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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331061141&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Over the weekend I finally finished a book that I began in August 2007 and had hoped to complete before Pessah – Saul Friedlander’s The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. It’s the kind of tome…
read morehttp://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402958&c=1 I regret that Times Higher Education was not able to publish in full my remarks about the University and College Union (“Derecognise UCU over Israel motion, says Deech”, 10 July ). In calling for derecognition of the union, I…
read morehttp://www.welt.de/welt_print/arti2244212/Taliban_nutzen_die_Schwaechen_der_Demokratien.html Princeton – Der Westen muss Reformern helfen, den Islam von radikalen Islamisten zu befreien, sagt der Islamexperte Bernard Lewis. Er schließt neue Großanschläge auf den Westen nicht aus. Viel hänge von der Politik des nächsten US-Präsidenten ab, ob der…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB121677124683375451.html There have been a dozen prisoner exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel since the early 1990s, but Samir Kuntar was always a case apart. In 1979 Kuntar and his companions killed a policeman, kidnapped a young father, Danny Haran, and…
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http://www.meforum.org/article/1932 On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern part of the country. In an almost unprecedented…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/07/us_support_for_lebanese_army/#comment-808 A lot of people have asked me lately about U.S. funding of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The current interest in U.S. assistance to the LAF comes as little surprise: Congress is currently reviewing the FY09 budget, which is…
read morehttp://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216325205818 In Teheran scheint die Botschaft angekommen zu sein, dass es mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit militärisch Ernst wird, wenn der Iran mit seinem Atomprogramm fortfährt. Zumindest gibt es aus Teheran interessante, ja so bis dahin noch nicht gehörte Äußerungen und Signale,…
read morehttp://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/284xawsb.asp To understand the al-Dura affair, it helps to keep one thing in mind: In France, you can’t own up to a mistake. This is a country where the law of the Circus Maximus still applies: Vae victis, Woe to…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18morris.html?ref=opinion Li-On, Israel ISRAEL will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months – and the leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be successful enough to cause at least…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?hp BEIRUT, Lebanon – After years of escalating tensions and bloodshed, the talk in the Middle East is suddenly about talking. The shift is still relatively subtle, but hints of a new approach in the waning months of the Bush…
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