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As more WikiLeaks documents are leaked to the media, the feeling grows that the American administration has abandoned its friends around the Middle East. Documents show clearly that most leaders of Arab countries have pleaded...

Prof. Michael Keefer Dr. Catherine Chatterley RIGHT OF REPLY: MICHAEL KEEFER RESPONDS TO CATHERINE CHATTERLEY by Michael Keefer, Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, November 23, 2010 I applaud Dr. Catherine Chatterley’s statement (in...

Who killed Rafik Hariri? His assassination in February 2005 rocked the power arrangements in the Middle East and turned him into an overarching symbol of everything that was wrong in Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) It wasn't...

Pres. Obama seems surprised that Bibi is so insistent on dotting the i's and crossing the t's in his letter of guarantees in order to extend the building moratorium for another 90 days. It’s...

In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...

"Tedious" We've been there, done that. Plans for building in Jerusalem east of the Green Line are announced, and the world goes slightly berserk. It is really tiresome. Word from the government here is that 1) these...

Anti-Semitic Cartoon of the website of the Islamic World Peace Forum. The Director general of this Iran Based group was scheduled to speak at the conference promoted by the RCMP. Sayeh Hassan, pro-democracy Iranian Canadian...

In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The National Association of...

Lest anyone have mistakenly imagined that my last posting about hope http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4180&q=1 (which certainly exists now !) signaled a whole new ballgame, with problems instantaneously diminished on all fronts, I state unequivocally that I...

"Hope Renewed" The Republican win in the House of Representatives and near-win in the Senate on Tuesday certainly give great hope to all of us who have been despairing of the direction the US government...