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Schooligans für Bildung & Frieden

Am Ende stand eine Erklärung, die alles nur noch schlimmer machte: Bei den Verwüstungen, die mehrere hundert Schülerinnen und Schüler am vergangenen Mittwoch in der Berliner Humboldt-Universität anrichteten, habe es sich, wie die „SchülerInnen-Initiative ‚Bildungsblockaden einreißen!’” mitteilen ließ, „nicht um…

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Palestinian Columnist: Muslims Are Harming Christian Culture

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD211208 In his column in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, ‘Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar criticized the persecution of Christians in Arab countries, with a particular emphasis on the Christian population of the Palestinian Authority.(1) Following are excerpts from the article: “In Iraq,…

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Editorial: Don’t Pin Much Hope On Obama

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=116161&d=7&m=11&y=2008 Having welcomed the historic victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election, let us begin by shedding too much expectations of him. They are likely to be dashed – generating a great deal of pain and resentment into…

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Tamara Cofman Wittes: Our Shaky Coalition, And How To Save It

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/10/our_shaky_coalition_and_how_to_save_it/ There are two opposing coalitions in the Middle East today. On the one hand, there is a revisionist coalition comprised of Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah-a coalition dissatisfied with the distribution of power in the region, and dissatisfied with…

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Mit allen Mitteln: Judenhass in alle Lande

http://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/themen/gesellschaft/gesellschaft-single/datum/17/09/2008/mit-allen-mitteln-judenhass-in-alle-lande/ Islamistische Fernsehkanäle sind die heute wirkungsvollsten Medien, die Propagandisten des islamischen Antisemitismus zur “Gehirnwäsche der Muslime” nutzten. Das sagte der Hamburger Politikwissenschaftler Matthias Küntzel auf einer Tagung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, die am Mittwoch in Berlin stattfand. Dabei ging es um…

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London’s Terror Bank

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121927458233958383.html In the war on terror, the U.S. has had no greater friend than the United Kingdom. And as the U.S. economy continues to suffer under the burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley, our British friends have demonstrated a more sensible approach to…

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The ‘One-State Solution’ Is Full Of Dangers

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080811/OPINION/72633527/-1/ART Every so often comes a remorseful Israeli leftist academic, a well-meaning Western peace activist, or a frustrated Palestinian official like Ahmed Qurie, the head of the Palestinian peace delegation, who pronounces the death of the two-state formula and advocates…

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