Links for Mar 1-5 2010

Some recent links (as always, there's more on Delicious):

• Dr. Bouville's Existential Kitchen

  Cooking with Jean-Paul Sartre.

• CPOST - Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism

  Suicide bombing database.

• Fallen Empire: Dictator's Destroyed & Recycled Palaces | Design + Ideas on WU

  Saddam's palaces.

• FT.com / Iran - Tehran closes two reformist journals

  More crackdowns in Iran.

• Should Harvard Dump Martin Kramer? | Stephen M. Walt

  Wal weights on Kramer's "end pro-natal subsidies to Gazans" lunacy.

• Lockheed Martin Corp.: U.S. awards Lockheed $213 million for initial work on F-16s for Egypt - OrlandoSentinel.com

  US keeps F-16s flowing to Cairo in deal totaling over $3bn.

• FT.com / Columnists / Global Village - Israelis savour rise in kosher investments

  After Islamic finance, Kosher finance.

• FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Israel is no more rogue than America

  The problem when someone defends Israel's assassinations, is that they defend assassinations anywhere. Caveat Emptor.

• penser un autre monde

  A sadly no longer updated Morocco left blog.

• المستشار طارق البشرى يكتب: محاولة لفهم الواقع والحاضر - بوابة الشروق

  Tarek al-Bishri on the US role in Egypt's political crisis, and more. [Ar]

• Maroc: la fin de la «parenthèse enchantée»

  Excellent reportage on the decline of press freedom in Morocco.

• YouTube - angryarabpeople's Channel

  Angry Arab on YouTube (tv appearances)

• Collision course: The regime and ElBaradei | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt

  Good piece by @linaattalah

• Op-Ed Columnist - Loosey-Goosey Saudi - NYTimes.com

  Maureen Dowd manages to defend Israel and Saudi Arabia all at once.

• DUBAI: Exploring the American connection to alleged Mossad hit of Hamas figure | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

  On Payoneer's Israeli intelligence links.

• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

  Thomas Hegghammer says al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia is now practically non-existent.

• SYRIA’S STRATEGIC TIES TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC: DIPLOMACY IN THE POST-IRAQ/POST-PEACE PROCESS MIDDLE EAST « The Race for Iran

  The Leveretts on Syria-Iran relations.

• Two Suspects in Dubai Murder Traveled to U.S. - WSJ.com

  I'd like to see US authorities share the CCTV footage from their arrival.

• Morocco: Free Retired Colonel Held Unjustly | Human Rights Watch

  Another Moroccan officer unjustly imprisoned for whistleblowing.

• BBC News - Jerusalem Diary: Found tribe

  "Lost" Jewish tribe from Thailand now living in settlements. Do read Tudor Parfitt's book on the "lost tribes" mumbo-jumbo.