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Barry Rubin: What’s All The Fuss About?

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=170973 At most, the newly announced housing plan shows Israel doesn’t want to give up all of E. J’lem as part of a peace agreement. Not exactly news. There’s been much nonsense written about the government announcement that 1,600 apartments…

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Barry Rubin: Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/03/going-backward-understanding-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+%28RubinReports%29 Last September, President Barack Obama said before a large audience at the UN that within two months there would be intensive, direct, final status talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Sort of a Camp David III. Now, six months…

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Benny Morris: Banned at Cambridge University Out of Fear. Who’s Next?

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/02/benny-morris-banned-at-cambridge.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+%28RubinReports%29 Jake Witzenfeld, president of Cambridge University’s Israel Society, canceled a talk by Benny Morris, an Israeli scholar, apologizing for any “unintended offense.” “I decided to cancel for fear of the Israel Society being portrayed as a mouthpiece of Islamophobia,”…

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Barry Rubin: Defining “Victory” and “Peace”: How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman’s Solution and Get Blamed Any Way

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-victory-mean-and-what-does.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+%28RubinReports%29 Please subscribe to the most original blog on Middle East and related issues/2700 happy readers already have done so “War,” said General William Tecumseh Sherman, “is Hell.” He knew what he was talking about. Sherman’s march through Georgia and…

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