Daily Archives: December 7, 2011

The strange tale of Paul Ernst

Victor Sharpe, Writers ArchiveBy The Jerusalem Connection December 7, 2011 Leave a comment

BY VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— In the North African desert during the summer of 1942, a pivotal battle of the Second World War took place between the German Afrika Corps under Erwin Rommel and the British and Commonwealth troops under Bernard Montgomery. The site of the battle was an oasis called El Alamein, which lay…

For Arab Christians, a wintry 'spring'

EgyptBy The Jerusalem Connection December 7, 2011 Leave a comment

BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— In the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, the hardline Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party won 36.6 percent of the vote — a plurality — and the even harder-line Salafist party, Al-Nour, won 24.4 percent. The Egyptian Bloc — a coalition of liberal, social-democratic, and secular parties — drew only…