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Nov 15 2009
This post includes information drawn from Shlomo Maital who wrote an article entitled The Palestinian (Almost) State. As politicians busy themselves with endless debates; business people, both Palestinian and Israeli, are creating economic realities...
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Oct 30 2009
My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at that. In some ways, our trip followed familiar patterns: visiting family and...
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Sep 22 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad chose to commemorate Quds Day on Friday, September 18, by expressing his usual doubts as to whether the Holocaust really happened. He stated that the Holocaust was used as a false pretext for occupying Palestinian...
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Aug 21 2009
Written By: Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa Crown Prince of Bahrain We need fresh thinking if the Arab Peace Initiative is to have the impact it deserves on the crisis that needlessly impoverishes Palestinians and endangers Israel’s...
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Aug 18 2009
The following article was brought to my attention recently, about the brutal killing of a man on the promenade of a Tel Aviv beach. Haaretz August 17, 2009 “Our father was a man of peace,” says daughter of Tel Aviv murder victim. Hundreds of...
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Jul 18 2009
President Obama finds himself in a bit of a bind when it comes to Iran. And the dilemma he faces is not unlike that faced by many policy makers when it comes to the Middle East. Who do you support, the government, or the people? When he ran for the...
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Jul 5 2009
People around the world are not all the same. They don’t all want the same exact things. But at the end of the day, my guess would be that most people the world over do want some similar things, and that freedom would probably top the list of what...
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May 27 2009
Say what you will, the Middle East is a mysterious place. The person who says he knows what will happen there is either foolish of naive. And yet, there are signs afoot which may point in a new direction, one that is more hopeful, and which hints of a...
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Apr 25 2009
On the face of it, it may be possible to make a reasonable case for Iran’s right to develop nuclear weapons. After all, Iran is an independent nation, and as such, should have the right to self-determination. If Iran perceives a threat from its...
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Apr 4 2009
Try to imagine being God, or more precisely, being the sum total of all the creative energy in the universe, even the energy of intelligence, and even the energy that is the lifeblood of each and every atom. Some 13.7 billion years ago there was...
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