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Leading Egyptian Satirist Faces Probe for "Insulting" Morsi
Morsi Adviser: Israel Will Be Gone in a Decade
Yellow Pepper Becomes Latest Member of Zionist Food Brigade
Baruch Dayan Emet

Leading Egyptian Satirist Faces Probe for "Insulting" Morsi

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 05:08 PM PST

Guest post by Challah Hu Akbar, aka Challah & CHA

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CHALLAH @ Reuters

An Egyptian satirist who made fun of President Mohamed Mursi on television will be investigated by prosecutors following an accusation that he undermined the leader's standing, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Bassem Youssef's case will increase worries about freedom of speech in the post-Hosni Mubarak era, especially when the country's new constitution includes provisions criticized by rights activists for, among other things, forbidding insults

Youssef rose to fame following the uprising that swept Mubarak from power in February 2011 with a satirical online programme that was compared with Jon Stewart's Daily Show. He has since had his own show on Egyptian television and mocked Mursi's repeated use of the word "love" in his speeches by starting one of his programmes with a love song, holding a red pillow with the president's face printed on it.

The prosecutor general ordered an investigation into a formal complaint against Youssef by an Islamist lawyer. The complaint accuses him of "insulting" Mursi, an Islamist backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, and "undermining his standing".

Here is the video from Youssef's appearance on the Daily Show.

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Morsi Adviser: Israel Will Be Gone in a Decade

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 09:09 AM PST

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CHALLAH @ The Times of Israel

A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years. The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, was an attempt to explain a previous statement to the effect that Jews who once lived in Egypt should return to their home country and leave Israel to the Palestinians.

"There are people in Palestine who occupied it, and those occupiers have prior homelands," Erian wrote on his Facebook page. The quotes were cited by the London-based pan-Arab daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Israel, he claimed would cease to exist within the next decade. "There won't be a thing called Israel anymore; only Palestine, and it'll contain Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze, and all of the people who lived there to begin with," he said.

"Anyone who wants to stay will stay as a Palestinian citizen." Thus, he explained, "all of those who occupied it" — including Jewish former residents of Egypt – "will have to return to their homelands."

The Washington Institute has a short biography on Erian.

Erian was a founding member of Islamic Student Action at Cairo University, as well as student union leader during the early 1970s. He was elected president of the General Union of Students of Egyptian University and also served as secretary of the cultural committee in the medical students' union in Cairo (1972–1977). In 1981, he was arrested alongside several other members of Egypt's Islamist groups, tried in a military court, and released a year later. In 1986, he was elected to the board of directors of the Egyptian doctors' syndicate. In 1987, he was elected to the People's Assembly, becoming the youngest parliamentarian in modern Egyptian history. In 1995, he was imprisoned along with many others for his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood. He was also jailed in 2005 after he hinted that he might run for president, in 2006 for his participation in protests, in 2007 for his leadership role in the Brotherhood, and in January 2011 at the height of the anti-Mubarak revolt. Following Mubarak's ouster, Erian played a leading role in establishing the Freedom and Justice Party and was named its vice chairman. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, he won a seat in the People's Assembly and was named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He speaks fluent English and often addresses the U.S. media.

Yellow Pepper Becomes Latest Member of Zionist Food Brigade

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 06:17 AM PST

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Back in May, "very dangerous" Israeli candy was discovered in the Lebanese town of Ain el-Hilweh.

It now appears that another member of the Zionist Food Brigade has infiltrated Lebanon.

A Lebanese shopper discovered several food items made in Israel in one of Lebanon's largest retailers Tuesday. While shopping at Spinneys in the coastal city of Sidon, a man, who preferred to remain anonymous, discovered a bag of three kinds of peppers made in Israel.

He immediately contacted local authorities who in turn contacted the Lebanese Army. Members of military intelligence and police arrived to Spinneys to discover 13 similar bags that have the word "Israel" printed on the sale tag.

…The case was then referred to the military judiciary for investigation into how the products made it through the customs department at the port or the airport.