Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Maikel Nabil http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:10:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Islamic human sacrifices http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/islamic-human-sacrifices/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/islamic-human-sacrifices/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 11:36:24 +0000 Maikel Nabil http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=123746 If you’re an atheist, then you’re lucky you aren’t in Bangladesh this week. Last Sunday, violence exploded in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, leaving at least 30 people dead. The violence was organized by a coalition of Islamic groups calling themselves “Hefazat-e Islam,” which means in Arabic “Protectors of Islam.” Islamists took the streets chanting “Hang Atheists,” [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/islamic-human-sacrifices/feed/ 12 Israelis, those walls are your prison http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israelis-those-walls-are-your-prisons/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israelis-those-walls-are-your-prisons/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:38:56 +0000 Maikel Nabil http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=106956 It was obvious that some Israeli students didn’t like my statements. They interrupted my speech at the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) conference in Jerusalem last December, singing a national Hebrew song. They didn’t like it when I said that obligatory military service is a kind of slavery. A young Israeli student defended the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israelis-those-walls-are-your-prisons/feed/ 81 Making peace by going to Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/let-there-be-peace/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/let-there-be-peace/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:52:43 +0000 Maikel Nabil http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=85434 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Willy Brandt If we were living in Oslo in 1940, watching the young German dissident Willy Brandt, exiled from his own country, struggling against the Nazi army as it occupied Norway, not one of us would have predicted that this man would one day [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/let-there-be-peace/feed/ 34 Egypt’s Christians, facing the fate of Egyptian Jews http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/egypts-christians-facing-the-fate-of-egyptian-jews/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/egypts-christians-facing-the-fate-of-egyptian-jews/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:25:15 +0000 Maikel Nabil http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=67956 After the Egyptian military took power in the country 1952, it started its campaign against Egyptian Jews, launching its propaganda against Jews in all the state-owned media. It freed all the terrorists who had committed violence against Jews before the coup, and jailed liberals and seculars instead. It encouraged aggression toward the Egyptian Jewish minority, [...]

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