Watch This.

Delicious links for February 9th through February 19th:

• The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons - "The Arabs gave Europeans their ideological and intellectual identity - indeed, Lyons suggests, “the West” itself is a Muslim invention. "
• Gaza After the War: Egypt's Equities and Limitations - Congressional testimony about Egypt's role in the Gaza war at last week's House Subcommittee hearing on the Gaza war.

  "The aftermath of the Gaza crisis affords some opportunities for the United States and Egypt to strengthen ties, which have been strained in recent years due to disagreements over U.S. actions in the Middle East as well as human and civil rights violations in Egypt."

• Breaking news: Barack Obama, Soviet mole - Salon.com - At least he's not a Muslim…or wait, maybe he's a Muslim Soviet Mole?
• NYT Op-Ed - Why the Muslim World Can’t Hear Obama - Alaa Aswany - "Here in Egypt, we don’t have previous or future presidents, only the present head of state who seized power through sham elections and keeps it by force, and who will probably remain in power until the end of his days."

Delicious links for February 9th:

• AP: Egyptian women, some men, fight sexual harassment - 3amar ya masr: "I was standing in a crowded Metro (train) and he grabbed my butt. I turned around, and he was smiling. I pushed him and started crying. Nobody did anything. I felt alone and I was scared," said 16-year-old Hadeer Amr Ibrahim."
• Op-Ed: Time for Israel Advocacy 2.0 - "On Google Earth, sophisticated Palestinian 2.0 advocates have tagged many Israeli towns and cities with their Arabic names."
• Jackson Diehl - A Promise of War - "After Netanyahu's first meeting with President Bill Clinton, Ross wrote, "Clinton observed: 'He thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires.' " "

• Turkish PM storms off in Gaza row
  "Mr Erdogan clashed with Shimon Peres in a discussion on the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, telling him: 'You are killing people.' "
  (tags: israel warongaza palestine turkey)
• John Esposito: Obama Must Transcend Israeli/Palestinian Divisions
  "The Obama administration will have to transcend America's policy of "Israeli Exceptionalism," privileging Israeli interests. A more even-handed policy would require that Israel as well as HAMAS and the Palestinians be held to the same standards to respect and comply with international law and U.N. resolutions. A more balanced and credible approach will begin to restore America's image in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Obama will also have to avoid a legacy of political engineering (a preference for putting in and or supporting our guy to elections) that predates George W. Bush but was also adopted by his administration in countries like Iraq and backfired in Palestine."
  (tags: israel palestine obama us)
• Jewish organizational leaders meeting with Obama
  Meeting between then President-Elect Obama and Jewish leaders with any documentation of what was discussed conspicuously missing. Only a list of names are present on the page, while most other meetings on the site mention what was discussed and include some sort of documentation.
  (tags: obama)

• International Writers and Scholars Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel | The Progressive
  "We reject as false Israel's characterization of its military attacks on Gaza as retaliation. Israel's latest assault on Gaza is part of its longtime racist jurisprudence against its indigenous Palestinian population, during which the Israeli state has systematically dispossessed, starved, tortured, and economically exploited the Palestinian people. "
  (tags: israel warongaza palestine)
• Obama interview with Al Arabiya
  Full transcript of Obama's interview with Al Arabiya. If he wanted to reach most Arab viewers, he should've gone with AlJazeera.
  (tags: obama media arabs arabmedia)
• Who Profits from the Occupation?
  Website tracking who profits from Israeli occupation
  (tags: israel palestine)

• Israel Must Stop Fanning the Flames That Will Consume Us - washingtonpost.com
  "But as the magnitude of the killing and the devastation has become apparent to all, perhaps Israeli society will, for a brief moment, put its sophisticated mechanisms of repression and self-righteousness on hold. And then perhaps a lesson of some sort will be etched into the Israeli consciousness. Maybe then we will finally understand something deep and fundamental — that our conduct here in this region has, for a long time, been flawed, immoral and unwise."
  (tags: warongaza israel palestine)
• VirtualGaza | Break the Information Blockade
  Gaza residents report on their experiences during and after the latest war through this online project. This is a civic movement that attempts to counter the overwhelming media bias against Palestinians in the US.
  (tags: palestine palestinians)
• 60 Minutes Video on Israel/Palestine
  In a rare move by a primetime US news program, 60 Minutes highlights some of what everyday Palestinians put up with under the occupation. Nothing new here except that this is a program with a big following and is considered mainstream media in the US. Could this mean the War on Gaza has shifted US media's view on the Israeli-Palestinian issue? One can only hope.
  (tags: israel palestine palestinians)

This is a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes that aired earlier this evening. This is one of the most watched shows in the US, and some of the realities revealed here will come as complete shock to some in the US. There is an especially eye-opening part where the 60 Minutes crew tries to go into a Palestinian house that has been taken over by Israeli soldiers. This is all in the West Bank, not Gaza.

Naturally, CBS will get a lot of heat for this, so take a minute to thank them here.

• Mark Regev on Channel 4
  When pushed to answer if Israel used illegal weapons in Gaza, Mark Regev gets annoyed. Regev: "How do you know that some of these injuries weren't caused by Hamas munitions?"
  (tags: warongaza israel propoganda markregev video)
• Wanted: Ehud Barak מבוקש: אהוד ברק
  Israeli activists create a website calling for Israeli leaders to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  (tags: israel warongaza warcrimes ehudbarak)
• LRB · Henry Siegman: Israel’s Lies
  "In other words, when Jews target and kill innocent civilians to advance their national struggle, they are patriots. When their adversaries do so, they are terrorists."
  (tags: israel palestine palestinians)

• Seth Freedman: Firefighters turned their hoses on a peaceful anti-war protester last week. Their attitude demonstrates a negative shift in public opinion | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  "It wasn't seeing a soldier get scared and shoot into a crowd, but rather seeing a girl sitting in her house and getting shot by a stray bullet. And then, when she needed to be transferred to a Cairo hospital, the Shabak officers saying only she could cross, and no one else. A 12-year-old girl, in a vegetative state, and they wouldn't even let her mother accompany her. That is the banality of evil."
  (tags: israel, palestine, warongaza palestinians,)