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Barry Rubin: By The End of This Year Egypt Might Be Run By a Radical Islamist Regime

I'm not saying this lightly. For the first time, there is serious evidence not only for an Islamist-controlled parliament but even potentially for an Islamist president! It's Iran all over again except in 1979 Carter didn't publicly demand the shah's overthrow and aksi say he had no problem with Khomeini taking over. In fact, though, that's what Obama did in Egypt.
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The Brotherhood has now escalated its demands to breaking diplomatic relations with Israel and expelling the Israeli ambassador. Remember all of those articles and statements about how the revolution was good for Israel if only those silly Israelis woke up and understand reality as well as people in Washington DC and the Upper West Side of Manhattan?
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We can also look forward to similar demonstrations in Palestine’s capital, after independence takes place, demanding an abrogation of the Israel-Palestine peace treaty and the end to Israeli occupation of … Israel.

Martin Kramer:

I know Nawaf Obaid (Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split by Nawaf Obaid | WaPofrom his stint (long ago) at The Washington Institute. He speaks the mind of the Saudi consensus. And here it is: Saudi Arabia has given up on the US, largely due to US bungling of the "Arab Spring." The kingdom will move resolutely to blunt Iran's thrust, which the US is too incompetent to repel. So the Saudis have joined Turkey, Iran, and Israel in the post-American melee. New Middle East.

Less national unity, more Palestine in Tahrir Square

While secular Egyptian movements had intended to mobilize millions of Egyptians on Friday in order to support national unity and condemn attacks on Christians in Egypt, Islamist forces succeeded in turning the protest in support of what is referred to as the "Third Palestinian Intifada".

FP: Remember that I predicted anti-Israelism to dominate the future of Egypt’s uprising?

PowerLine: A Verdict on Obama's "Stimulus" Plan

So the American people borrowed and spent close to a trillion dollars to destroy a net of more than one-half million jobs. Does President Obama understand this? I very much doubt it. When he expressed puzzlement at the idea that the stimulus money may not have been well-spent, and said that "spending equals stimulus," he betrayed a shocking level of economic ignorance.

PowerLine: Socialism: Not What It Used To Be!

The story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest on sexual assault charges is interesting on a couple of levels beyond the prurient. My own first reaction was: why in the world is the head of the International Monetary Fund a socialist? But that probably just shows how far beyond the times I am.
$3000/night not for a family or an entourage, but for a single socialist! Not bad … Nice arrangement! Obviously socialists have reconciled themselves to bourgeois comforts like first-class air travel. Any time you want, for free …
Where are socialists most vulnerable? Sure, it's their lavish lifestyles! But then there is this: what is the ultimate evidence of how over-the-top luxurious Strauss-Kahn's tastes are?

...including his preference for suits from the same tailor favored by President Obama.

FP: You know, IMF, the World Bank, the people who impose austerity measures on poor countries.

Israel Matzav: How George Soros is buying up the American media

Fox News is apparently the only major media outlet willing to go after Kapo George Soros. Fox is doing a two-part investigative report on Soros' ties to more than 30 major American media outlets - and how they are hidden from the public.

Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists' ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.”