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• Censorship of Shalit Deal Betrays Israeli Democracy

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  In writing about this story, I find myself in a dilemma.  On the one hand, I am an advocate of free speech (though not an absolutist on this as some on the left are); on the other, I want a prisoner exchange to end the Shalit imprisonment .  Currently, the Israeli military censor has dictated that there be no ...
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• Guest Post: The Duel of Ali ibn Abu Talib with Amru ibn Abd Wudd

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent essay, an analysis of the powerpoint presentation of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan , appeared in the ...
  9 hours ago

• NOT JEWISH BUT JEW-ISH - THE BACON BAGEL

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Jonathan Margolis enjoys a decidedly non-kosher bacon bagel. BY JONATHAN MARGOLIS The London Guardian Some people ask me if we can meet up. They know I’m Jewish. They’re wondering if I might like to write about, maybe even get a little bit involved with, something called the Jewish Community Centre ...
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• TRAUMATIZED RUSSIANS VIEW THEIR DEAD AFTER LUXURY TRAIN BOMBING

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Workers inspect a damaged railway carriage not far from the village of Uglovka in Russia’s Novgorod region on November 28, as it traveled between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Rescue workers searched for bodies and investigators opened a terrorism probe after a Russian passenger train derailed overnight, killing 25 ...
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• SAN FRANCISCO SPANISH CONSULATE PROTEST SLATED DECEMBER 2 - EXCLUSION OF ISRAELI STUDENTS FROM SOLAR ENERGY COMPETITION

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Join StandWithUs/San Francisco Voice for Israel will protest Spain’s exclusion of Israeli students from solar energy competition outside the Consulate of Spain December 2. Spain is hosting the 2010 Solar Decathalon, a world solar energy research competition and has now announced that it is excluding students ...
  18 hours ago

• SWISS VOTERS APPROVE BAN ON MINARETS CONSTRUCTION

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo a man passes by a poster of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP/UDC) which shows a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag upon which several minarets resemble missiles at the central station in Geneva, Switzerland. Bloomberg Swiss voters approved a ...
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• IRAN DEFIANTLY APPROVES TEN NEW NUCLEAR SITES

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  The London Times Iran’s Government today announced plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants and said work would start within two months. Each site will be the size of the existing Natanz plant with the aim of producing between 250-300 tonnes of uranium a year. IRNA, Iran’s state news agency, says ...
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• Palestine ignores Child Prostitution under their own noses? HAMAS PLAYS HOST TO PEDOPHILIA

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 139
  I was quite stunned when a former media colleague of mine sent me this e-mail, in fact, I thought it was an elaborate spoof - but I Googled the item and it has appeared on more than one site as being true... Yet I have to wonder why Amnesty International or some such has not come forward to decry this bestiality ...
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• Help Build Abir’s Garden

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Abir Aramin (1996-2006) In 2006, steps from her East Jerusalem school, the life of 10 year old Abir Aramin was snuffed out by an Israeli border police grenade or bullet fired at her at close range as she was running away from the shooter. The projectile tore off part of her head as it killed her. This was not a ...
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• SECURITY SAID BOOSTED AT GAZA-EGYPT BORDER AHEAD OF GILAD SHALIT RELEASE

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  BY BARAK RAVID and AVI ISSACHAROFF Haaretz Voice of Palestine radio quoted Egyptian sources on Saturday as saying that in an unusual move, security around the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been beefed up, speculating that the added security could signal the imminent transfer of captive ...
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• The Fruits of War are Death

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Tonight, I heard a riveting piece of documentary radio journalism, Boots on the Ground (part 5, Coming Home ), the story of those who come home from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Some return alive and some dead.  The segment I heard portrayed the work of an officer who informs families that their loved one ...
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• RUSSIA AND CHINA JOIN NUCLEAR WATCHDOG REBUKE OF IRAN

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  BY HELENE COOPER and WILLIAM J. BROAD The New York Times WASHINGTON — The United Nations nuclear watchdog demanded Friday that Iran immediately freeze operations at a once secret uranium enrichment plant, a sharp rebuke that bore added weight because it was endorsed by Russia and China. The governing body ...
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• IRAN DEFENDS SEIZING NOBEL LAUREATE’S ASSETS

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  BY NAZILA FATHI The New York Times Iran on Friday denounced charges by the Norwegian government that it had illegally confiscated a Nobel Peace Prize winner’s medal and frozen her bank account, the IRNA news agency reported. Iran called the action an interference into its internal affairs and said the ...
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• GILAD SHALIT DEAL LIKELY NEXT WEEK - FOX NEWS

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Captured soldier Gilad Shalit depicted in a graffitti painting near the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. BY BARAK RAVID and AVI ISSACHAROFF Haaretz Fox News reported Friday that a deal aimed at securing the release of captive Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was close to ...
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• The bust in Dubai and exogenous shocks

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  By now you have heard that Dubai World, the investment company, has asked its creditors for a six-month delay in repaying its debt (see articles in links ).  This is what is commonly referred to as default. Now many are wondering if Dubai the country is on the verge of default and asking who is most exposed. Markets ...
  3 days ago

• Things You Never Knew about Aipac

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  If someone asked you what Aipac’s mission was you might say: lobbying for Israel; bringing politicians and journalists to Israel; promoting Israel’s interests in American society; strengthening Zionism among college students.  But would you ever in your wildest dreams answer that one of Aipac’s missions was to ...
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• Part of Mona El-Shazely’s Intro

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  First of all there is a good news : Mona is still in Dream , at least this is what I get from the repeated promo in the channels. Second of all there is a part from Mona’s firing intro last Wednesday that Read More......( read more )
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• Annals of Jewish Terror

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Whenever there is a Palestinian terror attack or in the rare instances when a Muslim goes on the rampage here in the States, some Jews get on their high horse and denounce Islam as a religion of hate, etc. Now, Ori Nir of Peace Now has put together a useful compendium of Israeli Jewish terror . It should be noted ...
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• Measuring Superpower Performance in Insurgencies

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 125
  Assessing a big power’s performance during intervention in a developing world insurgency is inherently difficult because no single, simple measure provides a remotely accurate tool. Here’s the beginning of a metric for the job – an explanation of the dynamics driving the dual, interacting cycles of regime and ...
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• Israel Freezes Settlements, Waits for Response

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  Israels foreign minister said Thursday it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether to resume Mideast peace talks now that Israel has announced a settlement freeze. (Nov. 26)
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