Links September 23-30 2010

Have been traveling — to Western Sahara, more on that later — so here is a long overdue link dump. 

• In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue - NYTimes.com

  On Stuxnet.

• From the Dept. of Intellectual Dishonesty | Center for a New American Security

  Exum pwns Abrams — great post!

• Egypt Air and Palestinians

  Shame.

• The Angry Arab News Service | The propaganda of the New York Times: Neil MacFarquhar

• A post-negotiations future for the Middle East | The Middle East Channel
  Ending the charade of talks.

• U.S. Jewish Groups Help Make Palestinian State Impossible - The Daily Beast

  Peter Beinart.

• On Israeli 'moratorium,' U.S. has taken sides - USATODAY.com

  Good op-ed.

• 'Just World News' with Helena Cobban: 23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint of problems?
  
  
• A Jewish state or an Israeli democracy?

  Shlomo Sand

• Between Religion and Politics - Carnegie Endowment

  New books on political Islamists by Brown and Hamzawy.

• Non-Arab states dictating the Arab political agenda - The National

  Michael Young prefers having the US doing that.

• The battle against cyber-jihad | Brian Whitaker

  Start with debunking Wahhabi garbage.

• Testimony of Samer Sarhan’s shooter, accepted by police, is proven invalid by Silwanic video « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan

  Israeli soldier caught lying.

• The Associated Press: Iran sentences blogger to 19 years in prison

  Outrageous.

• Egypt mogul gets 15 years jail instead of death

  The end of the great soap opera of the late (Hosni) Mubarak years.

• Al-Ahram chairman:doctored Mubarak photo well-received by authorities | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  Abdel Moneim Said really missed an opportunity to shut up.

• Obama Presses for Peace in Likely Sudan Partition

  Backs normalization with Sudan for peace, no focus on Bashir.

• American Jihadist Terrorism, and More from CRS

  Long report on Islamist extremism in the US.

• New pressure on UJ to sever Israel ties - Mail & Guardian

  Tutu, Breytenbach, etc. back BDS in South Africa.

• Muslims Report Rising Discrimination at Work - NYTimes.com

  Complains up 20% since 2009 and 60% since 2005.

• Western Sahara: Polisario Arrests Rare Dissenter | Human Rights Watch

  A strange defector...

• New Statesman - Western Sahara — the next desert storm
• Justice Undone

  Former Annan aide supports Western Sahara independence.

• Will French Military Efforts Against AQIM Succeed? « Sahel Blog
• France24 - Qui sont les principaux émirs d'Aqmi ?

  The Top 5.

• Commentary: The Arabs and Iran | The National Interest

  Shibley Telhami.

• Un agent de la DST parmi les otages

  Why are the Algerian services leaking that there is a French spy among the Mali AQMI hostages?

• Al-Ahram Weekly | The Ahram "photo" and the Western media's reaction

  Abdel Moneim Saeed explains the Photoshop incident.

• Listen to the banned

  Upcoming album of banned artists.

• Settlement freeze has barely slowed construction (AP)

  So is a freeze a lure?

• Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 206, Michel Houellebecq

  Long interview.

• Human rights are key to the MDGs | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  Great piece on Millenium Development Goals and Egypt by Amnesty Head.

• Sayyid Qutb, man of his era - The National Newspaper

  Review of a biography.

• Arab peace plan ideas 'more important than ever': Clinton

  Yeah, really see that US support for the Arab initiative...

• Dickens in Lagos - Lapham’s Quarterly

  The European 19th century lives on in the Third world, George Packer says.

• Bill Text - 111th Congress (2009-2010)

  McCain / Feingold bill on Egypt — a good text, actually.

• Violent Rhetoric in Sudan « Sahel Blog

  Trouble ahead.

• The Nuclear Domino Myth | Foreign Affairs

  Just because Iran gets them doesn't mean everyone else will.

• Why taxes are low in the Middle East | Brian Whitaker

  It's about the relationship between the people and the state.

• Doctoring photos of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak: Overexposure | The Economist
• Pop culture in the Muslim world: Five Things: The Sheikh's Batmobile | The Economist
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  Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | A revival of Al-Azhar

  Interesting piece by Hossam Tammam.

• Bill Clinton: Russian immigrants and settlers obstacles to Mideast peace | The Cable

  But it's not only Russians: Netanyahu isn't Russian, for instance.

• Groups set boycott of Israeli troupe in N.Y. | JTA

  A valiant effort.

• afrol News - Morocco, Algeria arms race accelerating

  Or is it a generals' commission race?

• The Irrelevance of the International Muslim Brotherhood | The Middle East Channel

  Nathan Brown lays it bare for all the alarmists.

• Kafka’s Last Trial - NYTimes.com

  The fight over Kafka's papers.

• Bahrain: Shiite Cleric’s Citizenship Revoked, Tensions Build