Links from my del.icio.us account for January 6th: Egypt denies Mubarak said Israel must win war on Hamas - Yahoo! News - Headline speaks for itself. » War in Gaza: no upside for Egypt Middle East Strategy at Harvard - Steven Cook analyses the fallout for Egypt - I basically agree with him that there is little [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 5th: Informed Comment: Global Affairs: End Game in the Gaza War? - Three-part analysis of Gaza war by A.R. Norton and Sara Roy. missing links: After meeting Condi, Israeli officials start planning for a forced mass evacuation of Palestinians from northern Gaza: Israeli TV - More indications that Israel plans [...]

Industry watchdog Editor & Publisher: NEW YORK (Commentary) Israel launched its much-anticipated invasion of Gaza on Saturday. For over a week, U.S. media had provided largely one-sided coverage of the conflict, with little editorializing or commentary arguing against broader Israeli actions. Most notably, after more than eight days of Israeli bombing and Hamas rocket launching in Gaza, [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 2nd through January 5th: YouTube - Nassrallah VS. Egypt - Video of Nasrallah#039;s attack on Egypt#039;s policy towards Gaza. In Gaza, the real enemy is Iran - Los Angeles Times - Israelis Yossi Halevi and Michael Oren (can you be taken seriously as a historian when you deny reality in [...]

Click on the image below to download a high resolution PDF of this map. Update: This blog overlayed the map with Google Earth. [Thanks, Stefan.]

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 1st through January 2nd: Rutherford, B.K.: Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. - New book on Egypt. Robert Fisk: The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent - Something is rotten in the state [...]

Links from my del.icio.us account for December 30th through January 1st: The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - The Middle East as a nagging irritant - Rami Khouri looks at stagnation and worse in the Middle East. Eyeless in Gaza II—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) - Scott Horton asks: could the true purpose of this whole exercise [...]