Thak you - Aba!

Bulgarian Jews

The Jews in Bulgaria (1941-1944)

Sephardic Jews Call for Truth on Bulgaria's Role in Holocaust

Removal of all the monuments in the Bulgarian forest in Israel

The former Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Blagovest Sendov, and a group of four other "intellectuals" (among which a Bulgarian of Jewish descent - Angel Vagenstein) commit an act aimed against Bulgaria. They send a letter to the Israeli President asking for the removal of the monuments of all those who acted to save the Bulgarian Jews. The monuments to be removed are: HM Boris III and HM Queen Giovanna, Dimitar Peshev (Deputy of the parliament at that time), the Bulgarian Patriarch and the Bulgarian people.

The Jewish National Fund decides to appoint a commission to decide the future of the memorials. A press-release is issued.

Articles in the Bulgarian newspapers. Bulgarians and Jews of Bulgarian descent oppose the move and voice their concern that the monuments will be removed from the Bulgarian forest in Jerusalem:

Declaration of the Union of Democratic Forces condemning the deed of Blagovest Sendov

Via E-mail (Dr. Paul Münch)

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Olimpics 2012

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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded to the letter he received from International Olympic Committee President, Jacques Rogge rejecting his request to hold a minute silence in memory of the members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972 during the upcoming London Olympic Games.

Why?

Coz - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday he was keen to attend the 2012 London Olympics to support his country's athletes but he will not stand up during the minute silence in memory of the Zionist athletes.

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London 2012 Olympics: http://goo.gl/qs5TY

IOC brokers deal between Palestine and Israel over training facilities for Games

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WTF is wrong with the Gaza Strip?

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MoMo

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My new Groupie

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May 17, 2012   
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Mohammed Morsi

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Subject: Pew poll of Egyptians:

61%:32 Annul treaty with Israel,

61%:21% U.S. economic aid has negative impact
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:  Note the negative perception of US aid.]
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Q74 Do you think Egypt should maintain its peace treaty with Israel or

do you think Egypt should annul its peace treaty with Israel?
Maintain treaty 32 - Annul treaty 61 - DK/Refused 7
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QEGY1 Overall, would you say U.S. economic aid to Egypt is having a

mostly positive impact, a mostly negative impact, or no impact on the way things are going in Egypt?
Mostly positive 21 - Mostly negative 61 - No impact 17 - DK/Refused 1
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     See the rest here -   http://goo.gl/q61Th   (PDF)       

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"Ahlan Wa Sahlan"?

Egypt ready to do battle

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2h ago -

IDF paratroopers operating near Nitzana (Israel - Egypt border), opened fire on infiltrators wounding 2 .

Egypt Revolution Death Toll: 841 Killed.

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Dear Mr. Davutoglu

Support Turkey's Opposition to
Israeli Participation in NATO Summit

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The Republic of Turkey has objected to the participation of the government of Israel in the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, citing the Israeli government's failure to apologize or make restitution for its deadly raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in 2010, which killed Turkish citizens and an American citizen.

Join us in supporting the Republic of Turkey's position by signing the petition below.

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Ahmet Davutoglu
Foreign Minister
Republic of Turkey

Dear Mr. Davutoglu:

We write to express our support for the opposition of the Republic of Turkey to the participation of the Israeli government in the upcoming NATO meeting in Chicago

("Turkey says Israel not welcome at NATO summit,")

As you have noted, the Israeli government has neither apologized nor made restitution for its deadly assault on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in which Turkish citizens and an American citizen were killed. Nor has the Israeli government yet been held to account for the assault by the international community. Allowing the Israeli government to participate in the Chicago meeting would communicate to the Israeli government that it will be protected from adverse consequences when it violates international law.

As you know, there is an international campaign to promote boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Israeli government until it complies with international law with respect to its treatment of the Palestinians. We encourage you - and every other government - to use every opportunity to sanction the Israeli government until it complies with international law regarding its treatment of the Palestinians.

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HOMOBAMA!

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Newsweek’s Next Cover:
Obama ‘First Gay President’

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Libya cave 13k

Sabha Libya cave 13k yrs old

 

 

Professor Mori alone had identified more than 1400 prehistoric art sites. Among his famous discoveries was a Libyan mummy of a child (Gallery 4 of Assaraya Museum), thought to be at least 5400 years old. The complete mummy of a small boy, preserved in a good condition using a sophisticated and advanced technique of mummification, was found in a place called Wan Muhuggiag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cave Art north and west of Sabha in the desert show water animals? That could have only existed there at the end of the ice age when no people hostorically should have lived there yet The Sahara is the home of the world’s largest collection of prehistoric cave art sites: some 100,000 sites

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FINTIZIYE!

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The longest trip to nowhere!

TIMELINE-Egypt since uprising against Hosni Mubarak

May 13 (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of events in Egypt since protests against former President Hosni Mubarak began.

Jan. 25, 2011 - Anti-government protests begin across Egypt following the Jan. 14 overthrow of Tunisia's president in the first of the "Arab Spring" uprisings.
Jan. 28 - Mubarak orders troops and tanks into cities to quell demonstrations. Thousands cheer at news of intervention of the army, which is widely seen as a neutral force in politics, unlike police who are regularly deployed to stifle dissent.
Jan. 31 - New government is sworn in. New vice president, Omar Suleiman, hitherto intelligence chief, says Mubarak has asked him to start dialogue with political forces.
Feb. 1 - More than a million people around Egypt call for an end to Mubarak's rule.
Feb. 4 - Thousands gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square to press again for an end to Mubarak's rule in a "Day of Departure".
Feb. 10 - Mubarak says national dialogue under way, transfers powers to vice president.
Feb. 11 - Mubarak steps down and a military council is formed to run the country's affairs.
Feb. 22 - Tantawi swears in new cabinet but Muslim Brotherhood and others want it purged of Mubarak's ministers.
March 3 - Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigns and military asks former Transport Minister Essam Sharaf to form cabinet.
March 19 - Big majority of Egyptians approve amendments to the constitution in referendum. The amendments are designed to pave way for parliamentary and presidential elections.
March 23 - Egypt approves law easing curbs that choked political life under Mubarak.
April 8 - Thousands protest in Tahrir Square against delays in putting Mubarak on trial.
Aug. 3 - Mubarak trial opens. Wheeled into a courtroom cage lying on a bed, Mubarak denies charges of killing protesters and abuse of power.
Oct. 9/10 - Coptic Christians turn their fury on the army after at least 25 Christians are killed when troops break up a protest. Tension between Muslims and minority Christians is not new but has heightened since the anti-Mubarak revolt.
Nov 18. - Thousands of people, frustrated with military rule, protest in Tahrir Square and in other cities.
Nov. 21 - Cabinet tenders its resignation.
Nov. 22 - Tantawi promises that a civilian president will be elected in June 2012, six months sooner than the army had planned. Tantawi confirms parliamentary elections will begin on Nov. 28 as planned.
Nov. 25 - Thousands demanding an end to military rule, pack Tahrir Square in the biggest turnout of a week of protests and violence that has killed 42 people.
-- Kamal Ganzouri is named by the ruling army council to head a national salvation cabinet. He had served as prime minister under Mubarak from 1996 to 1999.
Nov. 28 - First voting in election for the lower house. The staggered election runs through January.
Dec. 23 - Thousands of Egyptians rally in Cairo and other cities to demand that the military give up power, and vent their anger after 17 people are killed in days of protests.
Dec. 28 - Mubarak arrives in court on a hospital trolley as his trial resumes after a two month recess.
Dec. 30 - Egypt's police raid U.S.-backed pro-democracy groups, drawing criticism from Washington which hints it could review its $1.3 billion of military aid to Egypt.
Jan. 3-4, 2012 - Polls open in the third and final round of election for the lower house with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) expected to maintain its lead.
Jan. 14 - Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei pulls out of the race to become president, saying "the previous regime" is still running the country.
Jan. 16 - Egypt says it has asked the IMF for $3.2 billion in support as the country tries to fill a budget gap pushed wider by almost a year of political and economic turmoil.
Jan. 23 - Parliament holds its first session after the first free elections in years. The Muslim Brotherhood's party is the biggest winner. A vote for the upper house starts in February.
March 10 - Doors open for hopefuls seeking to run in Egypt's first presidential election since Mubarak was ousted.
April 17 - Ten presidential candidates are disqualified from the presidential race, including Mubarak's former spy chief Omar Suleiman and top Muslim Brotherhood politician Khairat al-Shater. The Brotherhood fields reserve candidate Mohamed Mursi.
April 26 - Egypt's election committee announces that Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, can run for president, two days after it disqualified him.
May 2 - Eleven people are killed in clashes between anti-army protesters and unidentified armed men. Fresh clashes erupt two days later, leaving one soldier dead. Army imposes curfew on affected area around the Defence Ministry.
May 10 - Former Arab League chief Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh face-off in Egypt's first presidential television debate.
May 23/24 - Voting due to start in first round of presidential election. No candidate is expected to get more than 50 percent of the vote, making a second round on June 16/17 likely. (Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)

 

NATO - SHMATO!

Israel not invited to NATO summit in Chicago

(AP) BRUSSELS - Israel will not be invited to NATO's May 20-21 summit in Chicago, the alliance's top official said Friday. But he denied that alliance member Turkey had blocked Israel's participation.

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Instead, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the reason is because Israel does not participate in NATO's main military missions.

News reports have claimed that Turkey blocked Israel's participation because of the raid in 2010 by Israeli troops on ships heading to Gaza in which eight Turks and a Turkish-American died.

NATO has a system of partnerships with dozens of nations across the globe such as the Mediterranean Dialogue, a NATO outreach program with seven friendly nations, including Israel.

In the past, partner nations did not usually attend the alliance's summits. But Fogh Rasmussen said 13 would do so this time.

"At the Lisbon summit (in 2010), we made clear that we would enhance dialogue and cooperation with partner nations ... because in today's world security challenges know no borders, and no country or alliance can deal with most of them on their own," he told journalists.

Two other members of the Mediterranean group, Jordan and Morocco, are among them. But Fogh Rasmussen said Israel is not because it does not participate in missions in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

"Israel has not been invited to attend the summit because Israel is neither a participant in ISAF nor in KFOR ... no one has blocked an invitation because it's not been an issue," Fogh Rasmussen said. ISAF and KFOR are acronyms for coalition forces in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

Earlier this year, Turkey scuttled a plan to include an Israeli warship in a NATO-run flotilla patrolling the Mediterranean.

In the past, Israeli warships and air force jets have joined in some NATO exercises, but Israel's participation in the naval operation would the first time its armed forces have taken part in one of the alliance's military operations.

Representatives of about 60 nations and international organizations will attend the Chicago conference. Partner nations include include Sweden, Switzerland, Qatar, Georgia, Australia and New Zealand.

Representatives of Russia and several Central Asian states also have been invited to discuss the war in Afghanistan — the summit's main focus — "because they provide important transit arrangements to the benefit of our operation," Fogh Rasmussen said.

The alliance has repeatedly said it is prepared to enhance practical cooperation with all partner nations in the region, including Israel. But some members have opposed past attempts to forge closer cooperation with the Jewish state, saying that could hurt the alliance's relations with other Muslim countries, including Afghanistan, which remains NATO's top operational priority.

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 By Dr. Nervana Mahmoud

 Egypt Presidential Candidate Aboul Fotouh “Mr Relative”

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When Einstein created his clever theory of relativity, he focused his work on time and space. Today, political analysts have extended the application of his theory to a completely different sphere; redefining political Islam. The excitement about the Islamic spring and the potential for political Islam to embrace democracy has seduced many in the name of relativity to label some Egyptian Islamists such as presidential candidate Aboul Fetouh as ‘liberal.”
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Dr. Aboul Fetouh perceived liberalism is a good indicative of the current state of affairs in Egypt, where grey is white just because it is not black. In another words, benign conservatism is liberalism because we can swallow its milder rhetoric without feeling the urge to vomit.
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For years, the mainstream religious establishment has resisted any reform of religious thoughts. Liberal scholars who advocate Ijtihad as the way forward to reconcile traditional texts with modern day life were mocked, bullied, dismissed or even worth murdered. For example; a reformist like Gamal El-Banna (despite being the Brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan el-Banna) was shunned by many, Nasr abu Zayd was forced to leave the country and settle abroad until he died, and  Faraj Fouda was tragically assassinated when he dared to voice different views. Many of them advocated reformation of Islamic thoughts, and tried (rightly or wrongly) to articulate different views of Sharia that protect the society without impinging on basic human rights. Sadly, these reformists’ voices were silenced in a country blurred by collective conscience.

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As a result, there are only various shades of conservative Islam within the Islamic map of Egypt.

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First, the Muslim Brotherhood: 

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a- The main group: Strongly committed to the group ideology and the targets and demands under the lead of their supreme leader and the Presidential candidate the group chooses (Shater or Morsi, it doesn’t matter)
b- the younger ranks who recently expressed some opposition to the group’s main chain of control and commands and demanded more freedom and flexibility. (Some of them may find Aboul Fotouh far more appealing than Morsi)
c- the wider group among the Brotherhood affiliates who endorsed the group in the parliamentary election, but they are not necessarily willing to commit to the Brotherhood and may endorse other candidates, like Aboul Fotouh, if convinced that his chances are better.

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Second, the Salafists:

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a-the hard-core Salafists: These are true followers of Salafi scholars who actually read religious text, study school of thoughts and actively involved within different Salafi parties. It seems that many of them will support their leaders endorsement of Aboul Fotouh.
b- the soft-core Salafists: These make up the larger group who choose to follow their preachers out of affection and trust without exploring the details of their perspectives. Most of the main Salafi constituents fall under this category. For them, Salafism is a general loose term that means embracing literalism as a way to achieve religiosity without venturing into details. How they will choose their candidate? Will they follow Salafists parties and back Aboul Fotouh? Possibly yes, though not necessarily.

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Third, the non- brotherhood, non-Salafist Islamists:

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This wider group of none-political affiliated Egyptians who voted for Islamic candidates in the parliament but are willing to shop around before voting in the presidential election.

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Fourth, other groups like the Sufi Muslims: 

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They usually focus on the spiritual aspect of the religion and are naturally declined to join in politics. Their preferred candidate is still unknown.
It seems that Aboul Fotouh has scanned the Islamic map well and decided to focus on the milder version of each subgroup by adopting a more elastic rhetoric, vague, but smooth, calling for justice for all in a rather ambiguous Islamic framework. He may also appeal to non-Islamists under the pretext of his perceived liberalism, and by playing the all-inclusive card: “Trust me, I am a moderate.”
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Yesterday, in the first ever-Preseidential debate , Aboul Fotouh reinforced what he already mentioned in his manifesto, a clear commitment to Sharia, but of course he didn’t elaborate on what exactly he means. The Maqasid ( goals) of Sharia as I wrote before is a very elastic subject that raises many questions. I doubt very much that Abuoel Fetouh has even thought about embracing liberal Islamic philosophy with its rationalism and freedom of thoughts; instead, he placed stronger emphasis on the justice of Islamic law, a very appealing slogan in a country rife with corruption.
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The only hint of liberalism I detected from Aboul Fotouh was his support to the rights to change religious beliefs, however, later in the debate; he reiterated his opposition of  Iran attempt to spread Shia sect of Islam in Egypt. As a liberal I find that hard to swallow, opposing the brutal Iranian regime should not be extended to rejection of Islamic inter-sect conversion.
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I wished Aboul Fetouh was quizzed about his views of Faraj Fouda & Nasr Abu Zeid, bthough I am not expecting him to embrace them, but he should at least protect the right of Muslims to voice different theological opinions without fear for their lives. No one should be murdered or persecuted for expressing controversial views in post–revolution Egypt. On several occasions, Aboul Fetouh has promised he would guarantee “Freedom of creativity” despite he has never articulated what creativity means in his opinion? I wonder how Aboul Fotouh stance regarding the elusive charge of “insulting Islam” and how he would prevent another Adel Imam saga?
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So far, Abouel Fotouh vague platform has earned him the endorsement of many from “perceived liberals” like Wael Ghonium to various Salafi groups. It is certainly true, that most of these endorsements are based on political calculation rather than ideological factors. However, the ultra-conservatives can be potential troublemakers in the future if they perceived any delays in Sharia implementation.
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Shadi Hamid described Aboul Fotouh as A Man for All Seasons and that Sharia for him “is everything and nothing all at once.” For me, that is not the description of a unifying figure, but a political hustler who are trying to appeal to wide variety of audience all at once. There are still plenty of question marks surrounding his assumed Liberalism, is it real or just a garnish for a very conservative manifesto? For now, he remains Mr. “Relative,” one who successfully proves the endless interesting applications of Einstein’s theory.

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Rinkle Kumari

Rinkle Kumari -

reportedly abducted and forcibly converted to Islam
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Windsor's Knot

Jimmy Carter:

"I trust the Muslim Brotherhood and think they'll keep peace with Israel" 

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http://youtu.be/HZa0Jrc8dxk
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===  "Israel is an enemy," said Abdul Monheim Aboul Fotouh - Yeah! replayed the 'ECHO', "It is a country that advocates an aggressive stance!.. " http://goo.gl/155ag

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How come, you Arabs... don't have the "Windsor's Knot" on your tongs?

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The Sperm Bank!

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We miss you - "SNOOPY"

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"Arab Spring" - in progress!

 "Death to Israel"

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Welcome to the Badlands

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Tamar

 

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Dear Saba

Many thanks for your birthday wishes! I had a lovely weekend to celebrate my birthday with some good friends.

Please say hi to Danny if he's still staying with you. and of course Aba and the boys also!

Much love

Tamar

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