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Mideast Opeds
June 2007 |
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| June 30 |
| U.K.: Second Explosive Device, Poor Tradecraft |
| Chechnya: Militants for Hire, Relocation a Must |
| Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf's Mini-Reshuffle of Corps
Commanders |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Prince Bandar and 9/11 |
| John Gray: A trail of terror stretching 200 years |
| Nehemia Shtrasler: Peace is cheaper |
| Daunting goal for Middle East envoy |
| Ofir Haivry: Was there ever a Palestinian 'nation'? |
| Egypt bans female circumcision |
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| June 29 |
| Jake Lipton: The War of Words between Hamas and al-Qaeda |
| United Kingdom: London's Crude Incendiary Device |
| Palestine: Taliban versus Mujahideen - Walid Phares |
| The unhappy hookah |
| Hassan Nafaa: Beyond conspiracy |
| Amr Hamzawy: Why discuss democracy? |
| Transcript of President Bush's remarks at the War College |
| Life in the Gaza Strip |
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| June 28 |
| Iran: Is fuel
rationing a spark in a powder keg? |
| Elias Harfouch: Iran's Gasoline on Fire |
| Gunning for Al Qaeda Prime - Fred Burton and Scott Stewart |
| Rethinking US 'Grand Strategy' for the New Palestinian
Authority |
| Iraq rushes to guard its mosques |
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| June 27 |
| Sharm el-Sheikh: A Substitute for Mecca |
| Israel: A tabloid state |
| First big wave of Iraqi refugees heads for the US |
| Andrew Bacevich: What America owes the Iraqis |
| 'Anbar model' under fire |
| Competing visions for Palestinians |
| Joshua Brilliant: Mideast summit produces hope |
| Analysis: Saudi King, Mubarak insist on "Palestinian
unity" |
| Kuwait: The Oil Minister Controversy |
| Charles Krauthammer: Gaza's split clarifies the dilemma |
| Sally Quinn: A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney |
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| June 26 |
| Aanlysis: Four-way summit serves as a show of support for
Abbas |
| Who are the Kurds? |
| Analysis: Putting Hostages in Harm's Way |
| Geopolitical Diary: Reality Sets in on EU Treaty |
| Why Iran Isn't Cheering |
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| June 25 |
| America's Axe and Iran's Arrogance |
| All hopes now hinge on Abbas, but his baggage weighs down
his chances |
| Uncertainty for Hamas in West Bank |
| Taliban turn gunsights to Afghan police |
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| June 24 |
| '50,000 Iraqi refugees' forced into prostitution in
Syria |
| Fatah vows to wipe Hamas from West Bank |
| Iraq: The Awakening of the US and of Clans |
| Hazem Saghieh: The Palestinian Cause and the Cause of
Palestinians |
| The Sharm El-Sheikh Summit & the Interests of Egypt |
| West Bank and Gaza: More trouble ahead |
| Michael Freund: Take back Gaza now |
| Gideon Levy: Let Gaza live |
| Ahmed Abdel-Halim: What is happening in Palestine? |
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| June 23 |
| Iraq's Vulnerable Christians |
| Israel air force training for distance missions |
| Iran takes step nearer to a nuclear bomb |
| Iraq: Partition may be the only solution |
| Robert Fisk: How can Blair possibly be given this job? |
| Franchising Al Qaeda - Rita Katz and Josh Deven |
| Charles Krauthammer: Last Chance for Abbas |
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| June 22 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Potential Outcome of an Arab
Confrontation with Hamas |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Saudi Role in a Deal over Iraq |
| Joseph Margulies: Where law reigns, terror withers |
| John Cooley: West should commend Qaddafi's reforms with
caution |
| Abu Mazen's Options In the Aftermath of Hamas' Coup
d'Etat |
| Haniyeh and the Suicide Operation |
| Sparing the West Bank the Fate of Gaza |
| Hassan Haydar: Hamas turns against history |
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| June 21 |
| Zuheir Kseibati: Summer Confrontation Lines |
| On Gaza's borders, anxiety mounts |
| The scene of Fatahland flowering as Hamastan wilts is
sheer fantasy |
| The world's predominant faiths should protect religious
freedom for all |
| Fred Burton: The Quiet Campaign against al Qaeda's Local
Nodes |
| US military's new Iraq strategy: religious conciliation
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| John Hughes: In battle for hearts and minds, Iraqi
insurgents are doing well |
| Egypt and Jordan quietly back Abbas, too |
| John Hughes: In battle for hearts and minds, Iraqi
insurgents are doing well |
| Egypt and Jordan quietly back Abbas, too |
| New push for Mideast peace |
| Bid underway to name Blair special Middle East envoy |
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| June 20 |
| George Friedman: The Geopolitics of the Palestinians |
| Randa Takieddin: King Abdullah's Landmark Visit to
France |
| Saree Makdisi: West chooses Fatah, but Palestinians
don't |
| 'Christians must accept Islamic rule' |
| Martin Sherman: Something is rotten in State of Israel |
| Ahmed Yousef: Engage With Hamas |
| By Trudy Rubin: Three big `ifs' in Iraq |
| Iraq: A New Offensive in Diyala |
| Dennis Ross: What Went Wrong |
| Pakistan: Musharraf Considers an Alternative Strategy |
| Israel's sudden Gaza dilemma |
| Carl Minzner: After Iraq war, resist the isolationist
impulse |
| Could Pakistan fall to extremists? |
| An Iraqi city resists violence |
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| June 19 |
| Staring at Syria |
| Hamas' Questionable Intelligence Windfall |
| Iraq: Sectarian Concerns and the High-Stake U.S.-Iranian
Talks |
| PNA: Hamas, Hostages and Political Legitimacy |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Russian-Western Tug-of-War |
| Abdullah Iskandar: The Arabs are Concerned Parties not
Mediators |
| Hazem Saghieh: The Challenge Posed by Gaza to the Arab
'Moderation' |
| Bob Zelnick: Amid chaos, a chance for progress |
| Radicalization, despair in the Mideast |
| Hamas and the 2nd Six Day War: Implications, Challenges,
and Opportunities |
| After the showdown |
| Palestinian split rattles region |
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| June 18 |
| Arnaud de Borchgrave: Middle East misery |
| Holding a mirror up to Israeli destiny, the past and the
prologue |
| Iraq: Plight of refugees worsens as Syria, Jordan
impose restrictions |
| Iraq on verge of genocidal war, warns ex-US official |
| Nial Furguson: Yes, the Mideast matters |
| The US role in Mideast travails |
| How to handle Hamas |
| Munich 1934, Gaza City 2007 |
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| June 17 |
| Palestinian civil war about to become a wider conflict |
| Jeffrey Steinberg: Scandal of the Century Rocks British Crown and the City |
| Analysis: Stopping Hamas horror show from moving forward |
| Tariq Al-Maeena: The democracy of Bushism |
| Why Gaza Matters to U.S., the World |
| Will promoting democracy backfire? |
| Analysis: Hamas' seizure of Gaza a blow Bush's two-state
vision |
| Comparing the Two Territories |
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| June 16 |
| Abbas clings on after bloody Palestinian week |
| Patrick Buchanan: On the Escalator to War With Iran |
| PNA, Israel: The Future of the Southern Levant |
| Gaza: How war was turned into a brand |
| Analysis: Abbas studies his limited options |
| Geopolitical Diary: Putin and Merkel face off over
Kosovo |
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| June 15 |
| Islamic rule has arrived, says Hamas |
| Daniel Schorr: America's undisclosed vice president |
| As Gaza unravels, Palestinians flee |
| Damascus, Tehran's wager on a bargain policy with
Washington |
| Maher Othman: Gaza & the Impossible Alternative |
| Con Coughlin: Fundamentalists threaten Israel from all
sides |
| Analysis: Little to celebrate at the birth of 'Hamastan' |
| Analysis: A community ruled by the gun |
| Gaza Fact File |
| Gaza: Four days of war |
| Samarra shrine attack: less incendiary now? |
| Hamas nearly wins control of Gaza |
| Analysis: Hamas seizes large Gazan areas |
| In beleaguered Israel, a return to the old guard |
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| June 14 |
| Iraq: Jihadist Attacks and Derailing Talks |
| Geopolitical Diary: Washington and the Musharraf
Administration's Future |
| Fred Burton: Surveillance in the Information Age |
| Daniel Pipes: Can the IAF take out Iran's nukes? |
| The road to Hamastan |
| Faced with the tragedy of Iraq, the US must rethink its
whole foreign policy |
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| June 13 |
| Israel-Syria: Talking of peace, preparing for war |
| Hamas bids for total control of Gaza |
| Analysis: Gaza clashes peak |
| Background: The Al-Askari Mosque of Samarra |
| Profile: Shimon Peres - no longer Israel's "serial
loser" |
| Palestinian Battles Raise Fears of Coup And Civil War |
| Iraqi Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based
Snapshot |
| Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures
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| George Friedman : Russia Using Missile Defense as a
Geopolitical Lever |
| Geopolitical Diary: France Changes Direction |
| Turkey: The PKK Cease-Fire and Iraqi Kurds' Ambitions |
| Pakistan: The Problems With Musharraf's Survival Plan |
| Saudi Arabia: Shi'a Pessimistic About Reform, but Seek
Reconciliation |
| Dubai Inc: Development and Governance, not Democracy |
| Iraq: Kurdistan's Tenuous Model |
| Algeria: Bouteflika and Civil-Military Relations |
| Arab States: The Paradox of Press Freedom |
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| June 12 |
| US signals permanent stay in Iraq |
| Iraq: The Sunnis' Struggle to Get Their House in Order |
| Turkey in Iraq? Don't even go there. |
| Egypt vote shows unease with democracy |
| US civilians drive Iraq's other surge |
| Jihad el-Khazen: I accuse the Bush administration of
terrorism |
| Elias Harfouch: Risks of Confrontation between Turkey
and Kurds |
| Michael Slackman: A compass that can clash with modern
life |
| Elyakim Haetzni: Deal with Syria has huge price tag |
| Peres, Israel's indefatigable statesman |
| Bombing in Turkey: Usual Suspects or Military Action? |
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| June 11 |
| Patrick Seale: Iraq Withdrawal won't happen |
| Zuheir Ksiebati: Between The Two 'Refraining' Sides |
| Jamil Ziabi: Revolution of Fatwas in Egypt |
| Exiled Syrian reformer urges return of Golan - but not to
Assad |
| Officials: Iran, Syria orchestrated raid on Jewish state |
| Patrick Lang: Show Russia more respect |
| With an agenda of hope, Iraqi media mogul funds the arts |
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| June 10 |
| Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plants |
| Mohamed Salah: The Battle Over Slogans In Egypt |
| Putin: How worried should the West be? |
| Iraq: New U.S. ambassador may be best hope |
| Syria facing Iraqi refugee crisis |
| Shimon Peres: Who wants peace in the Middle East? |
| Gideon Levy: Little Ahmadinejads |
| Analysis: Which track, if any, should Israel pursue? |
| Zvi Barel: Best indeed to prepare for war |
| U.S. administration opposes renewal of Israeli-Syrian
talks |
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| June 9 |
| Israelis ask, what have we gained since the ’67
war? |
| Oiling the wheels of war: smuggling becomes the real economy of Iraq |
| Iraq's Dangerous Diyala Province - Stratfor |
| Geopolitical Diary: Understanding Putin's Missile-Defense Offer |
| Europe: The Decline of the Left |
| Pakistan: The Future Military Leadership |
| Al Qaeda's 'War' on India |
| Jeffrey Steinberg:
Hitler 1938, Cheney 2007? |
| Blair refuses to order fresh BAE arms inquiry |
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| June 8 |
| Secrets of al-Yamamah |
| Maher Othman: Syria and US-Israeli Browbeating |
| Jihad el-Khazen: The Zionist Crone |
| Raghida Dergham: The Positive Role Putin Can Play |
| Kamal Said Qadir:
Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral |
| New White House plan: Keep US troops in Iraq permanently |
| Russia, U.S.: Putin Tells Bush Where to Put His Missile
Defense System |
| In shift, Bush draws NATO into controversial
missile-shield plans |
| Mideast peace plan faces hurdles |
| Benchmarks: Escalating war |
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| June 7 |
| Could US repel a cyberattack? |
| Iraq: A baker's son driven by faith |
| Israelis protest to mark Six-Day War |
| Sandy Tolan: Four decades of occupation |
| There's one thing the US presidential contenders all
have in common: God |
| Iraq: the first Shiite Arab state? |
| Where are Israel, Syria headed? |
| A fool's errand - Karl Moor and Daviv Rivkin |
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| June 6 |
| Iraq, Turkey: Incursion Likely a False Alarm -- This
Time |
| Geopolitical Diary: NATO in Crisis |
| The origins of Shiite Islam |
| In Tehran's Martyrs' Museum, Iran courts new believers |
| Randa Takieddin: Who Can Shake Iran's Economy? |
| The End of the Kyoto Protocol - Startfor |
| Egypt: Taking a Backseat in the Middle East |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Meltdown of the Musharraf State |
| Emanuele Ottolenghi: Middle Eastern Agenda for President
Bush in Europe |
| Lebanese army keeps up pressure on Islamists |
| Arab Bloggers Face Government Crackdowns |
| Meir Shalev: Israel's lost 40 years |
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| June 5 |
| Ghassan Rubeiz: The challenge of US, Arab fundamentalism |
| Forty years later, two view from the West Bank's Road 60 |
| H.D.S. Greenway: Lost hope in the West Bank |
| Tom Segev: What if Israel Had Turned Back? |
| Anne Applebaum: Putin is playing a dangerous game |
| The JFK Airport Plot and the Caribbean Connection |
| Aluf Benn: Olmert's aides fear talks with Syria could
harm relations with US |
| Is Putin the bully leading Russia into fascism? |
| Sarkozy determined to make his mark |
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| June 4 |
| 6 Day War, 40 years of lost Mideast hope |
| Dennis Ross: The Specter of 'Hamastan |
| Moktada al-Sadr, an enemy we can work with |
| Zvi Bar'el : Squandering the Assad legacy |
| Zuheir Kseibati: A Rebel and Madmen |
| Jihad el-Khazen: Stubbornness is no policy |
| Not so happy birthdays, 40 years on from 1967 war |
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| June 3 |
| Walid Khadduri: Impact of political pressures on Iran
production capacity |
| Maher Othman: Johnston's Kidnappers |
| Jihad el-Khazen: The Arab Disease |
| Europe shivering in the new Cold War |
| Gazans fear rise of new Islamic zealots |
| Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali: Pakistan is at a highly
dangerous crossroads |
| South and North, Iraqi Kurds Squeezed |
| Zakaria: How to Restore America's Place in the World |
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| June 2 |
| Iraq: The Implications of Five Kidnapped Britons' Fate |
| Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf Cracks Down |
| Building on a Vacuum: Ways Forward after the U.S.-Iranian
Meeting |
| Harvey Morris: And on
the sixth day the world changed |
| Joshua Brilliant: Israel intelligence debate |
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| June 1 |
| Baghdad’s Sunni residents battle insurgents |
| Elias Harfouch: A 'Velvet Revolution' in Iran? |
| Daniel Schorr: On Darfur, Bush calls a spade a spade |
| Arabic school in N.Y.C. creates stir |
| Opinion: The jihadists strike while the iron is hot |
| Iraq: Nationalists vs. Jihadists and the Sunni Split |
| Henry Kissinger: The lessons of Vietnam |
| Geopolitical Diary: Keeping U.S. Troops in Iraq |
| Michael Hirsh: Icy G8 Meeting for U.S., Russia |
| Walter Reich: King Herod's return |
| Young US Muslims: a threat? |
| Christopher Hitchens: The French Correction |
