Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are, to borrow the language of a mechanic, putting the pedal to the metal on a car sitting high up on a hydraulic jack.
In other words, it’s full gas in neutral.
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Western Europe has a Muslim problem, and it is particularly acute in Great Britain, which is more intimately linked to constitutional traditions and procedures. The French are quietly aghast at the presence of 5 million Muslims in their midst and are endeavoring to cope. But that is a country which is enjoying (or accommodating) its Fifth Republic. If a Sixth Republic were introduced in the years ahead, one would not think the event mortally destabilizing.
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To critics’ eyes the work is a deliberate act of cultural vandalism
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The military headquarters of Hamas in Damascus has ordered militants in the West Bank to carry out a major attack inside Israel, the deputy chief of the Shin Bet security service told government ministers on Sunday.
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CAIRO, Egypt — Saudi Arabia has indefinitely banned the distribution of a leading Arab newspaper, days after the paper disclosed that a Saudi extremist had played a key role in a violent Iraqi al-Qaida front group.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
BOISE, Idaho (CNN) — Sen. Larry Craig, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after an incident in an airport restroom, is losing support among conservatives and Republicans in his home state of Idaho.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | 5 comments
LAREDO — The Rev. Jose Maria Weyne had an unusual question for his congregation to open Wednesday’s morning Mass.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | One comment
There is little arguing in Anglican pews locally when it comes to blessing same sex unions.
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Mearsheimer and Walt are not anti-Semites or racists. They are serious scholars, and there is no reason to doubt their sincerity
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak attending the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting in Jerusalem on Monday. (Tomer Neuberg / Jini)
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