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• Is Likud an enemy of the Jewish people?

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress : Part of the Obama administration’s plan to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to the negotiating table has been to call on the Israeli government to freeze all settlement building and expansion throughout the occupied West Bank. Yet despite agreeing to freeze all settlement ...
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• Friedman and the Narrative

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 165
  Friedman and the Narrative Thomas Friedman has garnered plaudits from the hawks for his most recent column : The Narrative is the cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11. Propagated by jihadist Web sites, mosque preachers, ...
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• Absolute Palestinian majority for two states over one

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  Just came across this June ‘09 poll from the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center , a Palestinian research organization which I know is considered very reliable. I was always aware that most Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza supported two states over one binational state, but was surprised by the extent ...
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• Climate change in Kuwait Bay

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 511
  National Oceanography Centre : Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Differences are due to regional and local ...
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• MUSLIM WORLD SHOCKED AND ANGRY OVER SWISS BAN OF MINARETS

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Demonstrators gathered in Bern to protest against the ban on the construction of minarets. BY ALAN FISHER Al Jazeera In the cold night air, they gathered. First in threes and fours, until it became a bigger group. They carried candles and their anger - upset that Switzerland had approved a vote to ban ...
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• New Citigroup maven Buiter warns of sovereign debt delusion

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  The news of Willem Buiter’s role as Chief Economist at Citigroup comes via DealBook at the New York Times: Citigroup said on Monday that it has hired Willem Buiter, a professor at the London School of Economics, as its chief economist, effective January 2010. Mr. Buiter will replace Lewis Alexander in Citi’s ...
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• SWISS MINARET BAN REFLECTS FEAR OF ISLAM, NOT REAL PROBLEMS

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  A minaret in Wangen bei Olten: The Swiss have voted in favor of a ban on minaret construction. BY MATHIEU von ROHR Der Spiegel The Swiss have voted in favor of a complete ban on the construction of minarets. But the decision is not a reaction to problems with Muslims in the country. Instead, it reveals a ...
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• Saudi flood death toll up to 103

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 511
  Khabrein.info : The Saudi death toll from floods that hit the port city of Jeddah this week has risen to 103, with another 1,399 rescued, Saudi civil defense services said on Sunday. Civil defense planes flew over the flood-affected areas searching for missing people, Jeddah authorities said in a news release. Relief ...
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• EXCLUSIVE: RUSSIA TO START IRAN NUCLEAR PLANT IN 2010

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  A Russian technician works in the control room at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, south of Tehran, February 25, 2009. MOSCOW BUREAU Reuters MOSCOW - Russia plans to start up Iran’s first nuclear power station in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New Year, two sources closely involved with the ...
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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 ...
  19 hours ago

• 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 ...
  21 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 ...
  23 hours ago

• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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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