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Iraqi Christians: Fleeing Mosul |
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Story from BBC News
Translation: Abdirahim Saeed
November 16, 2008
Mosul in northern Iraq remains a fierce battleground for al-Qaeda militants. Violence against the city's Christian community spiked in early October, prompting more than 13,000 Christians to flee. BBCArabic.com spoke to a few of them sheltering in villages north of the city.
SOOAD, CIVIL SERVANT
I am a widow with four children under the age of eight.
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By Caroline Glick
November 14, 2008
US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead of his January inauguration. But while Obama has stipulated that the US can have only one president at a time, his aides and advisers are signaling that he intends to move US foreign policy in a sharply different direction from its current trajectory once he assumes office.
And they are signaling that this new direction will be applied most immediately and directly to US policy toward the Middle East.
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The Biblical Body of Water |
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By Jay Bushinsky
November 16, 2008
TEL AVIV | A dwindling water supply in the Sea of Galilee is pushing Israel to increase its use of desalination plants, with plans to expand two existing facilities and build two new ones by 2010.
The Biblical body of water is 16.2 feet below its lower "red line," which marks the point at which it is ecologically inadvisable to draw water, according to the Israeli Water Authority.
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Obama's Conquest and Beilin's Confession |
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By Sarah Honig
November 13, 2008
 Ever since the Vietnam misadventure, a postmodern revolution had been looming in America. Barack Obama's tour de force is its clincher. American campuses have been mass-producing smug, politically correct poseurs and slogan-spouting groupthink conformists for decades. Converging circumstances enabled the postmodernists who indoctrinate America's younger minds to conquer its highest political bastions as well.
To us in Israel none of this is new, except that here postmodernists are called post-Zionists.
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Iraq Cabinet Backs US Troops Deal |
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Story from BBC News
November 16, 2008
The Iraqi cabinet has approved a security pact with the US governing the future presence of 150,000 US troops in the country, officials have said.
Under the deal, US troops will withdraw from the streets of Iraqi towns next year, leaving Iraq by the end of 2011.
The decision will need to go before Iraq's parliament for a final vote.
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By Mary Rogan
November 12, 2008
 Aqsa Parvez had a choice: wear a hijab to please her devout family or take it off and be like her friends. She paid for her decision with her life. When her father and brother were charged with her murder, it raised the spectre of religious zealotry in the suburbs. Is this the price of multiculturalism?
Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because she refused to obey his rules. He swore he would kill her.
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Was He Wrong About Everything? |
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By Jonathan Tobin
Oct. 29, 2008
Has there ever been a lamer duck than George W. Bush? How he went from winning a clear majority of the 2004 popular vote to his current dismal showing is a topic that will fascinate historians in the future.
The answers will assuredly revolve around Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and the financial meltdown that has panicked Wall Street and made a Democratic victory this November all but certain. Yet, even as Bush gets swept into the proverbial dustbin of history, it would be a mistake to succumb to the temptation of viewing everything he did as wrong.
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By Jay Bushinsky
November 10, 2008
Why can't Israel be like the United States and New Zealand and just change?
Why doesn't the so-called Jewish Democratic State follow the example set by President-elect Barack Obama and Prime Minister-elect John Key and show that a political leader who does not belong to the racial or religious majority can rise to the highest governmental office in the land?
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Rightist Bloc Leads Left in 'Post' Poll |
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By Gil Hoffman
Oct. 31, 2008
The Rightist bloc led by the Likud will defeat the Left, led by Kadima and Labor, by eight Knesset seats in the national election on February 10, according to a Jerusalem Post/Smith Research poll.
The survey, taken on Wednesday of 501 respondents representing a statistical sample of the electorate, found that Likud, Shas, Israel Beiteinu, the National Union-National Religious Party and United Torah Judaism would combine for 64 seats, while Labor, Kadima, Meretz and the Arab parties would together win only 56.
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Austrians Praise Deceased Nazi Admirer Haider |
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By Benjamin Weinthal
JPost Correspondent in Berlin
October 19, 2008
"He was a remarkable person" and one should "pay tribute to him," was how Social Democratic Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer described right-wing extremist politician Joerg Haider at Haider's funeral ceremony in Klagenfurt, Austria on Saturday.
While local Austrian authorities declared an inebriated Haider to have died as the result a high-speed car crash last week, Karlheinz Klement, a former member of Haider's ex-party, the Freedom Party, asserted that the Mossad had assassinated him. Klement's conspiracy thesis is circulating among Austrian neo-Nazi and right-wing internet forums.
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