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A different view of the pyramids in Egypt.
19 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: Egypt
The Age of the Pyramid Builders
13 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Egypt
Why so little online on Egyptian conquest of the All-Palestinian Protectorate?
21 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, maps, Middle-East politics
The Pyramids of Giza: The Greatest Wonders of the Ancient World
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Egypt
40 Years of Peace: Israel and Egypt
21 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Egypt, Israel
Why Egypt Is Flooding Gaza’s Secret Tunnels
17 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, war and peace Tags: Egypt, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, war against terror
Arab Spring revisited—the battle for democracy in Egypt
25 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics Tags: Egypt, Middle-East politics
Gaza’s border with Egypt? #EndGazaBlockade
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Egypt, Gaza blockade, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Oxfam inadvertently left the neighbour on the western border of Gaza off the map in its YouTube clip but not on its eastern border. An honest mistake despite the Arab Spring drawing the attention of Egypt and its politics to everyone’s ears including ODA activists.
The Gaza Strip has two borders: both Egypt and Israel restrict trade with the Gaza. Through this honest mistake in map reading, Oxfam blames Gaza’s problems on the Israeli blockade. I am sure it will correct its position once it reads a map such as the one adjacent which is identical to that in its YouTube clip in all but one detail. It has all of the Gaza’s neighbours on it.
We're currently helping ~700k people in #Gaza affected by Israeli blockade: oxf.am/gaza-crisis #EndGazaBlockade https://t.co/4BWdGDqo2F—
Oxfam International (@Oxfam) June 04, 2016
Any blockade of Israel of the Gaza Strip is not grounds to attack Israel because it can always trade across its border with Egypt but Hamas backed the wrong side in the recent Egyptian presidential election.
After the military coup, the military leaders closed 95% of the tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza. In 2013-2014, Egypt’s military has destroyed most of the 1,200 tunnels which were used to smuggle food, weapons and other goods into Gaza, including flooding them with sewage. Egypt is setting-up a 13-mile buffer zone with the Gaza Strip. The includes clearing 10,000 residents from 800 houses.
Hamas derived 40% of its tax revenue from tariffs on goods that flow through those tunnels with Egypt. One estimate puts the economic losses at nearly a fifth of Gazan GDP.
The Israeli blockade of the Gaza may have something to do with Gaza firing missiles randomly at civilian targets in Israel. Hamas now murders Israeli citizens in the street in knife attacks.
The Gaza strip may have political differences with the Egyptian military dictators but it is not actually committing acts of war against them.
There is no good reason why Oxfam is not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza in the same way they protest against breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!Passing references to the Egyptian blockade in press releases is not enough.
No peace convoys attempt to break the Egyptian blockade. Plenty were launched against Israel. One reason is the Egyptians are rough customers. There is rule of law in Israel, none in Egypt.
The ancient Egyptians were a bit obsessed
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in cats, economic history Tags: ancient Egypt, cats, Egypt, pyramids
Where are the most pyramids?
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Egypt, pyramids, Sudan
Further evidence of the Only Nixon could go to China theorem (and Bibi Netanyahu may be the only man who will make peace in the Middle East)
27 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Egypt, Israel
The women of Cairo, 1956
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender Tags: Cairo, Egypt, Islamic societies
Further evidence of mass kidnappings of peace activists
02 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: activists, Egypt, Gaza blockade, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy
Egypt is doing more work to set up a 13-mile buffer zone with the Gaza Strip, after it discovered hundreds more tunnels running from the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave into the Sinai Peninsula. The plan includes clearing 10,000 residents from some 800 houses. Egypt has already destroyed over 1600 smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip and is constantly on the lookout for more.
Where is the international protest is regarding this continued blockade of the Gaza Strip? Why haven’t the peace activists taken to the streets across the globe to protest at this blockading the Gaza Strip?
The only possible explanation as to why these principled peace activist are unavailable to take to the streets is mass kidnappings. This blockade by Egypt of the Gaza Strip and its intensive long-term dimensions has been regularly reported in the Guardian, so they must know of it. The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is so intense that Hamas has resumed trade with Israel.
Of course, once you start discussing the Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip, you must discuss what Hamas is doing to remove it, which are well-known.
As the Guardian reported, Hamas’s decision to carry on fighting in in the recent war recent weeks despite catastrophic civilian losses owed as much to Egypt’s refusal to lift this blockade as it does to Israel’s. Egypt wanted Hamas to accept an immediate ceasefire without preconditions. Hamas wanted Egypt to spell out how it might ease the siege before it would agree to a ceasefire.
Even the Guardian occasionally mentions who was the real target of the Hamas missiles fired at Israel. Where are the peace activists? Kidnapped?
Egypt to double size of ‘buffer zone’ along Gaza border
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: blockades, Egypt, Gaza Strip, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy
Where is the international protest movement? Once again, the only explanation is that they must have been kidnapped.
There is no other reason why they are not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in the same way they protest against the breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!
More homes face demolition as Egyptian security forces warn people a buffer zone with Gaza is to be extended.
‘Inside Story’, Al Jazeera, 5 December 2014
Egypt plans to double the size of a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The [Egyptian] government says the measure is intended to put an end to the movement of armed fighters and weapons from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The first phase of the operation began in October, days after 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a checkpoint close to the Gaza border.
Thousands of people in northern Sinai were ordered to move out. Their homes were then bulldozed and bombed. The buffer zone runs for about 13km along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The first phase cleared an area 500 metres wide, destroying homes and tunnels used for smuggling. The security buffer is…
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The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is the real target of Hamas
31 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: blockad of Gaza Strip, Egypt, Gaza Strip. Hamas, proxy wars, siege of Gaza Strip, trade wars
David Brooks argues that Egypt is the real target of the Hamas missiles. After the recent military coup in Egypt, the military leaders closed roughly 95% of the tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza. In 2013-2014, Egypt’s military has destroyed most of the 1,200 tunnels which were used to smuggle food, weapons and other goods into Gaza, including flooding them with sewage.
Hamas derived 40% of its tax revenue from tariffs on goods that flow through those tunnels. One estimate puts the economic losses at nearly a fifth of the Gazan GDP.
Hamas couldn’t strike at Egypt to end the blockade so it attacked Israel in a proxy war. If Hamas could emerge as the heroic fighter, if Arab TV screens were filled with dead Palestinian civilians, then public outrage might force Egypt to lift the blockade.
When Mousa Abu Marzook, the deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, dismissed a plea for a cease-fire, he asked
What are 200 martyrs compared with lifting the siege?
Hamas is firing rockets at Tel Aviv and sending terrorists through tunnels into Israel while aiming at Cairo.
The Gaza Strip has two borders: both Egypt and Israel restrict trade with the Gaza. The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is biting much more than the Israeli blockade.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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