campaign by Palestine to gain the world’s official recognition 63
years after the fact, BDS activities in Europe and North America -- the
main holdouts -- have gained new momentum, reports Eric Walberg
The Boycott, Divests and Sanctions (BDS) movement is growing relentless. On the boycott front, Natacha Atlas,
Al-Awlaki: ‘Mowing the grass’ in Yemen
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Radical Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, the victim of assassination by US forces 30 September, was born in New Mexico in 1971, educated at Colorado State University in engineering, and radicalised while preaching in US mosques and visiting Afghanistan in the 1990s. His sermons attracted a large following, first in Denver and then San Diego, where he completed a Masters in education.
Though in the FBI’s sites from 1999, he became a media star after 9/11, interviewed by National Geographic and the New York Times as a moderate, articulate American Muslim. He condemned the attacks, stating ”There is no way that the people who did this could be Muslim, and if they claim to be Muslim, then they have perverted their religion.” On IslamOnline.net six days after the 9/11 attacks, he suggested that Israeli intelligence agents might have been responsible, and that the FBI “went into the roster of the airplanes, and whoever has a Muslim or Arab name became the hijacker by default”.
Turkey redraws Sykes-Picot
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
A new Bermuda Triangle has been spotted, but this one is in the eastern Mediterranean -- between Turkey, Cyprus and Israel, observes Eric Walberg
Turkey’s foreign policy shift is now in full gear. Having kicked out the Israeli ambassador and rejected the UN Palmer Report, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that Turkey plans to take its case against Israel’s blockade of Gaza to the International Court of Justice, not alone, but with the support of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the African Union. “The process will probably reach a certain point in October and we will make our application.”
Israel’s refusal to say “I apologise” has already proved to be very expensive, and will continue to reverberate, not just in the hollow halls of the ICC, but off the shores of Israel itself, as Turkish warships accompany flotillas breaking the siege, and when Turkey begins drilling for gas in waters that Greek Cyprus and Israel have their eyes on. It will echo when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who US International Trade Undersecretary Francisco Sanchez said was “like a rock star”, crosses the Rafah border to visit Gaza. No one can mistake Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias for Elton John.
BDS update: Buttressing an independent Palestine
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Palestine’s move to become an independent state has benefitted from the
growing BDS movement, as the world wakes up the enormous and unjust
suffering of the Palestinian people, writes Eric Walberg
A new Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched this
summer by the United Church of Canada, which will try to persuade six
companies operating in Canada — Caterpillar, Motorola, Ahava, Veolia,
Elbit Systems and Chapters/Indigo — to stop supporting the Israeli
occupation. “The Campaign follows similar campaigns launched some time
ago by the US Presbyterian Church and the New England Conference of the
United Methodist Church. We have launched ‘Occupied with Peace’ after
almost two years of discernment and information gathering,” says
spokesperson Jean Lee.
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