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Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 03:22 am CET

By Barry Rubin

Obama's State of the Union

 

Barack Obama

By Rob Harris

"Know the facts before you criticise us"

 

Reuven Rivlin

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Actress Banned from Returning Home

 

Golshifteh Farahani nude

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Aliaa ElMahdy: not afraid of being a woman

 

Aliaa ElMahdy

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How Much Security Will NATO’s Missile Defense Shield Provide for Turkey?

How Much Security Will NATO's Missile Defense Shield Provide for Turkey?

Fri, January 27, 2012 1:10 am

By agreeing to deploy the Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance System (AN/TPY-2) on Turkish so...[click here]

Saudi Air Force to Outnumber, Outclass and Outgun Israel’s Advanced US Jet Fleet

Saudi Air Force to Outnumber, Outclass and Outgun Israel's Advanced US Jet Fleet

Thu, January 26, 2012 15:46 pm

With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-...[click here]

Security and Defense: Israel is not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States

Security and Defense: Israel is not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States

Thu, January 26, 2012 15:20 pm

The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men...[click here]

Obama’s State of the Union Speech: My Response Discovers Some Curious Insights and Strange Formulations

Obama’s State of the Union Speech: My Response Discovers Some Curious Insights and Strange Formulations

Wed, January 25, 2012 19:19 pm

In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, pat...[click here]

America and the Arab Spring

America and the Arab Spring

Wed, January 25, 2012 16:51 pm

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president...[click here]

Azerbaijan foils Iranian-Hizballah terror strike against Jewish targets

Azerbaijan foils Iranian-Hizballah terror strike against Jewish targets

Wed, January 25, 2012 15:50 pm

A Hizballah cell backed by intelligence from Tehran and external Iranian terror cells in Turkey, Bul...[click here]

Where the “Counter-Obama” View of the Middle East is Right and Where It’s Wrong

Where the “Counter-Obama” View of the Middle East is Right and Where It’s Wrong

Tue, January 24, 2012 20:26 pm

Diehl’s challenge to the critics of the mainstream thinking on the Middle East is very serious... ...[click here]

The Unvarnished Reality of Contemporary U.S.-Israel Relations

The Unvarnished Reality of Contemporary U.S.-Israel Relations

Tue, January 24, 2012 19:31 pm

Do not speak of it in public. Do not expect any Israeli official to admit it. But Israel is facing a...[click here]

Gold for Oil: India to Pay Gold instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil

Gold for Oil: India to Pay Gold instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil

Tue, January 24, 2012 13:16 pm

India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US ...[click here]

Islamist Parties Dominate Egypt’s Parliament

Islamist Parties Dominate Egypt's Parliament

Mon, January 23, 2012 16:37 pm

We’re starting to get a good picture of what the lower house of Egypt’s parliament will be like....[click here]

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Hamas Exploiting Tunisian ‘Intifada’ as Islamist Challenge to Arab Nation...

January 21st, 2011

Hamas spokesmen (mostly unofficial) praise the popular Tunisian intifada (uprising) and expect a domino effect to lead to the downfall of Mahmoud Abbas and other pro-Western “dictatorial regimes.” However… Continue reading


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