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Perverse Justice: "The Holy Land Foundation" Convictions

Wajahat Ali | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Holy Land Foundation, War on Terror, George W. Bush, Palestine, George Bush, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Politics News

The three-trillion-dollar debacle of an Iraq war significantly undermines the Bush administration's credibility and highlights its ideologically-motivated recklessness.

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Israel Lifts Four-Week Ban On Foreign Journalists Going To Gaza

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 12.04.2008 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Journalists Ban, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Israel, Israel Ban Foreign Journalists, Middle East, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel on Thursday lifted a four-week ban on international journalists entering Gaza and temporarily eased a blockade on...

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Finding a Wall of Paranoia and Fear in Israel

Zaina Arafat | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestinian-American, World, Pakistan, Israel-Palestine, Israeli Soldiers, Israel Palestine Wall, Israel Checkpoints, Palestinians, Iran, Israel Wall, West Bank, Israeli Defense Forces, Jerusalem, Israel Palestine Checkpoints, Ramallah, Palestinian, Operation Defensive Shield, Arabic, Idf, Palestinian Id Card, Israel, International, Nablus, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World News

Traveling through Israel and the West Bank is an especially unpredictable experience for me. The Israeli soldiers who patrol the checkpoints can choose to treat me as either an American or as a Palestinian.

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Israel Blocks Libyan Ship From Delivering Aid To Gaza

AFP | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Libya, Gaza, United Nations, Gaza Ship, Un, Israel, UN Security Council, World News

The UN Security Council on Wednesday was to take up a complaint by Libya that Israel unlawfully intercepted one of its cargo ships in waters off Gaza,...

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Palestinians Have Little Faith Obama Will Help Peace Talks

AFP | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bush Administration, Barack Obama Palestinians, Obama, Obama Influence on Peace Talks, Israel, Middle East, Home News

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Most Palestinians think the election of Barack Obama as US president will have no impact on the chances of a solution to the conf...

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Britain To Hold Separate Talks With Israelis And Palestinians

Reuters | Adrian Croft and Richard Balmforth | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Israelis, Israel, Palestine, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Britain, Palestinians, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will hold separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in London this month on the political and economic situation ...

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What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

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Israeli Riot Police Enter Restive West Bank City

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Riot Police in West Bank, Clashes Settlers Border Police Hebron, West Bank, Settlers in West Bank, Clashes in Hebron, Israel, Hebron, World News

HEBRON, West Bank — Escalating aggression by extremist Israeli youths holed up in a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron approached the...

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Global Media Debate Hillary Selection

James Freedman | Posted 12.02.2008 | World

World Editorial Roundup for December 2, 2008.

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It's Not Hillary, It's the Policy Stupid!

Tom Andrews | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Obama should declare that seeking regime change in Iran is no longer the policy of the U.S. and initiate diplomatic contacts with the Iranian government immediately without preconditions.

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Israel's Livni Calls On Olmert To Step Down

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 11.27.2008 | World

Read More: Israel, Olmert, Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister, Olmert Resign, Olmert Resignation, Olmert Corruption Scandals, Ehud Olmert Scandal, Tzipi Livni, Tzipi Livni Ehud Olmert, Livni Olmert Resignation, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday called on the country's embattled prime minister to step down immediately in light ...

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San Francisco Partners With Shai Agassi's Electric Car Scheme, a $1 Billion Project

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Gavin Newsom, Automotive Industry, San Fransisco, Environment, Israel, Cars, Electric Car, Better Place, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Shai Agassi, Israel21c, California, Green News

The financial crisis is hurting Americans, but months before the hit fuel costs were already gouging into people's pockets. Some were forced to carpoo...

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Wake Up, World! We are Fighting Two Wars Against Al Qaida

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mumbai, Muslim, Iraq, Israel, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, India Terrorists, National Security, Foreign Affairs, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Foreign Policy, Politics News

As long as Indian troops are patrolling lands where Muslim insurgents exist and elicit government responses that ostracize the Muslim public and moderates, there will continue to be attacks on Indian soil. Period.

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Report: 40 Jewish Youth Rampage Through Palestinian Neighborhood

The Jerusalem Post | Posted 11.26.2008 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Violence, West Bank, Jerusalem, Rabbi Yigal Shandrapi, Jewish Youth Violence, Israel, Hebron, World News

Rabbi Yigal Shandrapi, the head of Yeshuat Mordechai Yeshiva, is expected to be brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Wednesday for a rem...

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Libyan Aid On Way To Palestinians

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 11.26.2008 | World

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel Gaza Strip, Israel Blockade, Libya, Libya Aid Gaza, Palestinians, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A boat loaded with humanitarian aid has left Libya and will try to reach Gaza despite an Israeli naval blockade, a Pales...

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Memo to Americans Spying for Another Country or Considering It

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: On the Ground 2008, Egypt, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Jordan, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, The Philippines, Iraq, China, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaeda, Russia, Austria, Greece, Germany, Relationships, Ghana, Spying, Liberia, Japan, El Salvador, France, Ecuador, South Korea, Poland, Libya, Israel, Cuba, North Korea, Politics News

A recent Defense Department report cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing state secrets to al-Qaeda, China, Egypt, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Russia, North Korea, France, among others.

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Colin Powell for Middle East Envoy -- Dennis Ross for US Ambassador to Israel?

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Colin Powell could be the person asked to do the broad negotiating and arm twisting to achieve the Obama administration's foreign policy objectives with Iran and in Arab-Israel peace negotiations.

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Desmond Tutu on Obama and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

"If you believe in the rule of law, then you are going to say the ICC is one particularly important instrument, because it is an instrument that is saying we will no longer tolerate impunity."

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Ben Stiller And Chris Rock Enjoy Israel Visit

AP | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Rock, Israel, Film, Ben Stiller, Madagascar 2, Entertainment News

JERUSALEM — Chris Rock says Israel is better than Hollywood. Ben Stiller agrees. The two Hollywood stars are in Israel for the premiere of thei...

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It's the Occupation, Stupid!

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: West Bank, Usaid, Palestinians, Israel, Occupation, Clinton, East Jerusalem, It, Politics News

The village of Beita was a major news item in June 1998 when a clash between stone throwing youth and Israeli civilians led to the death of one Israeli and three Palestinians.

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Arabs Should Act Now -- Not Wait for Obama

James Zogby | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Foreign Affairs, Obama Middle East, Hamas, Israel, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Israel, Foreign Policy, Politics News

We must acknowledge that when Obama takes the oath of office on January 20th, he is likely to find a rather unappetizing situation laid out before him in the Middle East.

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The Arab Peace Initiative: What Obama Should Do

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestinians, Israel, Middle East, Barack Obama, Palestine, Hebrew, Arab Peace Initiative, Isreal Palestine, Politics News

One of the stellar accomplishments of the Obama campaign's Jewish outreach team was its ability to prevent the candidate from taking stands on specific Israeli-Palestinian issues.

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The Ramallah Banana Republic

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Corruption, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza, Middle East, Condoleezza Rice, Israel, Censorship, Media News

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are now unable to view the website Donia al-Watan because the site has been reporting on widespread corruption among Abbas' entourage.

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Al Qaeda, Obama and Pakistan

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Islam, The Middle East, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Israel, Obama, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Afghanistan, Presidential Transition, Center for American Progress, Politics News

Ayman al Zawahiri's unwelcomed reemergence from his cave today is a sad reminder how much the Bush Administration's failures are being dumped into Obama's lap.

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Iranian Blogger Hossein Derakhshan Arrested

Jillian York | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hossein Derakhshan, Iran, Israel, Canada, Breaking News, Politics News

It was reported this morning that Iranian-Canadian blogger and activist Hossein Derakshan, known as the "Godfather of the Iranian blogosphere," was arrested in Tehran.

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