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Syria Israel and the Obama Administrations Absentee Foreign Policy
Where has the Obama administration been in all of this? For all intents and purposes, they have largely been absent from the scene. There have been some actions taken, like the use of military force in Libya, but even that appears to have been more of an accident, a distraction if you will, than something growing out of a well thought out tactical and strategic vision. Even the Clinton ...
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Hamas tells Hizbollah to withdraw fighters from Syria
A Syrian rebel tries to locate the positions of Assad's forces in Aleppo. Hamas wants Hizbollah to stop fighting the rebels and to instead focus on a common enemy: ...
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Bill Clinton Israel must make peace to survive
JERUSALEM -; Former President Bill Clinton is urging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish and democratic ...
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Barbara Streisand Slams Treatment Of Women By Ultra Orthodox Jews In Israel Receives Hebrew University Honorary Doctorate
JERUSALEM - Entertainment star Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country – Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday, she took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women. "I realize it's not easy to fully grasp the ...
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Israel debates branding settler price tag attacks terrorism
So-called price tag attacks on Palestinian property by West Bank settlers and their supporters have surged this year. Israel wonders if it should call the attacks ...
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Streisand takes aim at Israels sexism
Entertainer Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues on the first major stop of her tour of the country Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received an honorary doctorate, she took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women, even as she warmly praised the country. "I realise ...
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Palestinian statehood at dead-end Israel
ISRAELI Economy Minister Naftali Bennett says the idea of a Palestinian state is at a "dead end", prompting the Palestinians to accuse him of sounding the death knell of a two-state ...
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I fear the chilling effect of NSA surveillance on the open internet | Jeff Jarvis
protect the principles upon which this nation was founded.The damage to the net and its freedoms will take many forms: users may come to distrust the net for communication, sharing, and storage because they now fear - with cause - that the government will be spying on them, whether or not they are the object of ...
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PRISM is a small part of a much more expansive and intrusive eavesdropping effort
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies and eavesdroppers were tracking the email and Internet addresses used by suspected terrorists. Often, those trails led to the world’s largest software company and, at the time, ...
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NSA veterans say NSA leaders should face prosecution
: Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. … The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. And they were all targets of a federal criminal investigation, and Tom ended up being prosecuted -- and it was for ...
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Domestic dissent can change U.S. foreign policy for the better
Several years ago, I had lunch with a US government official who told me about a trip that I had taken, that almost nobody knew about. I didn’t have to ask him where he got the information. For as long as I can remember, our government has been spying on dissidents, especially those who oppose crimes committed in the name of ';national security';. When I was a student at the ...
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The Iranian people challenge the West
Hassan Rouhani’s stunning and sweeping victory in the Iranian presidential election is already generating much debate among expert Iran-watchers about how to interpret this outcome. There are different views, for example, on what inference should be drawn regarding the posture of Supreme Leader Khamenei toward the election. Was this outcome one that the leader might have anticipated and is ...
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Sapping Assads Strength -- Israel Stirs The Pot In Syria
For much of the past two years Israel stood sphinx-like on the sidelines of Syria's civil war. Did it want Bashar al-Assad's regime toppled? Did it favor military intervention to help opposition forces? And what did it think of the increasing visibility of Islamist groups in Syria? It was difficult to guess. In recent weeks, however, Israel has moved from relative inaction to a ...
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Israel warns Irans new President
The surprise victory of reformist candidate Hassan Rowhani in the Iranian presidential elections triggered a predictably harsh reaction yesterday from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has warned of possible military strikes to curb the Iranian nuclear programme. Netanyahu said Israel would stop Iran from building a bomb "by any means", and that to relax international pressure now ...
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Turkey expands crackdown on street unrest
The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the business owners who shelter them and the foreign news media flocking here to cover a growing political crisis threatening to paralyze the government of Pr?me Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ...
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Defector Syrian general will be conduit for U.S. military aid to rebels
A mild-mannered Syrian general who taught at a military academy before he defected last year is poised to play a key role in shaping the outcome of Syria's war now that the United States has said it ...
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I saw Nasrallah in Qusair
In the center of the city, I stood in the middle of the main road as a huge, black four-wheel-drive came my way. I stared at the man sitting beside the driver: The face was familiar, but something was missing. It was clear I was face to face with Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, without a turban, wearing a military uniform. He smiled and nodded to me, and while I was still ...
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Want to learn how to think Read fiction
new research suggests a simple antidote for this affliction: Read more literary fiction. A trio of University of Toronto scholars, led by ...
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Israel rejects Jewish extremist groups terrorist tag despite hate crimes
A Palestinian man walks past graffiti painted on a wall outside a house in Hebrew reading "price tag" near where two vehicles were torched in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh ...
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Did Israel Attack Syria Again
The IDF is refusing to comment on reports that Israel attacked the Al-Miza military airbase near Damascus last night, which if true could lead to a Syrian response and a massive escalation of the 27 month ...
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Cisco CEO John Chambers in Israel again
Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) CEO John Chambers, one of the leaders in global high tech, is making another visit to Jerusalem, exactly a year after his last visit. The official reason for the visit, as well as for the previous one, is to attend the President's Conference to which he was invited by President Shimon Peres. Chambers will arrive today for a three-day visit. In addition to ...
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Iranian discontent unlikely to bring nuclear change Israel
Hassan Rohani . "He doesn't count. He doesn't call the shots," Netanyahu said, adding that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made all the decisions regarding nuclear policy, which the West fears is geared towards developing an atomic bomb. "The Iranian election clearly reflects deep disaffection of the Iranian people with its regime, but ...
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UPDATE 1-Israel Chemicals challenges plan to review royalties
Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:48am EDT By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV, June 17 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals, which has an exclusive permit to extract minerals from the Dead Sea, challenged a government proposal on Monday to review state policy on royalties. Eitan Sheshinski, an Israeli economist who played a leading role in revising tax rules for the oil and gas sector, will now head a review of policy on ...
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Israel picks team to build high-speed web network
JERUSALEM -; An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband ...
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Hamas urges former ally Hezbollah to leave Syria
RAMALLAH, West Bank -; The Palestinian militant group Hamas has urged Lebanon's Hezbollah, a former ally, to withdraw its fighters from Syria, signaling growing sectarian tensions over the war ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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