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Colonial-era political systems invite Beirut explosions
The Need for Arab Public Diplomacy in the US
"If the need to educate and make change in the US thinking and policy is as great as I believe it is, then the Arab world can not wait for Americans to create this changed environment on their own. The politics of America preclude the change from occurring without a strong push from the outside. Arab leadership must undertake its own massive public diplomacy campaign in the US."
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Bashing Islam is Freedom of Speech – Criticizing Israel is a Hate Crime
It’s not enough that the west has annihilated, bombed, and committed holocausts across the globe against the “other”; now the “other” must endure the verbal and written bombs upon their faith, culture, and traditions.
How Zionism drives Israel: Some timely answers from History
"More than six decades later, Berger's "The Jewish Dilemma" remains a timely must-read for everyone who truly cares about peace in the Middle East."
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Deputy UN chief pushes Security Council on global ceasefire, to fight ‘common enemy’
Iran says US has to show its goodwill in practice
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Spies, Spies Everywhere, and Not a Trial in Sight
"Charges of obstruction of justice and espionage--the latter of which, under certain circumstances, would call for the death penalty--were dropped against Kadish. But Kadish is 85 years old, and his spying took place 20 to 25 years ago. He agreed with the judge’s assessment that what Kadish did was “for the benefit of Israel”--as if the two agreed that, as a result, all was forgiven."
Arabs at Annapolis
"The United Nations, the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the European Union can each find a role to play, and have decided that the responsible thing to do would be to accept the challenge. If Israeli-Palestinian peace is required for regional movement on other issues as well as in its own right, and it is; and if Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi and Pakistani national reconciliation are needed, and they are - then efforts to address them must be pursued, by any and all who can play a role."
Pervasive racial profiling of Muslims in the US
"Yusuf Islam, the former pop singer Cat Stevens, and his daughter were humiliated in 2004 while visiting the US. His problem was also his name —Islam. The Americans had a point there: “Islam” was invading their country and if the US was at war with Islam, two Islams landing on the peaceful shores of America posed a double threat."
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Nature article asserts "radical environmentalists turned against science"
"Unfortunately, young protesters who damage property in the name of trying to do good are battling forces that their strategies are no more capable at resolving than their counterparts in the traditional environmental or conservation movements, in my opinion."
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