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2013-05-10 Africa North

Homeless Egyptian stabs an American near US embassy in Cairo

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Posted by Fred 2013-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Mental illness or sudden jihadi syndrome?

Even number or a number divisible by two?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-05-10 09:42|| 2013-05-10 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe he wants to be tried in an American courtroom. (airfare, meals and lodging provided by Uncle Sugar)

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-05-10 12:38|| 2013-05-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Not blaming the victim or anything, but WHAT THE HELL WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN DOING IN EGYPT? Is he suicidal?

Posted by Barbara 2013-05-10 14:49|| 2013-05-10 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 What difference does it make?

Posted by Hillary 2013-05-10 15:46|| 2013-05-10 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 What is an American doing in Egypt? About what any half-informed Rantburger could have guessed, simply from the context. I found the following on a blog, apparently posted by someone who knew the victim before he got in the news:
"I woke up in my first day in Germany to the disgusting news that comrade, Chris Stone, the American academic, was stabbed in Cairo. Chris is a wonderful human being and an excellent scholar and a great friend of the Palestinian people. "

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-10 17:35|| 2013-05-10 17:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Found the following on the NYTImes site, from 2009:
To the Editor:

If Israel feels threatened these days, imagine how the Palestinians feel (Why Israel Feels Threatened, by Benny Morris, Op-Ed, Dec. 30).

Gaza is a virtual prison, and the West Bank is on its way to being chopped up into apartheid-like cantons. Palestinians inside of Israel do not enjoy full citizenship and are sitting ducks for attacks by Israelis that go unprosecuted.

For years, the concern in the media has always been existential threats to Israel. In the meantime, what kind of existence is left or possible for Palestinians both in and outside of Israel?

Mr. Morris says the Iranian presidents denial of the existence of homosexuality in Iran underscore[s] his irrationality. State denial of facts was not invented by Iran. Does not Israels denial of its own state terrorism underscore its irrationality?

Christopher Stone
New York, Dec. 30, 2008

The writer is an associate professor of Arabic at Hunter College

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-10 17:42|| 2013-05-10 17:42|| Front Page Top

#7 So, the stabbing was red-on-red?

Posted by Barbara 2013-05-10 19:22|| 2013-05-10 19:22|| Front Page Top

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