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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

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The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

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Bombing Foiled In Najaf Shrine Police

Bombing Foiled In Najaf Shrine Police

Bombing Foiled in Najaf The shrine police in Najaf accosted two suspicious men carrying bags in that city in the middle of the night of […]

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Aqila Al Hashimi Dies Interim Governing

Aqila Al Hashimi Dies Interim Governing

Aqila al-Hashimi Dies Interim Governing Council member Aqila al-Hashimi, a long-time official in the Iraqi foreign ministry, died of her wounds on Thursday. She had […]

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Talabanis Mosul Hq Attacked Al Qaeda

Talabanis Mosul Hq Attacked Al Qaeda

Talabani’s Mosul HQ Attacked; Al-Qaeda Connection Gunmen sprayed machine gun fire at the party offices in Mosul of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by […]

Juan Cole

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Edward Said Dies I Am At Conference And

Edward Said Dies I Am At Conference And

Edward Said Dies I am at a conference and cannot make a long entry today, but wanted to express my condolences to the family and […]

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Dozens Of Iraqis Wounded Several Killed

Dozens Of Iraqis Wounded Several Killed

Dozens of Iraqis Wounded, several Killed Guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb in the Azamiya district of West Baghdad Wednesday, missing their target of a US […]

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Wesley Clark Bush Has 7 Nation Hit List

Wesley Clark Bush Has 7 Nation Hit List

Wesley Clark: Bush has 7-Nation Hit List A Malaysian newspaper claims to have gotten an advance peek at statements in the new book by Wesley […]

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Governing Council Backs Off From Total

Governing Council Backs Off From Total

Governing Council backs off from Total Economic Liberalization The Interim Governing Council said Wednesday that Finance Minister Kamil al-Kaylani’s remarks on Monday were merely his […]

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Mudarrisi Criticizes Planning For New

Mudarrisi Criticizes Planning For New

Mudarrisi Criticizes Planning for new Constitution Sayyid Hadi al-Mudarrisi, a major cleric of the holy shrine city of Karbala, issued a denunciation Wednesday of the […]

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Aqila Al Hashimi Gravely Ill Ap Reports

Aqila Al Hashimi Gravely Ill Ap Reports

Aqila al-Hashimi “Gravely Ill AP reports that Interim Governing Council member Aqila al-Hashimi, wounded by machine gun fire in an assassination attempt on Saturday, has […]

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