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Friday, March 30, 2007

From Covert to Overt

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Royal Marines practicing an amphibious assault (Photo: Royal Navy ) Until Revolutionary Guards abducted 15 British sailors and marines at gu...
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Adaptation of Israeli TV Series to Hit HBO

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Asi Dayan plays the clinical psychiatrist who is the protagonist of the show בטיפול ["In Treatment"] (Photo: Wikipedia ) I was ple...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

It's a Match! Senate Passes Its Own Iraq Bill

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In another victory for pragmatism on Iraq, Senate Democrats banded together today to pass a spending bill, which, like the House bill passe...

Gulf Heating Up

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The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (Source: frenchnavy.free.fr ) The US Navy flexed its muscles Tuesday in its strongest show of ...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Rocket Wars

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Haifa's oil refineries complex was hit by a rocket in last summer's war (Photo: Motti Sela, Israel Ministry of the Environment ) A r...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Barbara Lee is Key: House Passes Iraq Bill

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Berkeley and Oakland's own Barbara Lee (Photo: motherjones.com ) The US House of Representatives took one small step toward ending the w...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

German Police Cadets are Sick of the Holocaust

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Berlin Police Commissioner Dieter Glietsch (Photo: Berlin.de ) German politicians, activists, and Jewish community representatives have expr...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Gaydamak is Back, with a Twist

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Is Yossi Lapid Gaydamak's Mr. X? (Photo: Knesset ) Arkadi Gaydamak, the tycoon whose political ambitions were the subject of an earlier ...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bambies in Jerusalem

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The sign reads "Welcome to the Valley of the Gazelles, a municipal and communal nature site" (Photo: Wikipedia ) Wildlife is not t...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Counting the Bodies with Angry Arab

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As'ad AbuKhalil at UC Berkeley (March 15, 2007) I'm not sure how much I can add to Amos's report of Angry Arab 's presentat...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

Angry Arab at Berkeley

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Sean O'Neill (l.) and As'ad AbuKhalil (r.) Professor As'ad AbuKhalil of California State University - Stanislaus, the man also k...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

UNESCO Ambiguates on Old City Dig

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UNESCO's HQ in Paris The report of UNESCO's investigation of Israeli excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem was published Wednesda...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Talking to Syria

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Sunset in the north (January 2006) One of the obstacles to negotiations with Syria frequently cited by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Self-Esteem and the Iranians

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Ahmadinejad Spins a Yarn I've long thought that many in the West underestimate or misunderstand altogether the role of Persian "se...
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