Archive for September 8, 2008

“Israel is struggling with the brain drain, which is slowly eroding the country’s higher education. Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Dan Ben-David has published a study called, ‘Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists’, in which he demonstrates that the country’s scholarly emigration rate is 4-6 times higher than other Western countries.”

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

Biden on AIPAC (thanks Dick)

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“The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after refugees, reports that at least “82 children, including 21 UNRWA students won’t be going back to school. They were killed this year, victims of the violence that frames daily life here for children: 76 were killed in the conflict with Israel and six in intra-Palestinian [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“In a separate development on Sunday, a car belonging to Future MP Ahmad Fatfat was reportedly attacked with sticks and stones in the Northern village of Bakhaoun in Dinniyeh. A report by the National News Agency said that the attack escalated into an exchange of gunfire.” (thanks Toufic)

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“Seven Egyptian women talk about their experience of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. It is an increasingly common problem, with a recent survey suggesting more than four out of five women have been sexually harassed, while nearly two-thirds of men admitted assaulting women.” This news story should have ended thus: are we not [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“”If you suggest elections to the Saudis or to King Abdullah of Jordan they will refuse, as they regard democracy as a new religion and they want to remain Muslims.” (thanks Jonathan)

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Indian-Israeli military co-operation. (thanks Rakia)

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“Gordon Kromberg, assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, to testify before a grand jury in another case, in violation of the terms of the plea bargain al-Arian’s lawyers had made and in a transparent attempt at entrapment. Kromberg has made bigoted remarks about Muslims and railed against what he mysteriously referred to [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“Jonathan Steele reports on children as young as nine being kept in appalling conditions in prison in Baghdad”

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“Statistics on obesity in Iraq are difficult to come by, but a World Health Organization survey in 2006 found that 26% of men and 38% of women ages 25 to 65 were obese, with a body mass index of 30 or higher. Though no direct comparisons are available, roughly 33% of American men and 35% [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“To the villagers here, there is no doubt what happened in an American airstrike on Aug. 22: more than 90 civilians, the majority of them women and children, were killed. The Afghan government, human rights and intelligence officials, independent witnesses and a United Nations investigation back up their account, pointing to dozens of freshly dug [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad

“Of a war that has cost more than 4,100 American lives, left an additional 30,000 seriously wounded and killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, Ms. Rice says: “There are a lot of things if I could go back and do them differently, I would. But the one I would not do differently is, we should [...]

Posted on September 8, 2008 by As'ad