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The zealots ensure that peace fails
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April 22, 2012 11:27 AM
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The political, cultural and sociological divides between Israel and its Arab neighbors have never been greater. Over time, the implicit empathy of peoples who have clashed repeatedly without true resolution seems to have evaporated, taking with it any realistic chance for a lasting, comprehensive...
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The zealots ensure that peace fails
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April 21, 2012 01:10 AM
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The political, cultural and sociological divides between Israel and its Arab neighbors have never been greater. Over time, the implicit empathy of peoples who have clashed repeatedly without true resolution seems to have evaporated, taking with it any realistic chance for a lasting, comprehensive...
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Don’t rely on Arab states to save Syria
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March 20, 2012 01:16 AM
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Atrocities are being committed in Syria. The United Nations estimates that at least 8,000 people have lost their lives in the conflict – with other estimates putting the number of victims much higher – including many women and children. Meanwhile, the more civilized nations continue to...
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More weaponry will not help the Arabs
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January 24, 2012 02:20 AM
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The Obama administration recently concluded a deal to sell $30 billion in sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia, including 84 F-15 fighter jets. Not to be left behind, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his first visit to Saudi Arabia to win lucrative weapons deals valued at $23 billion....
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The cartoon character who rules over Libya's tragedy
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September 08, 2010 12:00 AM
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Colonel Moammar Gadhafi is like a cartoon character who just won’t disappear. When the Libyan leader visited Italy recently, his rhetoric and questionable logic was again a source of comic relief to the international community. In a speech he gave in Rome, Gadhafi told his Italian audience...
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Arabs, Israel's second class minority
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July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
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In a recent column in The New York Times, Thomas Friedman reflected on the strong Israeli economy, quoting a recent survey that put the number of Israeli millionaires at 8,419. Such a figure is testimony to the successes of entrepreneurs who transformed Israel’s economy into one worthy of...
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Harrods, or just a horrid investment?
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June 25, 2010 12:00 AM
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At a press conference last month chaired by Qatar’s prime minister, Qatar Holding LLC announced that it had bought Harrods, the iconic department store in the heart of London. The purchase was viewed as a great source of pride by Qatari officials, as if it were the Louisiana Purchase. The...
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A tale of two dissimilar philanthropists
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February 12, 2010 12:00 AM
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Recently, my attention was taken by two men with a philanthropic interest in women in the Arab world, one rather more admirable than the other. Their conflicting motivations and different backgrounds reveal much about their societies and the future of women in them. In December 2009, I was...
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Ali Hussein Sibat must not be executed
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December 30, 2009 12:00 AM
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Despite genuine efforts by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to reform and modernize the kingdom, the pushback from those who resist modern civilization is shocking and villainous. The horrifying case of a former television presenter from Lebanon, Ali Hussein Sibat, is just one example. Sibat is...
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Iran's Islamic regime is no model to follow
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November 17, 2009 12:00 AM
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In 1979, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown and replaced by an Islamic Republic basing much of its governance practices on its interpretation of Islam. Today, 30 years later, the answer to a basic question is overdue: Did the theocracy deliver a better life for the Iranian...
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Arab education is very elementary
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October 16, 2009 12:00 AM
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Many of the Arab countries have been blessed with vast reserves of oil and natural gas that became the dominant engines of the economic change over the past century. That, of course, is the good news. The bad news is that oil and natural gas still constitute the commercial foundation of much...
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Absentee voting may stabilize Israel
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June 08, 2009 12:00 AM
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Israel's election last February highlighted the demographic shift that has been taking place in the country during the last two decades. The poor parliamentary results of the Labor Party were an eye-opener to observers. This is the party that was pivotal in leading Israel since its inception in...
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Arab education displays its discontents
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April 27, 2009 12:00 AM
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Recently, a Saudi judge shocked many Saudis and global public opinion by upholding a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man. That ruling brought to public awareness an appalling practice that has for too long been hidden from view and shielded from open discussion and criticism....
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As Obama enters, a slate of Arab woes beckons
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January 06, 2009 12:00 AM
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On January 20, the Obama foreign policy team will inherit from the Bush administration an increasingly unstable Arab world. The more than 300 million Arabs in 22 countries, with the rare exception of a few Gulf nations, are lagging behind most of the world and are becoming vulnerable to unrest....
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Syria and Libya: frozen in the past, fearing the present
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December 02, 2008 12:00 AM
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The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was indeed a historical event. This coming January, an African-American, whose father was Kenyan, will become the leader of the world's most powerful country. The American election is proof that the United States remains...
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