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Review of Bernard Lewis's What Went Wrong
Posted by gato on Friday, January 25 @ 21:29:32
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 Serge Schmemann, in a review in the NY Times, writes that Lewis's latest book on the Muslim world is a disappointment, too filled with generalizations and unsubstantiated speculations (such as the theory that the absence of polyphonic music--music made up of multiple voices--in the Muslim world is related to its inability to modernize).
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Playing Into Sharon's Hands
Posted by gato on Friday, January 25 @ 12:43:09
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By ROBERT MALLEY
AMMAN, Jordan -- To hear the Israeli government tell it, the reason behind the enduring conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one man — Yasir Arafat. Hence, Israel's approach to the problem is confining the Palestinian leader to his Ramallah headquarters, destroying the symbols of the Palestinian Authority he leads and gradually reoccupying its territory.
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US Ambassador's Peace Remarks Angers Israeli Right
Posted by gato on Friday, January 25 @ 12:29:29
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 JERUSALEM - The American ambassador to Israel was speaking to Israeli college students and, it is safe to assume, had no intention of sparking an uproar.
This is what Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer told the students Wednesday: They could push for a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He noted, too, that Americans had managed to change government policy with street protests and by taking over the offices of college deans.
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Car Bomb Kills Star Witness in Sharon War Crimes Trial
Posted by gato on Thursday, January 24 @ 14:12:46
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By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A former Lebanese Christian warlord held responsible for a 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees that for many symbolizes the outrages of Lebanon's civil war was killed Thursday in a car bombing at his house. Three bodyguards were also killed.
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Burg, Abu Ala Warn of Regional Catastrophe Without Outside Aid
Posted by gato on Wednesday, January 23 @ 19:09:07
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Knesset speaker Avram Burg and Palestinian Legislative Council Chairman Abu Ala warned on Wednesday that unless outside parties intervened to halt the spiral of violence in the Middle East, the region could go up in flames.
Speaking in Paris after the two men had met with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Burg said that if the world ignored the Middle East, which was currently inflamed, "it will ultimately be confronted with the same problems, from Paris to New York."
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A different consensus
Posted by dalliaa on Wednesday, January 23 @ 15:05:47
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On 13 January Yasser Arafat addressed the 4,000 residents of Rashidiyeh refugee camp in Lebanon on the 37th anniversary of his Fatah movement. "We will remain steadfast and make sacrifices until the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and until the refugees return to their homes," he said. He may as well have been addressing the 3.4 million Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza -- so far and so near does he revolve to and from them.
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Diary of an occupation
Posted by dalliaa on Wednesday, January 23 @ 14:58:03
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Insight by a western peace activist who went to Palestine in order to raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians under Israeli rule. Extremely interesting and well worth a read.
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Run, Osama, Run -- by Thos. Friedman in NYTimes
Posted by crd on Wednesday, January 23 @ 11:01:03
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 BRUSSELS -- On the way back from Kabul, I passed through Pakistan, the Persian Gulf, London and Belgium, where I had a variety of talks with Arab and Muslim journalists and business people and Muslim community leaders in Europe. All of them were educated, intelligent and thoughtful — and virtually none of them believed that Osama bin Laden was guilty.
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Settler Population Growth Slowed Since Start of Intifada
Posted by gato on Wednesday, January 23 @ 01:09:37
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According to Israeli Interior Ministry figures, there were 203,067 Jews living in the West Bank and Gaza at the end of December 2000, compared to 213,672 at the end of December 2001 - a rise of 10,605 people (5.22 percent). Last year's increase was significantly lower than in each of the last six years, each of which saw an 8 percent rise. This drop in the rate of growth appears to stems from a substantial decrease in the number of Israelis who decided to join the settlements.
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British Department Store Backtracks on Boycott of Goods from Settlements
Posted by gato on Tuesday, January 22 @ 19:29:42
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The management of the London department store Harrods has decided to cancel its boycott of goods made on the Golan Heights and in the West Bank. Instead, it was announced yesterday, Harrods would place prominent signs next to these products, clearly stating where they were made - the Golan or the West Bank - without mentioning the word Israel.
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