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February 2006 |
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| February
28 |
| Walid Phares: A jihad window at the emirates gate? |
| C. Fred Bergsten: Avoiding Another Dubai |
| Monitor's View: Europe must find a home for its Muslims |
| Joshua Mitnick: One town doubts Hamas |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Abqaiq Attack |
| Pakistan: Musharraf on the Defensive |
| Haifa Zangana: Death of a professor |
| Yossi Sarid: Warmongering 'til it's bad for business |
| Mark Stein: 'Koran permit, must acquit' |
| The Region: Exposing Hamas |
| Yoel Marcus: Olmert's got a month left |
| Lori Lowenthal Marcus: A faux controversy - and ironic,
too |
| Analysis: Olmert holds off Likud |
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| February
27 |
| Sunni-Shia schism 'threatening to tear Iraq apart', says
conflict group |
| Sunni-Shia schism 'threatening to tear Iraq apart', says
conflict group |
| James Carroll: Civil war or holy war? |
| Feature: Egypt contemporary art seeks to step out of
Pharaohs' shadow |
| Jpost: Hamas immoderation |
| Analysis: Crisis Puts Al-Sadr at Forefront |
| Akiva Eldar: Choosing between Abbas and Hamas |
| Daoud Kuttab: Arab peoples' right to choose |
| Charles Krauthammer: Placing US security in Arab hands? |
| Shulamit Aloni: Stop scaring us! |
| Shmuel Rosner: Tea-party time in America |
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| February
26 |
| Analysts See Lebanonization of Iraq in Crystal Ball |
| Feature: Homegrown Ramadi police prepare to patrol Iraqi
streets |
| Feature: Egypt contemporary art seeks to step out of
Pharaohs' shadow |
| Niall Ferguson:Civilisations of modern world more likely
to collapse than collide |
| Francis Fukuyama: Neoconservatism has evolved into
something I can no longer support |
| Analysis: Paying the price of democracy |
| Lucy Stallworthy: Palestinian demographics challenged |
| Feature: Christians under cover |
| Ismail
Haniyeh: 'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea' |
| Analysis: Pope's red hats mostly political |
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| February 25 |
| Saudi Arabia: Anatomy of the Abqaiq Bombing Attempt |
| Saree Makdisi: Sanctions and the peace process |
| Frida Ghitis: No more kaffiyehs: Radical-chic confusion |
| Ports Controversy: No good options for an exit strategy |
| Christopher Dickey: What Price Xenophobia? |
| Saul Singer: Those jihadi grins |
| Saudi Arabia: A Shift in Al Qaeda's Thinking |
| Oil: Not Bomb Proof, But Still Hard to Hurt |
| Yosef Goell: Save the Jordan Valley |
| Saudi Arabia: Explosion Near Oil Refinery |
| Martin Kettle: It was our mistake that led to this
desecration and killing |
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| February 24 |
| Sectarian bloodshed in Iraq not yet civil war: analysts |
| Iraq: The Al-Askariyah Bombing's Threat to Stability |
| Geopolitical Diary: Implications of a Mosque Bombing |
| Donald Rumsfeld: War in the Information Age |
| Daniel Schorr: Back in the regime-change business |
| Simon Tisdall: All at sea in the Middle East's perfect
storm |
| Tony Karon: Who'll Stop an Iraq Civil War? |
| Mansoor Ijaz: Why Dubai is good for US business |
| Iraq: On the road to the Rubicon |
| In the name of Islam: Iraq's neighbours must do more to
halt violence |
| Sami Ramadani: Exit without a strategy |
| Kathleen Parker: The Bush Isle of Thanatos |
| Gamil Mattar: The prize of regional integration |
| Hassan Nafaa: In the shadow of a mad world |
| Mustafa El-Labbad: America as paper tiger? |
| Iraq: Enduring agony and fatal choice |
| Nytimes Editorial: Outrage in Samarra |
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| February
23 |
| Shlomo Gazit: Don't rush to judge with Hamas in power |
| Shiite Mosque Bombing in Iraq: Insurgents at Work? |
| Globe Editorial: Provocation in Samarra |
| David Hirst: Arab democracy is exposing the blind spot of
US policy |
| George Friedman: The United States and the 'Problem' of
Venezuela |
| U.S.: Uncovering a Suspected Jihadist Cell in the Midwest |
| Netanyahu's Fascist Record: All Roads Lead to Shultz |
| Cheney: Caught in the Act of Being Himself |
| Anton La Guardia: Iraq risks religious bloodbath |
| Iraq: Fanning sectarian
flames |
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| February
22 |
| Iraq: A U.S.-Shiite Rift |
| Analysis: The Terrorist Threat in the Persian Gulf |
| Feature: British troops take to sky to avoid roadside
killer |
| Fatwas and Rewards: An Inflection Point in the Cartoon
Controversy |
| Geopolitical Diary: The UAE and U.S. Ports |
| Tulin Daloglu: Democracy in the Middle East |
| A vision for Najaf:
Milton Keynes of the Middle East |
| Simon Tisdall: Reaction
to Hamas victory is gift to Iran's leaders |
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| February
21 |
| Syria: Public discontent empowering Islamist movement |
| High-tech weapons could minimize casualties in urban war |
| Jimmy Carter: Don't Punish the Palestinians |
| New questions on Saddam, WMD |
| Feature: Palestinian brewery to launch 'Hamas' near beer |
| Geopolitical Diary: Hamas Pushes the Envelope |
| Analysis: Hamas, Kadima and Their Respective Power Plays |
| Claude Salhani: Iraq - three years on |
| Iran Amok: Tehran plays host to al Qaeda |
| Yossi Alpher: Updating the Valley's strategic significance |
| Ghassan Khatib: Deepening the conflict |
| US dilemma: dealing with Hamas |
| Louis Beres: Palestinian state ahead |
| Ronald
D. Asmus: Contain Iran: Admit Israel to NATO |
| Simon Tisdall: Cartoon
row draws from well of discontent |
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| February
20 |
| Urban warfare now unavoidable: defence experts |
| Jpost Exclusive: US seeking Georgia's help in possible
Iran strike |
| Karl Vick: A bomb-builder emerges from the shadows |
| James
Carroll : Disease takes wing |
| Feature: British port deal widens Dubai's global reach |
| Paul Oestreicher: Israel's policies are feeding the
cancer of anti-semitism |
| Yair Sheleg: Religious Zionism as a full partner |
| Nazir Majal: Israel should stop pressuring Hamas |
| Danny Rubinstein: Standing fast on two states |
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| February
19 |
| Profile: Haniya -- a practical radical chosen as first
PM of Hamas |
| Gideon Levy: As the Hamas team laughs |
| Yossi Sarid: The fate of Cheney's friends |
| Claudia Rosett: Cash-for-Kofi |
| Christopher Caldwell: The Man Who Would Be le
Président |
| US Secretary Rice roundtable with Arab print journalists |
| Flemming
Rose: Why I Published Those Cartoons |
| Options
for Iran |
| Policy
on Iraq: Shoot first, think second |
| Nigel Farndale: Editors have no right to imperil
our troops |
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| February
18 |
| Edgar Bronfman: Muslims also deserve respect |
| Profile: Hamas MP named parliament speaker |
| Uri Dromi: Nuclear-armed Iran a threat to more than the
Mideast |
| Ze'ev Schiff: What the Palestinians have to lose |
| U.S. War Plans Against Iran Challenged by Presidential
Candidate |
| Meir Javedanfar: Iran's unhappy ayatollahs |
| France: The Rare Case of a Paris Kidnap-for-Ransom Gang |
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| February
17 |
| Analysis: Turkey gambles Israel ties with Hamas talks |
| Profile: Hamas PM frontrunner Haniya is pragmatic
radical |
| Iran: Searching for a Salsa Partner |
| Iran: The French Angle |
| Feature: Insurgents increasingly split over shedding
Iraqi blood |
| Analysis: The Risks of Hiring Infiltrators |
| Monitor's View: Toppling Tehran isn't a tea party |
| David Montero: Pakistani riots about more than cartoons |
| Joshua Brilliant: Israel to consider Hamas restrictions |
| Diana
West: Cartoon network |
| Shibley
Telhami: In the Mideast, the Third Way Is a Myth |
| David
Ignatius: Raw Politics in Iraq |
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| February
16 |
| Iraq: Herculean Tasks Ahead |
| United States: Progress of the “Freedom
Strategy” in the Middle East |
| Analysis: Cartoon spat a culture clash? |
| Anatomy of the Cartoon Protest Movement - Anthony Shadid and Kevin Sullivan |
| Geopolitical Diary: The MB and Mubarak's Countermeasures |
| Joshua Mitnick: Palestinian factions vie for spoils |
| Robert Steinback: Unwarranted violence can never be
righteous |
| Feature: Ethiopian Israelis love their country but not
the racism |
| Ellis Goldberg: Violence draws attention to Fatah |
| Simon Tisdall: Africa's
forgotten crises |
| Jasem al-Aqrab: The
Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie |
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| February
15 |
| Max Boot: The West as scapegoat |
| Arab-owned American ports? |
| George Friedman: The
Middle East and Russia's New Game |
| PNA: Hamas' Plans to Counter International Pressure |
| From Islamophobia to War: The Danish Cartoon Affair |
| EU: The Downward Spiral |
| Peter Grier: Why Iran's enrichment rattles the West |
| Paul Pillar: Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq |
| When Mobs Attack Multinationals Abroad: The Best Advice
is -- Run |
| Feature: Iraqi policemen shrug off classroom lessons on
human rights |
| Pentagon review:
America's Long War |
| US strategy: Fighting the
long war |
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| February 14 |
| Life Style: Cupid flutters over Saudi Arabia despite ban |
| First Iranian film at Berlinale in 30 years weaves from poetry to
politics |
| Iran: Pushing the Limits on Nuclear Power |
| H.D.S. Greenway: Tempest behind the turban |
| Geopolitical Diary: Jaafari for Prime Minister? |
| Russia, Iran: Moscow Gets Sidelined in Nuclear
Discussions |
| Iran: Setting the Stage for a Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty Withdrawal |
| Souheila Al-Jadda: Seeking love, American Muslim style |
| Michael Mandelbaum: David’s Friend Goliath |
| Ghassan Khatib: Questions asked of Israel |
| Yossi Alpher: We need a coherent strategy |
| Eyad El Sarraj: At a crossroads |
| Yossi Beilin: Israel's political options |
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| February 13 |
| Factfile on uranium enrichment |
| Timeline of Iran nuclear standoff |
| Niall Ferguson: Want historic trouble? Look south |
| James Carroll: Misunderstanding Muslims |
| Dan Murphy: Can Shiite Jaafari unify the new Iraq? |
| Abraham Foxman: Lessons from the cartoon jihad |
| Danny Rubinstein: Don't boycott the Palestinians |
| Shmuel Rosner: Keeping awareness of war alive |
| Daoud Kuttab: Palestinians absorb the new reality |
| Dan Pattir: Graphic anti-Semitism |
| Tariq Ali: This is
the real outrage |
| Leader: Behind Basra's
walls |
| Faeed Zakaria: The Decline and
Fall of Europe |
| Newsweek: The Tunnel Rats of
Terror |
| Middle East: Presenting a New
Face to the World |
| The Lion in Winter: Bashar
Assad's Self-Destruction |
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| February
12 |
| Profile: Jaafari, a conservative given a second chance
to run Iraq |
| Profile: Veteran diplomat takes over as Syrian FM |
| Mohammad Cartoons: Pointing the Finger |
| Syria's new government line-up |
| Al-Jazeera: The dream beam |
| Feature: Syrians revive the spirit of Old Damascus |
| Profile: Sharon, the former general fighting for life |
| Feature: Israeli, Palestinian audiences divided over
Paradise Now |
| Feature: Bird flu turns Iraqi villagers into outcasts |
| Fareena Alam: Why I
reject the anarchists who claim to speak for Islam |
| Why striking bus
drivers in Tehran are the real defenders of Muslim rights |
| Telegraph:
Where was the safe haven for terrorists? Here |
| Sunday Times: An end
to tolerance |
| Minnette Marrin:
Muslims are trading respect for fear |
| Andrew Sullivan:
Islamo-bullies get a free ride from the West |
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| February
11 |
| Iraq: A New Alliance Forms |
| Geopolitical Diary: A U.S.-Israeli Policy Rift? |
| Robert Kuttner: Preserve values in cartoons war |
| Facts and figures about Israel |
| Firas Al-Atraqchi: Who's behind the kidnaps? |
| Sunanda Datta-Ray: Taking God seiuosly |
| John Metzle: Cartoon context — tolerance is a two way
street |
| M.J. Rosenberg: The danger within |
| Hamas: Problem or solution? |
| Salama A Salama: Grapes of wrath |
| Joseph Massad: Hamas and the conditions of funding |
| Rhonda Roumani: We Didn't Start the Fire |
| Jonathan Steele: Europe's
cartoon battle lines are drawn in shades of grey |
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| February
10 |
| Analysis: Russia's Putin under international pressure
over Hamas invitation |
| Charles Krauthammer: Curse of the Moderates |
| David Ignatius: Hope Beyond the Rage? |
| Edward Luttwak: Would Iranians rally 'round the flag? |
| Herb Keinon: The caricature crisis through Israeli eyes |
| Walker's World: The Sunni-Shiite wars |
| Ze'ev Schiff : Does Israel have a strategy? |
| John Bunzl: Islam's Holocaust denial trap |
| Edward Morrissey: Giving in to radical Islam won't help
moderate Muslims |
| Zeev Sternhell: Democracy on a long vacation |
| Daniel Schorr: Balancing freedom and responsibility |
| Victor Davis Hanson: Connecting bad taste, freedom |
| Saudi Arabia: Abdullah's Sectarian Balancing Act |
| Chicago Tribune: Headaches for Hamas |
| Boston Globe: Those handy cartoons |
| Anas Altikriti: This is
not a cartoon war |
| Cartoon wars |
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| February
9 |
| Jamil Momand: What would Muhammad do? |
| Amr Hamzawy: America’s Arab Democracy Dilemma |
| Iraq: Al-Sadr's Road to Regional Prominence |
| Tariq Ramadan: At the crossroad of Islam, the West |
| Feature: Ill-equipped Iraqi army strikes out on its own |
| Feature: Marching on foot, Shiites defy rebels to reach Karbala |
| Aluf Benn: Hamas, the peace party |
| Walid Phares: The Cartoonesque Jihad |
| The Mohammed Cartoon Controversy: Security Implications
for Multinationals |
| Anne Applebaum: A Cartoon's Portrait of America |
| Nora Boustany: Superheroes Powered on Islam |
| Dafna Linzer: Strong Leads and Dead Ends in Nuclear Case
Against Iran |
| Kathleen Parke: The end of civilization was actually a
joke |
| Tony Blankley: Cartoons, but not the funnies |
| By Ayesha Akram: Muslim Americans split on cartoons |
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| February
8 |
| The Cartoon Backlash: Redefining Alignments |
| Kuwait: New Appointments and Growing Tensions |
| Geopolitical Diary: Hamas - Moving Forward and Saving
Face? |
| Olympics: Let the Games -- and Europe's Security
Challenge -- Begin |
| Muriel Mirak-Weissbach: Shades of Sykes-Picot are cast
over Southwest Asia |
| Sami Ramadani: Iraqi
voices are drowned out in a blizzard of occupiers' spin |
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| February
7 |
| H.D.S. Greenway: The power of the political cartoon |
| Charles Krauthammer: Palestine without smoke and mirrors |
| Sara Bjerg Moller: A caricature of respect |
| Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: Tolerance Toward Intolerance |
| Max Boot: Supporting repressive regimes encourages
extremism |
| Simon Robinson: An Israeli Attack Against Iran? |
| The Persian bomb: forbidden by all |
| Ramin Jahanbegloo: Iran's nuclear challenge |
| Tod Lindberg: What does Hamas's victory mean? |
| Walid Phares: The cartoon Offensive |
| Tom Gross: Drawing a line under hypocrisy |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran and the IAEA |
| Prison Break in Yemen: Risks of Incarcerating Terrorists
in the Middle East |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Iran showdown is the fuse for a global
monetary explosion |
| Tabish Khair: We have
lost our voice |
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| February
6 |
| Barbara Simpson: Let's everybody riot! |
| Feature: Behind the veil with the women of Gaza |
| Feature: Red Sea ferry tragedy hits Egypt's economic
migrants |
| Tucker Herbert: What Makes Iran Tick? |
| Behind the Urgent Diplomacy: A Sense Iran Will Get the
Bomb |
| James Brandon: Cartoon furor deepens divisions |
| Charles Levinson: Sunni tribes turn against jihadis |
| Leader: Why extremists treat us with contempt |
| Muslim Protests: Threats that must be countered |
| James Buchan: Freedoms in
the balance |
| Violence, fatwas and
online anti-Jew images: a world of protests |
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| February
5 |
| Walker's World: What's funny about Islam? |
| Claude Salhani: The Cartoon clash |
| Feature: Turkish film spills fictional GI blood to
cleanse country's honor |
| Feature: Searching Iraq's roads for deadly roadside
bombs |
| Paul Marshall: Western governments have nothing to
apologize for |
| Simon Jenkins: These cartoons don't defend free speech,
they threaten it |
| Michael Portillo: To spread democracy you have to let bad
guys win |
| Telegraph:
Democracy has a gun held to its head |
| Henry Porter: A few
bad cartoons are no reason to fall out |
| Observer: We must
put a stop to this savage bitterness |
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| February
4 |
| Analysis: The Importance of Protecting Evidence at a Bomb
Scene |
| Zvi Bar'el: Bad trip at the airport |
| Omayma Abdel-Latif: Implications of the new wave of
political Islam |
| Khaled Amayreh: The problem is Israel, not Hamas |
| Amr Hamzaw: Arab liberals unite! |
| Firas Al-Atraqchi: The state of Iraq is not good, Mr
President |
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| February
3 |
| Lost at sea: worst disasters of the past 100 years |
| Analysis: The Mohammed Cartoon and the Widening
European-Muslim Divide |
| Analysis: Saudi Arabia: Seeking Protection From a Nuclear
Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Regional Implications of Hamas Win |
| EU: Of Cartoons and What it Means to Be 'European' |
| State of the Union: Exploiting Fissures in the Energy
Security Movement |
| Howard LaFranchi: A more united front against Iran |
| Mustafa Abu Sway: Kidnapping foreign visitors: an Islamic
perspective |
| Ori Nir: Israelis Scrambling To Harden Bush on Hamas |
| Jeffry Mallow: Cartoons of Prophet Spark Boycott by Arabs
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 Nathan Brown:
After the Hamas Tsunami |
| Timeline: the road to war
in Iraq |
| Leader: Cartoons and
their context |
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| February
2 |
| Background: Idolatry a 'great sin' in Islam |
| Timeline of Iran nuclear standoff |
| Geopolitical Diary: Reading Bush's State of the Union |
| India: Singh Takes Over Foreign Affairs |
| Palestinian tilt the whole
Middle East - Publishers overview,
New Nations |
| Feature: Sanitary teams cull birds in Kurdish hot zone |
| Abbas William Samii: In the shadow of Iran's nuclear
threat |
| Peter Grier: What's driving the kidnappings in Iraq |
| Khaled Meshaal: 'We shall never recognize... a Zionist
state on our soil' |
| Leader: Tough talk from
Tehran |
| On Iran, the French are
from Mars and the Americans are from Venus |
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| February
1 |
| Geopolitical Intelligence Report: The New Power in the PNA |
| Analysis: Onus on Russia as clock ticks down on Iran
nuclear solution |
| Richard Cohen: Don't Be Fooled by Hamas |
| John Hughes: In Mideast, Hamas win is a setback |
| Helle Dale: Fundamentalist polulism run amok |
| Jonathan Freedland: What Hamas could learn from the early
Zionists |
| Al-Zawahiri Tape: Key Insights into Al Qaeda Prime |
| Iran: A Turning Point Without Consequences |
| Geopolitical Diary: Video Message From Al-Zawahiri |
| Simon Tisdall: Resistance grows to US assumption of primacy |
| Ilene Prusher: Will Hamas change course? |
| Claude Salhani: Al-Jazeera in English? Soon |
| Iran: The slow road to sanctions |
| Sate of the Union: Bush's
world |
| Turkey: Between the
West and the Middle East |
