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February 6, 2011

After Anti-Islam Dictatorship, Tunisians Prepare for Elections

The Tunisia Constitutional Council on January 15 officially announced that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has permanently left the office of the president after his flight from the country in the face of mass protests. Tunisians had overtaken government buildings demanding the resignation of the president, with his intention not to run for a sixth term of office.
The leader of the lower house of parliament, Foued Mebezza, is assuming until elections are held in two months, as reported by Maureen Cosgrove of Jurist.

February 12, 2010

Israeli Defense Industry Expands Sale of Drones

The Jerusalem Post reports that "while Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can." At the end of January, NATO members: Australia, Germany, Spain, France and Canada began "operating unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central Asian country," wrote JP's Yaakov Katz.

December 1, 2009

Europe's Identity Crisis: A Growing anti-Muslim Sentiment throughout Europe

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get a grip on reality. The world, including France, is a complex, multifaceted and fascinatingly diverse place; it cannot be co-opted to fit national specificities determined by a group of irritable far right racists with a distorted interpretation of themselves and others.

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get a grip on reality.