Israel/Palestine
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Poll: Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal rights for Arabs
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Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel,
according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny
Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset.
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Israel to use 'ordinary' people for PR
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"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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Barak: make peace with Palestinians or face apartheid
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"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
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"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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IDF raps soldiers for images of dead Palestinian babies on t-shirts
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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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The Arab World
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Lawyer: Beheading planned in Saudi sorcery case
Would anyone care to invite Saudi Arabia into the 21st century?
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"A Lebanese man charged with sorcery and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be beheaded on
Friday, the man's lawyer said Wednesday"
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Hospital fears for abused maid's life
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JEDDAH: Erfan & Bagedo Hospital in Jeddah has rejected the request of Safa police to hand over an Indonesian maid, who has been receiving treatment at the hospital, to her sponsor.
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The Dark Side of Dubai
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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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Global Interests
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Obama Faces GOP On Its Talking Points
This sort of thing should happen more often.
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President Obama speaks to the GOP House Issues forum and debunks many talking points offered as questions by Republican House
members.
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Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'
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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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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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C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as
illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
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NYT: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
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"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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