Omar Suleiman Asks Fattah and Hamas to Reach a Reconciliation Agreement by July 7

Omar Suleiman, the head of the Egyptian intelligence, met yesterday with the delegations of Fattah and Hamas to continue their talks in Cairo in order to find a solution, in a prelude for an expanded meeting of all factions early next month.

Dr. Zakaria Agha, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said Omar Suleiman urged the parties to reach an agreement to end the division before of July 7; the scheduled date for announcing the agreement.

He said the meeting with the minister was candid, as the minister confirmed to both parties that Egypt considers July 7 as the final proposed deadline for announcing the Palestinian reconciliation, and that any delay would have a negative impact on the Palestinian issue, pulling it backwards.

Agha said: “In light of the meeting with Minister Suleiman, a special committee will settle the file of the political prisoners, allowing the go-ahead to discuss other issues.”

Dr. Mahmoud Zahar, a member of the Hamas delegation for the talks, said the file of the political prisoners was discussed in the past two days, but no agreement has been reached so far. He told Al-Masry Al-Youm: “We will hold a meeting again this evening, which may be the final one if an agreement is reached.”

He added: “When we started dialogue, there were 3,000 prisoners from Hamas in the West Bank. Now they are 9,000.” He said Fattah claims that the Palestine Liberation Organization has commitments that it cannot breach only to justify its refusal of the prisoners’ release, calling just justification an unconvincing argument.

Zahar pointed out that the three controversial issues will be discussed during the meetings of the dialogue, namely the restructuring of the security agencies, the Electoral Act and the duties of the Coordinating Committee that was proposed by Egypt until the holding of the elections.

The National Action Authority, which includes the factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called in a statement yesterday for stopping the bilateral dialogue between Fattah and Hamas, and for holding an inclusive national dialogue, as bilateral dialogue proved to be a failure.

Meanwhile, the head of the Political and Security Bureau of the Israeli Defense Ministry, Amos Gilad, arrived in Cairo yesterday on a several-hour visit for talks with Egyptian officials regarding the truce and the exchange of prisoners deal between Israel and Hamas.

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Egyptian Competitiveness Report: Egyptian Economy Subjected to Terrible Pressure Due to the Global Financial Crisis

The Egyptian Competitiveness Report warned against the dangers of the terrible pressure, resulting from the global financial crisis. The report confirms that such dangers might badly affect weaknesses that strongly shape the Egyptian economy before the crisis. However, such weaknesses, as stated by the report, included the dangers of the enlarged financial deficit, the limited financial range and high inflation rates.

Moreover, this report pointed out to the fact that the global financial crisis was a difficult test for the Egyptian economy's strong foundations, which would be able to sustain the decreasing rates of growth in the world, thus pushing the Egyptian economy down with them.

Furthermore, the report, to be officially announced today, added that despite the decrease of Egyptian Low Budget Domestic Sector's net debt from 67.4% in June 2004 to 53.4% in June 2008, as well as the decrease of net domestic public debt from 46.8% to 43.1% during the same period, those rates are to be doubled in countries such as India, Morocco, Brazil, Mexico and Tunisia.


On his part, the Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry, Eng. Rashid Mohamed Rashid said: "No one can deny that the crisis has caused marked losses for the Egyptian economy and reduced expected growth rates." Rashid also declared to Al-Masry Al-Youm, that the good news was the fact that these consequences were nothing compared to the worse expectations of the Egyptian government. He added that, the exports decline rate reached only 7%, although he personally expected it to range between 15 to 20 %.

Mr. Rashid continued to say that his point of view was to be enhanced by the slowdown encountered by all forms of trade all over the world with a slowdown rate of 25% during the first few months of the global economic crisis.

Rashid blessed the recommendations contained in the Competitiveness Report 2008; especially with regard to increasing the rates of human development. Rates of human development were seen by Rashid as the basic indicator of achieving growth rates targeted by the Egyptian economy during the coming years.

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"Bila bunga sedang mekar"

Bismillahirrohmanirrohim...
Seorang ahli cinta berkata " perumpamaan seorang wanita adalah bagaikan setangkai bunga yang sedang mekar dan seorang pria adalah kumbang yang siap menghisap madunya "

Baik itu bagus tapi sok baik itu jelek, keren or cantik itu indah tapi sok keren or sok keren itu jelek, dibutuhkan pun bagus tapi sok dibutuhkan itu jelek.

Jika berbicara soal dibutuhkan, maka wanita adalah salah satu permata dunia yang mungkin dibutuhkan oleh kaum adam. Namun juga tidak dapat kita pungkiri seperti halnya kaum adam, kaum hawa-pun membutuhkan kaum adam seperti halnya kaum adam membutuhkannya.

Allah menciptakan Rasa malu yang besar dalam diri kaum hawa dan ini adalah merupakan pantangan utama tuk mereka (kaum hawa, Red) khususnya dalam mengungkapkan rasa butuhnya kepada kaum adam. Gambaran kebutuhan itu laksana seekor kumbang yang selalu dan ingin mengisap sari pati bunga pada saat bunga itu berkembang dan mekar, namun tampa disadari ternyata peristiwa pengisapan madu oleh si kumbang adalah sesuatu yang dibutuhkan oleh si bunga tersebut tuk perkembang biakan yang biasa disebut perkawinan silang atau yang lainnya.

Namun tidak sedikit, ada banyak kumbang yang hanya ingin mengisap madu dari bunga-bunga yang sedang mekar tersebut, sedang setelah mereka mengisapnya lalu ditinggal pergi, orang bilang "abis manis sepah dibuang", sungguh malang nasib si bunga. Begitu juga halnya dengan seorang wanita yang sedang dan baru masuk dalam masa-masa puberitas serta baru mengenal yang namanya cinta, banyak pria yang akan mengahmpirinya, dan itu pasti. Lebih-lebih lagi ketika si bunga atau si wanita tersebut diberi kelabihan oleh Allah wajah yang cantik atau manis.

Sikap sombong dan angkuh biasanya hadir dan timbul dalam diri seorang wanita yang mempunyai kelebihan ini, padahal kalau ia sadari dari kesombongan ini orang akan mulai lebih mengincar dan ingin menjatuhkannya karna sifatnya yang jelek. Dan setelah ia (si pria. Red) mendapatkan yang diinginkan maka terjadilah seperti yang kami katan diatas, si bungapun dicampakkan begitu saja yang ujung-ujungnya berakhir kecewa. Na'udzubillah.....

Maka wahai saudari-saudariku yang berbahagia, bersyukurlah kalau kalian tidak diberikan wajah yang tidak begitu cantik atau elok nan manis, jangan mengira berwajah cantik itu selamanya enak dan bahagia. Bersyukurlah denagn apa yang Allah telah gariskan kepada kalian, karna nikmat Allah itu sungguhlah besar.

Perlu kalian dan kita ketahui bersama, bahwa sesuangguhnya wanita yang baik itu untuk pria yang baik, sedang wanita yang tidak baik, untuk mereka yang tidak baik juga. Walaupun wajah kurang atau pas-pasaan jangan pernah mengeluh dan berkeluh kesah, hiasi ia dengan akhlak dan budi pekerti yang indah agar kau dapat yang demikian dan serupa.

Dan untuk para saudari-saudariku yang diberi kelebihan (yang mempunyai kelebihan pasti merasa), tambahkan keindahan dalam dirimu dengan iman dan akhlak yang baik. Jangan pernah biarkan sembarang kumbang bisa hinggap apalagi sampai menghisap madu yang ada dalam dirimu, agar sempurna ciptaan Allah dan agar kalian tidak merasa kecewa di akhirnya nanti.
Wallhua'lam bishowwab.....

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