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Civilization’s Lament By: Robert Tanenbaum, August 23, 2006

http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/19242/Civilization’s_Lament.html As the Hizbullah-Israel war wound down last week, pundits were quick to label winners and losers. Some said Hizbullah won because it survived, bombed Israel with 4,000 rockets, and earned the applause of the Arab “street.” Others maintain that…

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Gerald Steinberg: Meanwhile, Back in Terheran

The war against Hizbullah has pushed the latest developments in theWestern effort to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the headlines. The two issues are clearly linked – Hizbullah is armed by andfunctions as Iran’s vanguard force – even if…

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Planned Obsolescence: The State of Scholarship in the Middle East Studies Association, by Bruce Thornton,The Daily Standard, 8.02.06

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/525jrdwu.asp THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION, the professional gatekeeper of American academic orthodoxy on all matters Islamic, has posted the lineup of presentations for its upcoming meeting in Boston this November. As always, what’s not going to be talked about…

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