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http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/hrw_s_cluster_munitions_report_under_the_fa_ade On February 17, 2008, Human Rights Watch issued a 131 page report condemning Israel’s use of cluster munitions in response to Hezbollah attacks during the 2006 war. This follows dozens of earlier publications and hundreds of pages of reports…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/world/middleeast/17assess.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin JERUSALEM – Israel hoped that by pulling its settlers and troops from Gaza in 2005, it would also leave behind responsibility for the Gazans. With help from the West and some Arab nations, Israelis thought, the Palestinian Authority could…
read morehttp://www.metimes.com/International/2008/02/18/was_syria_involved_in_mugniehs_death/4525/ February 12 marked a point against radical Islam. The killing of Hezbollah’s mastermind and legend, Imad Mughnieh, in Damascus should be considered a great victory. The death of one of the most sophisticated and bloody terror masters that had…
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http://badgerherald.com/oped/2008/02/15/cartoon_antisemitic.php Editor’s note:The following cartoon appeared in a recent edition of the University of Wisconsin Badger Daily. It is followed by this response from a student. I am writing to express my astonishment after reading a comic in The Badger…
read moreIn the wake of Hamas blowing up the border fence between Egypt and Gaza the images of Palestinians from Gaza streaming across the border into Egypt were unsettling to the Israelis, Egyptians, Palestinian Authority, and Bush Administration. Only Hamas benefited…
read moremef-wire-salzman-on-culture-and.html In his new book, Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (Humanity, 2008), anthropologist Philip Salzman uncovers the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern life deep in the tribal foundation of Arab and Iranian culture. Salzman has conducted ethnographic field…
read morehttp://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=106722&d=13&m=2&y=2008 Hamas, the staunchly anti-Israel Islamist movement, which has been governing Gaza ever since its bloody showdown last June with the PNA, is looking increasingly like a spent force. It is not that the Palestinian National Authority has scored any…
read moreWhen Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last visited Germany in December 2006, he stated in strong terms that Germany should end its trade relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran and stressed that the interests of private businesses should not be…
read morehttp://litart.twoday.net/stories/4681887/comment In der NZZ – Print, online einmal mehr nicht verfügbar – berichtet Franz Haas von Boykottaufrufen linker und arabischer Splittergruppen gegen die Buchmesse in Turin, deren Gastland in diesem Jahr Israel wird. “Unterstützt wurde die Initiative auch von Tariq…
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