Tag: arab
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June 04, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
In December of 2007 a Rape victim in Saudi Arabia was pardoned after being sentenced to jail and 200 lashes. It was then that many of us were introduced to the idea of honor killings. In case . . . more
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December 23, 2006 08:40 PM EST --
Yesterday I was on the Underground travelling on the District line.
A man of Arabic appearance got off the train and I noticed that he had left his bag behind. I grabbed the bag and ran after him, caught . . . more
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May 20, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
As the Arab Shiites have never had a home country in the past thousand years or so, and Bush handed them the reigns of Iraq by overthrowing Saddam, who in this world thinks that they will give that up? . . . more
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September 24, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
Ahmadinejad is not Hitler - at least not yet. Suppose Hitler had wanted to speak at Columbia in 1943, when America was formally at war with Germany? I'm pretty sure that had he been so . . . more
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September 17, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
"Why was "sheik" Abu Risha so important? As the New York Times put it this morning, "Abu Risha had become a charismatic symbol of the security gains in Sunni areas that . . . more
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May 28, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
The latest homepage poll on Gather asks " Dunkin' Donuts is pulling an ad featuring pitch woman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that resembles a garment traditionally worn by Arab men. Did Dunkin' . . . more
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July 27, 2006 11:17 AM EDT --
"An Arab Newspaper"
A Jewish man was riding on the subway
reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of
his, who happened to be riding in the
same subway car, noticed this strange
phenomenon. Very . . . more
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October 07, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, and the author of “American Gospel” and “Franklin and Winston,” writes in the New York Times:
[....The only acknowledgment . . . more
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November 06, 2007 03:24 PM EST --
Read
T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
T.E. Lawrence was a young man who had studied Arabic, the Koran and Arab history. He was a non-commissioned . . . more
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September 28, 2008 12:43 PM EDT --
Dan and I are about to head out to the west side to go to a cider mill and then have arabic food. What are you up to today?
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July 27, 2006 11:13 AM EDT --
Justice...
A fleeing Al Qaeda guerilla, desperate for water, was plodding through the desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he walked toward . . . more
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July 20, 2006 12:26 PM EDT --
The Iraqi Prime Minister formally denounced Israel's actions in Lebanon. This is the first time that Iraq has now formally taken a position that breaks it with the USA. What will this mean for our . . . more
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January 15, 2007 04:56 PM EST --
I thought Mr. Dershowitz' Gather column was a well-written essay and compilation of the information about the possible sources (funding sources?) of President Carter's one-sided book (and interviews, . . . more
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February 26, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Gather.com recently promoted a six-part series of articles by Alan M. Dershowitz entitled "Ex-President for Sale" written in response to the publication of the book "Palestine Peace Not . . . more
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June 19, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
The creation of a new moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank has been welcomed in the West. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas kicked Hamas out of the Palestinian unity government last week . . . more
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July 23, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
The Nation, in it's July 30, 2007 issue, has an article Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul on the antiwar Texas Republican's pulling more campaign contributions from the . . . more
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May 10, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
I can't believe Mr. Bloomburg and Mr. Kline have been so swayed by the Islamo-accomodative camp that they would even consider setting up a New York Arabic language school in which to teach studies . . . more
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April 24, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
I love appetizers. It is not uncommon for my husband, Dov, and me to order five or six of them and skip the entree altogether. That way you get to try alot of different things and . . . more
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August 14, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
A few responses from various countries to the former German intelligence analyst's wide-ranging series of articles on European and United States' foreign policy, focused on the current Middle East. . . . more
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April 03, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
Aaron David Miller was a top US Middle East negotiator for most of two decades. From Oslo and before to 9/11, he was there -- watching, advising, in the thick of America's peacemaking coups, . . . more
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