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Dawn broke yesterday over the Israel-Gaza border on a surreal but not unfamiliar scene: Rows of Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees were assembled in preparation for an incursion into the strip. These forces-when given the green light-would punch…
read moreIsrael Invades Gaza. That is in response to an attack from Gaza that killed two Israelis and wounded another, who was kidnapped and brought back to Gaza…which, in turn, was in response to Israel’s targeted killing of terrorist leaders in…
read moreThe raid into Israel conducted early on June 25 by Hamas’s military command demonstrated without a doubt that the responsibilities of governance have not moderated the terrorist group. Although Hamas now has a nationally elected political leadership, its government clearly…
read moreTo view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD119806 . Dr. Bassam Tahhan, a Syrian-born French professor of Arabic literature, teaches at the prestigious Henri IV secondary school in Paris and is an expert on the Koran. In his numerous…
read moreEditor’s Note: If you haven’t yet signed and circulate the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html , please do so now. It is a way to make you voice heard on these tragic event. Please help Scholars for Peace in the Middle East…
read moreThe Team at Keren Malki Source: http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/ In Gaza yesterday, Israeli forces spot three gunmen approaching their position and fire on them; the three are killed and the bodies are then checked – with great care, based on bitter past…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: This article is presented as an example of what can happen when professors decide to shed heat rather than light on a subject. The works of both professors have been known to inflame more than explain and…
read moreIt may just be that Israel will do what President Bush promised but failed to do: bring about some serious regime changes in the Greater Middle East by overthrowing the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas government and then destabilizing the decrepit Syrian…
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Source: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,424505,00.html Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is second in command of the political Hamas leadership in Syrian exile. In an interview, he tells SPIEGEL ONLINE that the agreement with Fatah on the foundation of a Palestinian state does not mean…
read moreThe phenomenon of Diaspora Jews embracing as truth the indictments of Jew-haters has been so commonplace that a literature on the subject emerged under the rubric “Jewish self-hatred.” A similar predilection evolved in Israel, particularly among the nation’s cultural elites,…
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