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Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke: President Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel
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http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2108&TTL=President_Truman%E2%80%99s_Decision_to_Recognize_Israel · President Truman regarded his Secretary of State, General of the Army George C. Marshall, as “the greatest living American.” Yet the two men were on a collision course over Mideast policy. Marshall firmly opposed American recognition of the…

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The Emir of NYU
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http://nymag.com/news/features/46000/ NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a…

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R. John Matthies: Islam and the Evolution of Europe’s Far Right
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Mounting fears of Islamic encroachment are restructuring the European Far Right, bringing about the rise of fire-breathing libertarians and pro-Israel populists. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/islam-and-the-evolution-of-europe%e2%80%99s-far-right/ What is to account for the success of Europe’s Far Right? The attention the news media have devoted…

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David Brooks: A Network of Truces
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/08/opinion/edbrooks.php The U.S. brought no shortage of misconceptions into Iraq, but surely the longest lasting has been what you might call: Founding Fatherism. This is the belief that peace will come to the country when the nations political elites gather…

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Muslim Reformer’s ‘Heresy’: The Islamic State is a Dead End
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p01s01-usgn.htm Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim has seen what can happen to an Islamic reformer: His mentor was executed in 1985 in Sudan; he himself had to flee the country. Still, the self-described “Muslim heretic” has no trouble traveling the Islamic world…

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Middle East, Israel Expert Michael Oren Joins Georgetown Faculty
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For immediate release February 27, 2008 http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/ID=31515 Contact: Andrea S Fereshteh202-687-4328aes54@georgetown.edu Middle East, Israel Expert Joins Georgetown Faculty Washington, D.C. – Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service announced that renowned international historian Michael B. Oren has joined…

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Wolf to Georgetown: Detail Use of Saudi Millions
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/607 A U.S. congressman is asking Georgetown University about its academic scrutiny of Saudi Arabia and its use of $20 million donated by a Saudi prince in 2005. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) wrote to Georgetown President John DeGioia Thursday,…

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Peter Berkowitz: Ehud Olmert’s Israel
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http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/654jkvqr.asp Herzliya Pituach, Israel According to recent opinion polls, roughly 70 percent of Israelis–and about 70 percent of Palestinians–believe that two states living side by side in peace is the just solution to the conflict between them. Yet no solution…

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SPME is so grateful that so many of you have made such generous contributions within the last two weeks at week’s end. We are so happy to seen so many new and returning contributors who have absolutely made a commitment…

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