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January 2006 |
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| January
31 |
| Feature: Islam on rise in Syria 25 years after revolt
crushed |
| Ilene Prusher: After victory, Hamas faces money crunch |
| Analysis: West faces difficult choices in dealing with
Hamas |
| Analysis: Hamas' Political Strategy |
| Analysis: Al-Zawahiri's New Tape |
| Iraq: Drop in Bombings Could Signal a Growing Rift |
| Uri Dan: Iran already has the bomb |
| Geopolitical Diary: Merkel in the Middle East |
| Helena Cobban: Hope for a Mideast resolution could grow
with Hamas |
| Muqtedar Khan: Hamas's victory - good for all |
| Travel Security: Common-Sense Measures for Leisure Time |
| Yoel Marcus: We don't need any favors |
| Amir Oren: Bay of Pigs to come |
| Ilene Prusher: After victory, Hamas faces money crunch |
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| January
30 |
| Russia's Sweetheart Deal for Iran - Valerie Lincy and Gary Milhollin |
| Analysis: Arab neighbours will work with Hamas-led cabinet |
| Jackson Diehl: Bush's Choice on Iran |
| Feature: Impoverished Gazans fear end of foreign aid |
| Walid Phares: The Hamas Gate.. |
| Dean Barnett: All Jihad All the Time |
| Kevin Peraino: Extreme Victory |
| Fareed Zakaria: Caught by Surprise. Again |
| Michael Slackman: A New Face in Iran Resurrects an Old
Defiance |
| Steven Weisman: Rice Admits U.S. Underestimated Hamas
Strength |
| Charles Levinson: Ballot-box win boosts Iraqi radical |
| Josh Mitnick: Israeli right may gain ground |
| Azzam Tamimi: Hamas will
make a deal |
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| January
29 |
| David Grossman: Can fanatics become pragmatists? |
| Gershon Baskin: The Hamas electoral victory |
| Jeff Jacoby: Hamas victory is good news |
| James Glanz: A Little Democracy or a Genie Unbottled |
| Jonathan Raban: 'My Holy War' |
| William Rugh: Anti-Americanism on Arab TV: Outsider
Observations |
| Robert Kagan: It's the Regime, Stupid |
| Scott Wilson: Some Palestinians See End of Secular Dream |
| Analysis: Wave of democracy pits Israel against 'Arab
street' |
| Zvi Bar'el: Give them the money |
| Gideon Levy: Only the right can |
| Con Coughlin: Don't blame Bush, this is Arafat's fault |
| Feature: Baghdad's newborn Siamese twins face long odds |
| Niall Ferguson: For all those who miss the Cold War, some
bad news
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| January
28 |
| Saudis: U.S. paved way for Hamas victory |
| Report: Iraq's WMD secreted in Syria, former Iraq general says |
| Glenn Kessler: U.S. Policy Seen as Big Loser in
Palestinian Vote |
| Victor Davis Hanson: Deconstructing bin Laden's talking
points |
| Policy Watch: America and Hamas |
| Gerald Kaufman: A triumph for Sharon |
| To Tame Tehran - Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani |
| Jim Hoagland: Living With Hamas's Victory |
| Sol Sanders: Bush never promised us a rose garden |
| E. J. Dionne Jr.: Two Elections and a Lesson |
| Feature: Dubai's 'Dragon' mall promotes Chinese products |
| U.K.-Russia: Terrorism Intelligence Caught Between a
'Rock' and a Hard Place |
| Kevin Matthews: Slouching Towards Lebanon |
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| January
27 |
| Anton La Guardia: Victory leaves Hamas with a dilemma |
| Alec Russell: Bush makes the best of ballot box blow |
| PNA: Hamas' New
Predicament |
| Geopolitical Diary:
Hamas at the Polls |
| Monica Duffy Toft: When terrorists go mainstream |
| Who's who in Hamas |
| Mark Sappenfield: Is the US Army prepared to fight
another Iraq-style war? |
| Feature: Iran's Jews uneasy over Holocaust-denier
Ahmadinejad |
| Ilene R. Prusher: Hamas win shatters status quo |
| Iran trying to ruffle Britain's feathers: analysts |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Terrorists en route to government |
| Nazir Majali: A heavy burden on Israel |
| Jonathan Spyer: Radical Islam - with sovereignty |
| Bradley Burston: Spin Cycle / And do they still want us
dead? |
| Howard LaFranch: Is democracy empowering Islamists? |
| Leader: The West and Hamas must talk to each other |
| Travel Security: Protecting Sensitive Information in
'Essential' Travel Devices |
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| January
26 |
| Profile: Hamas's Meshaal: hardliner who escaped Israeli
assassins |
| Profile: Hamas: legitimate resistance movement or terror
group? |
| Fact File: Iran, a major player in the global oil market |
| Analysis: Hamas faces political reality check after vote
win |
| OPEC set to ignore Iranian call to reduce output:
analysts |
| Fred Burton:
The Bin Laden Tape and the Strike in Damadola |
| Iran: Prolonging the Controversy |
| Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: The Mullah Wars |
| Glenn Kessler: Hamas Emerges as Significant Force Despite
U.S. Efforts |
| Mark Levine: A truce with Muslims |
| Peter Baker: The Realities of Exporting Democracy |
| Feature: Women bear brunt of poverty in post-invasion Iraq |
| Palestinians cast historic vote - Ilene R. Prusher and Joshua Mitnick |
| Walid Phares: Osama's unmistakable message |
| A. McLaughlin: In Africa, Islam and Christianity are
growing - and blending |
| Jeff Jacoby: Don't go wobbly on Iran |
| Hind Khoury: A six
per cent democracy |
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| January
25 |
| Analysis: Taboo-breaking Kuwait blazes trail for Gulf |
| Palestinian parties running for parliament |
| Major events in Palestinian history |
| Factfile on Palestinian territories |
| Main players in Palestinian poll |
| Iran: Unrest Within the Islamic Republic? |
| George Friedman:
Osama's Vietnam Syndrome |
| Ilene Prusher: Why Hamas is gaining in Palestinian polls |
| John Hughes: In dealing with Iran, no method is sure, but
save combat for last |
| Yossi Sarid: In a darkened seventh-floor room |
| Travel Security: Minimizing the Risk of Falling Victim to
Crime |
| Sergio Della Pergola: A question of numbers |
| U.S.: Seizing Pirates, Watching for Terrorists, in the
Horn of Africa |
| Analysis: A step forward for Palestinian democracy |
| Analysis: IDF doesn't know the outcome of the PA elections
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| January
24 |
| Analysis: Reshuffling of judges damages credibility of
Saddam trial |
| Fareed Zakaria: Time to Face Reality on Iran |
| Flynt Leverett: The Gulf Between Us |
| Peter Grier: Why US doesn't trust Iran on nukes |
| Tod Lindberg: The complexities of nuclear Iran |
| Douglas Borer: Why not test bin Laden's 'truce' offer? |
| Michael O'Hanlon: We Can't Stop Rebuilding Iraq |
| Claude Salhani: US must engage Hamas |
| H.D.S. Greenway: Muslim undesirables need not apply |
| Palestionain Election: Hamas steps into a complex
landscape |
| Aaron David Miller: The Palestinians' Crisis of Leadership |
| Monitor's View: A Palestinian pivot |
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| January
23 |
| Profile: Sheikh Sabah: Kuwait's seasoned strongman |
| Profile: Kuwait's emir: an ailing liberation hero |
| Interview: Iran stands by threat of retaliation |
| Main players in Palestinian poll |
| Danny Rubinstein: How Fatah responds to Hamas |
| Israel: Winners and losers: A preview |
| Baruch Kimmerling: The fence will never be a border |
| Alan Dershowitz: Spielberg's fictions |
| Iraq's next big hurdle: unity government |
| Palestinian Elections: Between zeal and pragmatism |
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| January
22 |
| Jeff Jacoby: Defeating Islamist extremism |
| Daoud Kuttab: Inside Palestinian elections |
| Mendel Zilberberg: The price of being accepted by the
world |
| Gideon Levy: A state held hostage by organized crime |
| Zvi Bar'el : Tzipi Livni's complaint |
| Interview: Fatah would win with Arafat: Shaath |
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| January
21 |
| Coming Soon: Nuclear Theocrats? |
| Analysis: Iraqis Urging Unity, but Rifts May Be Too Deep |
| Martin Walker: Israel's new dependence |
| Stephen Hayes: Prewar Iraqi documents are of more than
academic interest |
| Factfile on Palestinian territories |
| Mohamed Sid-Ahmed : A post-Sharon Middle East |
| Salama A Salama: Tehran stands its ground |
| Azmi Bishara: A monstrous rehabilitation |
| Iraq Eelctions: A step towards peace or abyss of civil
war? |
| Iraq's Election: New Government, Negotiations and
Violence |
| Telegraph Editorial: Democracy in Iraq doesn't mean unity |
| The Bin Laden Tape: Inconsistencies and Revelations |
| New Nations Bulletin: Immediate dangers - early 2006 |
| Mark Almond: Russia
is in retreat |
| Iran and Iraq: The Shia
Connection, Soft Power, and the Nuclear Factor |
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| January
20 |
| Iraq's parliament -- who's in, who's out |
| Osama bin Laden Tape: Taking Credit for Others' Work |
| Palestinian parties running for parliament |
| By Ze'ev Schiff: From Iran, a nuclearized Mideast? |
| Daniel Byman: Targeted killing, American-style |
| Bin Laden message: 'I'm still here.' |
| Analysis: Bin Laden re-appears |
| Dan Darling: Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist |
| David Ignatius: Containing Tehran |
| Analysis: Bombing shows Islamic Jihad has done its
homework |
| Analysis: Bomb in Tel Aviv shatters hopes |
| Analysis: PA's Dahlan and Hamas locked in personal
vendetta |
| Joshua Mitnick: Can moderate Abbas weather Hamas's rise? |
| Sanford Gottlieb: US spying isn't new |
| Travel Security: The Risks of Public Transportation |
| Charles Marsh: Wayward Christian Soldiers |
| Map Wars: The UAE Reclaims Lost Territory from Saudi
Arabia |
| Palestine's election: Hamas ahoy! |
| Guardian
Editorial: In the shadow of Bin Laden |
| Telegraph
Editorial: Diplomatic shake-up |
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| January
19 |
| Assad: London student who failed to live up to the West's
expectations |
| Patrick Bishop: Assad releases Damascus Spring rebels |
| Beware of 'Kramer': Tradecraft and the New Jihadists |
| Major events in Palestinian history |
| Switzerland: Securing the World Economic Forum |
| Faiza Saleh Ambah: Saudi Arabia tries to create a safer
hajj |
| Hilary Leila Krieger: Out in the open |
| Eliyahu Stern: Unkosher in Washington |
| Deepak Chopra: A proposal to 'rebrand' peace |
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| January
18 |
| George Friedman: Iran's Redefined Strategy |
| Julian Borger: US agency paints dire picture of
'out-of-control' Iraq |
| Howard LaFranchi: On Iran, West looks for a Plan B |
| Simon Heffer: Doing nothing in Iran is not an option |
| Simon Jenkins: The west has picked a fight with Iran that
it cannot win |
| Daniel Pipes: The pope and the Koran |
| Graig Smith: Warm and Fuzzy TV, Brought to You by Hamas |
| Charles Krauthammer: The Iran Charade, Part II |
| John Hughes: To progress, Islamic countries must advance
women's rights |
| Travel Security: Mitigating the Risk at Overseas Hotels |
| Jpost Editorial: Humanizing terrorism |
| Pakistan: Musharraf Speaks Out |
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| January
17 |
| Charles Levinson: US tries to loosen Shiite grip in Iraq |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Cheney and Netanyahu Pushing For War
Against Syria |
| War's stunning price tag - Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz |
| Nytimes Editorial: Disarray Among the Palestinians |
| Jpost Editorial: Time for 'Libya-plus' sanctions on Iran |
| Neil MacFarquhar: In tiny Arab state, Web takes on ruling
elite |
| Charles Krauthammer: The cunning deceit behind `Munich' |
| Analysis: Al-Zawahiri and the Trail of Tapes |
| Feature: Prague's Jewish Museum launches "Year of
Jewish Culture" |
| Ghassan Khatib: Undermining the Palestinian peace camp |
| Yossi Alpher: Another crisis temporarily averted |
| Mark
Steyn: Let's give Iran some of its own medicine |
| Munich: fact and
fantasy |
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| January
16 |
| Con Coughlin: Iran 'could go nuclear within three years' |
| Oil market alarmed by Iranian warning over higher
prices: analysts |
| Report: Bush and Sharon Agreed to Let Hamas Win |
| Feature: Hamas and Fatah battle it out in Gaza town |
| Brent Scowcroft: Focusing on 'Success' In Iraq |
| Tariq Ali: Iraq's destiny still rests between God, blood
and oil |
| Christine Spolar: Middle East democracy a goal, not a
reality |
| Elliot Jager: Iran - all that we don't know |
| Kevin Peraino: The Making of a Candidate |
| Leonardo Mauger: The Saudis May Have Enough Oil |
| Joe Klein: Israel's Quiet Crisis |
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| January
15 |
| Niall Ferguson:
The origins of the Great War of 2007 |
| Peter Beaumont:
Palestinians at war as blood feuds follow Israeli pullout |
| Massoud Ansari: 'We will cut them until Iran asks for
mercy' |
| Mark Helprin: The myth that shapes Bush's world |
| Politics: Iraq occupation a turning point for Kuwait
diplomacy |
| Reforms: Kuwaitis press for wider democratic reform |
| Economy: Kuwait rides road to prosperity as oil prices
soar |
| Profile: Kuwait's new emir: a now ailing liberation hero |
| Profile: Sheikh Sabah: Kuwait's seasoned strongman |
| Kuwait factfile |
| Yossi Klein Halevi: Israelis Must Continue What Sharon
Began |
| Marianna Belenkaya: Russian Islamic radicalism |
| Aparasim Ghosh: Why Iran Won't Back Down |
| Charles Moore: There's method in the Mahdi madness of
Iran's president |
| William Kristol: And Now Iran |
| Risky Business: HAS THE AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL from Iraq
begun? |
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| January
14 |
| Emily Flynn Vencat: Bleed the Enemy |
| Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical |
| Andrew Klavan: Why God chose the Jews |
| David Van Biema: What Was Robertson Thinking? |
| Globe Editorial: Iraqi fractures |
| Csmonitor: Avoiding critical mass with Iran |
| Feature: Hebron settlers vow to resist eviction |
| Sol Sanders: Fatal disconnect? Sort of searching for
'moderate' Islam |
| Travel Security: Self-Preservation Techniques for Airline
Passengers |
| Merkel, Bush: Getting Cozy in Washington |
| Iran: A New Phase of Diplomacy? |
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| January
13 |
| David Hirst: Iran and
Israel will be kings of the Middle East jungle |
| Timeline of Iran nuclear standoff |
| Paul Bremer: In Iraq, Wrongs Made a Right |
| Analysis: China faces dilemma over Iran standoff |
| Yoel Marcus: Sharon's extra-large shoes |
| Ze'ev Schiff : Olmert's strategic options |
| Feature: Sex and the electricity |
| PNA: Hamas' Changing Goals |
| Joshua Mitnick: Israel's epic generation passes torch |
| Nimrod Raphaeli: The Syrian Economy Under Bashar
al-Assad |
| Travel Security: The Importance of Understanding the
Risks |
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| January
12 |
| Chronology of deadliest incidents during hajj in Saudi |
| Israel's issues that Sharon left hanging |
| Kathleen and Bill Christinson: How Quickly They Forget the
Real Sharon |
| Feature: Muslims promote tolerant Islam at hajj |
| John Keegan: We should be very worried about Iran |
| Timothy Ash: Let's make sure we do better with Iran than
we did with Iraq |
| Leader: Tangling with Tehran |
| Analysis: Europe's Other Turkey Problem |
| Sudan: Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front |
| Peter Ford: Iran crosses last red line; UN sanctions
ahead? |
| Rafael Frankel: Sharon's legend grows among Israelis |
| Helena Cobban: Keep Israeli-Palestinian progress steady
at this critical hour |
| Ana;ysis: Thailand and the Possible Terrorist Threat to
Tourists |
| Charles Grant: India
tilts to the west as the world's new poles emerge |
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| January
11 |
| Iran-UN: Details of UN Security Council referral
procedure |
| Iran nukes: Utmost political risk in 2006 |
| Samuel Freedman: Christian Zionist support - a mixed
blessing |
| Daniel Pipes: Mission and mysticism |
| Robert Satloff: Good for Nothing |
| Fatahs Prospects in the Legislative Elections |
| Max Boot: Ariel Sharon's unending legacy |
| Telegraph Editorial: The West must call Russia's bluff on
Iran |
| The next phase of Sharonism might have defeated Sharon
himself |
| Feature: Mideast Barbie dolls don Islamic veil |
| Analysis: Dissecting the 'Chinese Miracle' |
| Analysis: The Thriving 'Gray' Arms Market |
| Ebrahim Moosa: Pilgrims at Heart |
| John Hughes: Absent Sharon, the US should keep the peace
process moving |
| Mark Sappenfield: Stakes in Iraq are high, but how high? |
| Tough response may
seem inevitable but could play into Tehran's hands |
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| January
10 |
| Iran's VIP Plane Crash: Sabotage or Accident? |
| Embassy Closures in Jordan: The Militant Threat Remains |
| Fareed Zakaria: The Things That Have Not Changed |
| Reuel Gerecht: 'Hearts and Minds' in Iraq |
| Arnauld De Borchgrave: Israel's new doctrine |
| H.D.S. Greenway: Peace -- on a warrior's terms |
| Ramit Plushnick-Masti: A Survivor, Sharon Now Faces Long
Odds |
| Yossi Alpher: The immediate challenges after Sharon |
| Ghassan Khatib: Potential for change after Sharon |
| Yisrael Harel: Not the end of an era |
| Hisham Ahmed: At a crossroads after Sharon |
| Ze'ev Schif: Nuclear Iran? An Isreali perpective |
| Sadegh Zibakalam: Iranian nationalism and the nuclear
issue |
| Sharon and the battle for Jewish demographics |
| Charles Krauthammer: What's ahead for the state of Israel?
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| January 9 |
| Aaron Belkin: Just a coup away |
| Howard LaFranchi: Peace prospects after Sharon |
| Lally Weymouth: For Sharon, A Fearless Crossing |
| Saree Makdisi: The whitewashing of Ariel Sharon |
| Tim Butcher: 'It is hard for Palestinians to feel
anything but hatred for him' |
| James Carroll: The arc of Ariel |
| Heart of a Nation - Kevin Peraino, Dan Ephron and Jeffrey Bartholet |
| Sharon: A personal portrait |
| Rami Khouri: The Measure Of the Man |
| Max Hastings:
Israel-Palestine conflict might be resolved by thinking globally |
| Iran's top mullah may be on our side - Dariush Zahedi and Ali Ezzatyar |
| Jackie Spinner: Hussein-Era Symbols Disappear Under Edict |
| Jpost Editorial: Message of the haj |
| Key dates since Abbas's election |
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| January 8 |
| Abbas one year on: security chaos, political uncertainty |
| Timeline of Sharon's health woes |
| Post Sharon:Ten Voices
on the New Era |
| Steven Erlnager: With Sharon Ill, Palestinians Face Own
Travails |
| Iraq replaces Afghanistan as centre of global terrorism:
analyst |
| James Bennet: History Interrupted |
| Alan Cooperman: Among Evangelicals, A Kinship With Jews |
| Bernard Wasserstein: The heir who can make Sharon's dream
a reality |
| Analysis: In bitter hindsight |
| Globe Editorial: The Cairo massacre |
| Jpost Editorial: Restraint and maturity |
| Jonathan Mahler: The Bush Administration vs. Salim Hamdan |
| Feature: Afghan immigrants dominate Saudi prayer mat
market |
| Mary Riddell:
Bullying Iran is not an option |
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| January 7 |
| Gideon Levy: The journey to Gaza |
| Doron Rosenblum: The magic is gone |
| Bradley Burston: The lie of Palestine |
| Aaron Klein: The Man Who Would Succeed Sharon |
| Peter Berkowitz: Ariel Sharon's Legacy |
| Amos Oz: Sharon, From muscle to mystery |
| Uri Dan: The Jewish Gulliver |
| Marvin Zonis: Iran and the crash of 2006 |
| U.S.: Aiding Intelligence with Secret Wiretaps |
| Stephen Hayes: Saddam's Terror Training Camps |
| Editorial: Egypt's farce |
| Israel: A sense of insecurity |
| Pamela Hass: Anbar province slowly getting police force |
| Uri Dromi: Sharon -- father figure |
| Jonathan Finer: With Promise of Airport, Investment in
Najaf Takes Off |
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| January 6 |
| Likely contenders to succeed Sharon |
| Fact File: Israel in a nutshell |
| David Grossman: How Sharon won Israel's trust |
| Iran, U.S.: Heading Off Post-Sharon Opportunism |
| Europe, Meet the Turkmenbashi |
| Israel: Change Agent |
| Israel: Sharon's last battle |
| Colin Coughlin: Sharon's unlikely legacy of peace will be
hard to overturn |
| Matthew Wagner: Most, but not all, heed call to prayer for
Sharon |
| Analysis: Sharon's legacy |
| Analysis: Olmert can win |
| Joshua Brilliant: 'Sharon illness hardly affects his
party' |
| Charles Krauthammer: A Calamity for Israel |
| Times Online: After Sharon |
| Finacial Times: A troubled Legacy |
| James Brandon: As Dubai thrives, an eye on political
reform |
| Evelyn Gordon: Fatah is no better than Hamas |
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| January 5 |
| Survey: Saudi Arabia, A long walk |
| Analysis: The acting Israeli prime minister |
| Analyis: Mideast facing turmoil after Sharon stroke |
| Analysis: Sharon's Condition Causes Turmoil |
| Analysis: The stroke that felled Sharon |
| Sharon: the burly warhorse turned man of peace |
| Analysis: A tragic end to Ariel Sharon's one-man show |
| Glenn Kessler: Bush at Risk of Losing Closest Mideast Ally |
| Sharon, Israel's seemingly indefatigable leader |
| Israel Must Learn to Live without Ariel Sharon at
Least for a While |
| Comment: What now? |
| James Risen: Did the
CIA give Iran the bomb? |
| Tony Karon: Without
Sharon, an Epic Gap |
| Lisa Anderson: Mideast democracy after the honeymoon |
| America's waning clout in Iraq - Jill Carroll and Dan Murphy |
| Howard LaFranchi: For pariah nations, 'rogue' status pays off |
| Michael Mandelbaum:
Davids Friend Goliath |
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| January 4 |
| Profile: New ruler of Dubai vies to associate Islam with
modernity |
| Profile: Late Dubai ruler had a passion for horse racing |
| United Arab Emirates factfile |
| Rafael Frankel: After Israel, who can run Gaza? |
| Scott Peterson: True believers dial messiah hotline in
Iran |
| Intelligence report claims nuclear market thriving |
| Analysis: Is U.S. planning to hit Iran? |
| Al Qaeda in 2006: Devolution and Adaptation |
| Iraq: Toward a Government of National Unity |
| Analysis: The return of the nightmare for Ariel Sharon |
| Gideon Samet: Balance the power |
| Secure the US against bloodless terrorist warfare - M. Ijaz and J. Abrahamson |
| Mark Sappenfield: US allies in Iraq, valuable but
dwindling |
| EU: Exploring Its Energy Options |
| Charmaine Seitz: Meet the Islamist vanguard |
| Yossi Alpher: Three devastating failures |
| Daniel Litvin: Oil,
gas and imperialism |
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| January 3 |
| Syria: Clamour for reform drowned out by a tide of
patriotism |
| Gershom Gorenberg: West Bank buildup |
| Samuel Segev: Arab unity a mirage in Mideast |
| H.D.S. Greenway: ... And reading the year ahead |
| Gideon Bachar: Blame the Mossad |
| Yoel Marcus: Four comments for 2006 |
| Yossi Sarid: Make them drink their sea of oil |
| Yoram Schweitzer : Hamas' participation: strategic or
tactical? |
| Ghazi Hamad: Palestinian elections are vital |
| Dan Murphy: Few choices for Egypt's Sudanese migrants |
| Jpost: Finish the fence |
| Gary Schmitt: Constitutional Spying The solution to the
FISA problem |
| William Kristol: The Paranoid Style In American Liberalism
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| January 2 |
| Jeff Jacoby: Questions the Islamic Society should answer |
| Brian Bennett: The
Sunni Backlash |
| Death in Cairo:
Anatomy of a Debacle |
| Madeleine Bunting:
Last year, the politics of global inequality came of age |
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| January 1 |
| Rami Khouri: A mixed year for a valiant Arab people |
| Zvi Bar'el: There is Arab public opinion |
| Avi Beker: American Jews' split personality |
| Michael Slackman: Making a Push on Pocketbook Issues |
| Gary Bass: Are Democracies Really More Peaceful? |
| Craig Whitlock: Trial of French Islamic Radical Sheds
Light on Converts' Role |
| Rethinking Nation-Building - Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart |
| War on Terror: The global war |
| Profile: Abdul Halim Khaddam |
| Economist: Gaza slides closer to chaos |
| Jonathan Powers: Behind veil of Iraq war, winds of peace |
| Analysis: The Year in Iraq |
| With no Palestinian
state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation |