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After six months of crippling sanctions, Hamas’s leaders are trying to figure out the very minimum they need to say – and the even less they plan to do – to end their isolation and salvage their government. Skepticism is…
read moreSeptember 12, 2006 — WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However,…
read moreMankind has thousands of years of experience and history to revisit andlearn from our past mistakes. But this is a sad time in our existence. It is2006, a time when it is said humans have undergone a technological renaissance.Intellectually we…
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking during an interview to Haaretz in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Eyal Warshavsky / BauBau) Western leaders are increasingly aware of the global nature of the struggle against Islamic extremism led by Iran, but within Western…
read moreMany have suggested Israel is the root cause of conflict in the Middle East.In the past I have defended the Jewish state from this charge. I have made the case that, if anything, Israel has bent over backward to make…
read moreAnalysis of Amnesty International‘s report: “Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or ‘collateral damage’? Israeli Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure” – August 23, 2006 Summary Following a number of problematic statements during the war, Amnesty International published a lengthy report on August 23, 2006,…
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Adam Gadahn. In a statement today, Al-Qaeda’s American rep, Adam Gadahn (né Adam Perlman, whom the FBI seeks “in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States”), has this to say: If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and…
read moreHaving just endured 4,000 rockets that smashed 6,000 of their homes, displaced 300,000 of their countrymen and sent another million of them into bomb shelters, Israelis are amused by the attempt to portray this frontal and unprovoked attack on innocent…
read moreWhile often ignored in the Western media, human rights abuses in the Islamic world are a daily occurrence. Both Muslim states and ad hoc religious courts order mutilation and execution, not only of criminals but also of individuals-mainly women-who have…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-nasr27aug27,0,1526858.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail Vali Nasr is a professor of Middle East and South Asia politics at the Naval Postgraduate School and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of “The Shia Revival: HAugust 27, 2006 HEZBOLLAH…
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