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Bingo...

News from The Associated Press

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[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

Bingo...

News from The Associated Press

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deja vu all over again Nostradamus.... you would appear to be applauding the Muslim Brotherhood and expansion of their dominance and influence.....Bingo!


CBS- Riding high on U.S. and international praise for mediating a Gaza cease-fire, Mohammed Morsi put himself above oversight and gave protection to the Islamist-led assembly writing a new constitution from a looming threat of dissolution by court order.

But the move is likely to fuel growing public anger that he and his Muslim Brotherhood are seizing too much power.


Nov 23,
Rallies for, against Egypt president's new powers

CAIRO (AP) -- Demonstrators for and against sweeping new powers assumed by Egypt's Islamist president are gathering in different parts of Cairo, a clear show of the deep polarization plaguing the country.

President Mohammed Morsi's decree puts himself above the judiciary and also exempts the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from judicial review. Liberal and secular members earlier walked out of the body, charging it would impose strict Islamic practices.

..Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree
By Marwa Awad | Reuters – 15 hours ago..

Presented as a move to "protect the revolution", the decree won immediate praise from Mursi's allies but stoked fears among secular-minded Egyptians that the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies aim to dominate the new Egypt.

Leading liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei, writing on his Twitter account, said Mursi had "usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh".


Nov 22,

Egypt Brotherhood leader blasts peace with Israel

CAIRO(AP) -- The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday - one day after the country's president, who hails from the movement, mediated a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians to end eight days of fierce fighting.

"The enemy knows nothing but the language of force," said Mohammed Badie. "Be aware of the game of grand deception with which they depict peace accords," he said in a statement carried on the group's website and emailed to reporters.

Nov. 16th
Arriving in Gaza Friday, Prime Minister Kandil pledged his country’s support for the Palestinian people. He called for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, according to the Times of Israel:

“Egypt after the revolution will work toward an extended calm, and afterwards for the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. That is the only way to achieve stability in the region,” says Kandil.

The Egyptian prime minister urged all Palestinian factions to unite. “The strength of the Palestinan people lies in its unity. That is the way to achieve victory,” he says.

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"What did Hamas hope to gain from this latest round of fighting, which it started with a barrage of about 150 rockets into Israel? To formally translate Hamas’s recent strategic gains into a new, more favorable status quo with Israel. It works like this:

Hamas’s new strength comes from two sources. First, its new rocketry, especially the Fajr-5, smuggled in from Iran, that can now reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, putting 50 percent of Israel’s population under its guns.

Second, Hamas has gained strategic strength from changes in the regional environment. It has acquired the patronage and protection of important Middle Eastern states as a result of the Arab Spring and the Islamist reversal in Turkey.

For 60 years, non-Arab Turkey had been a reliable ally of Israel. The vicious turnaround instituted by its Islamist prime minister, Recep Erdogan, reached its apogee on Monday when he called Israel a terrorist state.

Egypt is now run by Hamas’s own mother organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is simply the Palestinian wing. And the emir of Qatar recently visited Gaza, leaving behind a promise of a cool $400 million."

Why Was There War in Gaza? - National Review Online


"I actually see this as constructive.

Post Arab Spring it will be events like this that lead to solutions."

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Originally Posted by scottw

Why Was There War in Gaza? - National Review Online

Even for Kraut this is pretty out there.

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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

Even for Kraut this is pretty out there.

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Spence--You do realize that have said nothing meaningful here . . . "out there"? Where? Is there any "there" there in your comment? PLEASE ELUCIDATE!

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Originally Posted by detbuch

Spence--You do realize that have said nothing meaningful here . . . "out there"? Where? Is there any "there" there in your comment? PLEASE ELUCIDATE!

The substance was in the nuance, please try and follow along.

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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

The substance was in the nuance, please try and follow along.

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Good point. My pedestrian mind that hankers too much for specifics finds it hard to follow along with meandering nuances. Oh, did you follow along with the nuance of my question about whether there was a "there" there in your nuance about Kraut. Perhaps you were meandering along about the out thereness of that tasty string-like sour cabbage. That can be far out stuff depending on what you had smoked before you ate it. Or maybe you had comparative visions of Germanic, Nazi-like, allusions lingering "out there" in the hammer's article. I try to follow along, but sometimes your nuances are so far out there that I cannot reach out far enough to grasp them. My problem, not your's. But keep in mind, a great mind such as yours may sometimes find it difficult to communicate nuances to the more simple-minded among us.