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Should Harvard Dump Martin Kramer?
Stephen M. Walt in Foreign Policy
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HRW to Saudi Arabia: Free Woman Who Sought Court Aid
This is truly outrageous: Woman sentenced to "300 lashes and one and a half years in prison for filing harassment
complaints without the required accompaniment by a male guardian"
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A Palestinian arrest so ridiculous even the Israeli judges smiled
By Amira Hass
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Chile Earthquake in Pictures
At 3:34 am local time, today, February 27th, a devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
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Report: Israel plans more homes for East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Israel has plans to build another 600 homes in occupied land it considers part of East Jerusalem, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported on Friday.
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Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'
The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
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Defense Ministry: Building in 29 settlements despite freeze
According to Defense Ministry figures, construction continues in dozens of settlements in violation of building moratorium. Peace Now: 'Begin was right; freeze means nothing'
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Israel to use 'ordinary' people for PR
"After trying almost everything possible in its efforts to improve Israel's image internationally, the government will embark on a new strategy Wednesday by training ordinary Israelis to represent the country abroad."
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Obama Faces GOP On Its Talking Points
This sort of thing should happen more often.
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Barak: make peace with Palestinians or face apartheid
"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic," Barak said. "If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."
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Female soldiers break their silence
"We caught a five-year-old...can't remember what he did...we were taking him back to the territories or something, and the officers just picked him up, slapped him around and put him in the jeep. The kid was crying and the officer next to me said 'don't cry' and started laughing at him. Finally the kid cracked a smile...and suddenly the officer gave him a punch in the stomach. Why? 'Don't laugh in my face' he said."
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The Goldstone Report
The most detailed and credible human rights report on Israel's assault on Gaza (Operation Cast Lead), calling it "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population."
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NYT: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
"Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends -- and when told they've done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school's winning teams."
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Global Economic Crisis Hits Human Rights
The global economic crisis is exacerbating human rights abuses, Amnesty International has warned.
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UN torture watchdog demands access to secret jail
he United Nation's watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as "Israel's Guantanamo Bay", and demanded to know if more such clandestine detention camps are operating.
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Quarter of a million Sri Lankans face two years in camps
Government is unrepentant about squalid conditions, saying Tamil Tigers must be weeded out from amongst civilians
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Obama warns Netanyahu: Don't surprise me with Iran strike
"The message from the American envoy to the prime minister reveals U.S. concern that Israel could lose patience and act against Iran."
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Abuse of child 'witches' on rise
"I beat him severely with canes until they broke, yet he never shed a tear," said Eshiett Nelson Eshiett, 76. "One day, I took a broom to hit him and he started crying. Then I knew he was possessed by demons. ... Nigerian witches are terrified of brooms."
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AIPAC attempts to stop shift in White House Middle East policy
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) this week sent hundreds of lobbyists to urge members of Congress to sign a letter to Obama.
The letter, written by two House of Representatives leaders, calls for Israel to be allowed to set the pace of negotiations.
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Memo Says Prisoner Was Waterboarded 183 Times
Sadistic behavior, as though 118 waterboardings isn't enough to get all the information one may be hiding.. let's try it another 65 times to be sure!
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2002 memo: Had to be intent to inflict 'severe pain' to be torture
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to a Bush-era memo on the tactics released Thursday.
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Clark drops Holocaust scholar (Boston Globe)
A serious assault on academic freedom by Clark Univ. President John Bassett.
We WIN! Click here for correspondence w/ Mr. Bassett.
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Saudi judge refuses to annul 8-year-old's marriage
Sad and Disturbing story from Saudi Arabia.
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The dark side of Dubai
Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports..
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Human Rights Watch releases report
on Israel's use of White
Phosphorus in Gaza
This 71-page report provides witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus munitions had on civilians and civilian property in Gaza.
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IDF raps soldiers for images of dead Palestinian babies on t-shirts
Haaretz found that dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's grave, a child in the crosshairs of a sniper's rifle and blown-up mosques are just a few of the images with which IDF soldiers decided to mark their graduation from a training course or tour of duty.
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IDF killed civilians in Gaza under loose rules of engagement
During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive.
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Pots of urine, feces on the walls - how IDF troops vandalized Gaza homes
Amira Hass in Ha'aretz
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