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May 2010 |
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| May 31 |
| Analysis: Killings could boomerang on Israel |
| Israel: Consequences of the Flotilla Raid |
| Israeli attack on Gaza aid ship: analysis |
| Gaza: Difficult times call for dangerous jobs |
| Chris Phillips: US hegemony in Middle East is ending |
| Olivia Hampton: On Memorial Day, the war continues |
| Leonard Spector: Worry furrows the world |
| Diana Mukkaled: Cartoons…Again and Again |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: Al Sistani Fears the Distance |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: The Confused Face of Fascism:
Israel’s Frankenstein |
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| May 30 |
| David Hirst : The US, Saddam and Sharon |
| Feature: Egypt's upper house elections come amid political frenzy |
| A Tale of Two Emerging Powers |
| Iran, Bulgaria: Activity in Sofia a Prelude to
Iranian-U.S. Talks? |
| U.S. Churches Speak Out for Iraq's Struggling Christians |
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| May 29 |
| Pakistan: Post-Mortem on Lahore Attacks |
| Nehemia Shtrasler: Our bleeding-heart prime minister |
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| May 28 |
| Everyone and No One: Iraq Heads toward a Unity Government |
| Iran, Russia: A Possible Kremlin Shift and Frayed
Iranian Nerves |
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| May 27 |
| What did China get for backing Iran sanctions? |
| Europe's burqa rage |
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| May 26 |
| US sends more soldiers on covert missions |
| A potential Turkish-Israeli crisis and its international
implications |
| Kuwait's Islamists back on their feet |
| George Friedman: Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario |
| Thomas Friedman: As Ugly as It Gets |
| Geopolitical Diary: Washington Strengthens Its
Bargaining Position |
| Katrina vanden Heuvel: A flawed strategy and a failed war
in Afghanistan |
| Akiva Eldar: Obama's Jewish minefield is Israel's bomb |
| Aluf Benn: Prayer for the health of the rais |
| Iran: A Letter to the IAEA |
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| May 25 |
| Hussein Shobokshi: Israel's Transfer Scheme |
| David Pollock: Cairo and counting |
| Khalil Shikaki: Palestinians want US role even if they
don't like it |
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| May 24 |
| Mohamed Yossif: Why does it matter to Washington? |
| James Zogby: Arab attitudes one year after Cairo |
| Iraq prison system blamed for big rise in al-Qaida
violence |
| Zvi Bar'el: Iran's safety belt |
| Amir Oren: The new military front - Barak versus
Ashkenazi |
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| May 23 |
| It’s springtime in Syria but how long will it last? |
| Garoline Glick: S. Korea, N. Korea, Israel and Iran |
| Karzai’s Washington visit: The war awaiting
Kandahar |
| The Obama effect -- Are you with him or against him? |
| Anathony Shadid: In Baghdad Ruins, Remains of a Cultural
Bridge |
| Charles Krauthammer: This is an America in retreat |
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| May 22 |
| Analyzing the New UN Sanctions Proposal on Iran |
| Iran: A Muted Response to the U.S. Sanctions Threat |
| Geopolitical Diary: The United Nations Perception Divide |
| Hezbollah shows off weaponry in Lebanon 'tourist complex' |
| U.S.: We have 'grave concerns' about arming of Hezbollah |
| German envoy Westerwelle says world needs peace in
Mideast |
| Bassel Ouda: Louder than words |
| Egypt: Historically apolitical, Sufis now side with the
state |
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| May 21 |
| Iran, Saudi Arabia: A Rare Meeting of Top Officials |
| Russia: German Scientists Working on Bushehr Arrested |
| Iraq's middle class short on hope |
| Israel is learning to live with a nuclear Iran |
| Transformation of Turkey |
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| May 20 |
| Lessons from the Iran Nuclear Developments |
| Turkey's New Political Balance: Old AKP and New Kemalism |
| Iran: The al Qaeda refuge no one wants to talk about |
| Geopolitical Diary: The U.S.-Pakistan Conundrum and
Europe's Existential Test |
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| May 19 |
| Geopolitical Diary: What a U.S.-Iran Entente Would Look
Like |
| Why Has Uncle Sam Fallen Asleep? |
| Israel, Iran talking war to ward off war? |
| Turkey: Searching for a Role |
| Hussein Shobokshi: Poison Live on the Air |
| Changing the Paradigm of U.S. Assistance to Egypt:
Alternatives to the 'Endowment' Idea |
| Why They Hate an Arab Miss USA |
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| May 18 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Nuclear Fuel Swap or Flop? |
| Iraq: Alleged World Cup Plotters Arrested |
| Iran Nuclear Swap Deal Signed - Original Document |
| Feature: Fayyad’s rising stock has Fatah worried
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| Chronology: The long battle over Iran's nuclear programme |
| Shielded by U.S. Umbrella, Israel Joins Rich Man's Club |
| Iraqi Christians Cling to Their Faith in Jordanian Exile
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| May 17 |
| David Patrikarakos: Iran’s Nuclear Gamble |
| Matthew Levitt: Preparing for the Next Terrorist |
| Saad Eddine Ibrahim: Islam, Obama and the Empty Quarter |
| Tom Engelhardt: Obama’s Flailing Wars |
| Mustafa Fetouri:The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality in
Libya’s Reforms |
| Saudi Arabia: Land of Conditional Opportunity |
| AKP, Alcohol, and Government-Engineered Social Change in
Turkey |
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| May 16 |
| The Neo-Terrorists |
| Bin Laden Might Be in Iran! |
| Russia, Turkey: A Grand Energy Bargain? |
| Analysis: Amid sanctions drive, US lobbies foreign firms |
| Uri Bar-Yosef : Worse than Golda and Dayan |
| Tony Badran: The shape of things to come with Iran |
| Sons of Iraq turned the tide for the US. Now they pay
the price |
| Iraq, Iran: Report From the Border |
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| May 15 |
| Robert Fox: Swift Afghanistan exit not on the cards |
| Ayman El-Amir: The non-proliferation equation |
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| May 14 |
| U.S. space planes 'worry Iran' |
| Scott Stewart: Setting the Record Straight on Grassroots
Jihadism |
| Olivier Zajec: The Slow Process of Banning the Bomb |
| James Zogby: The Use and Abuse of Religion |
| Ivan Eland: Iraq's Divided Future |
| Emile Hokayem: The Sum of All Arab Fears is a Regional
Nuclear Arms Race |
| Israel Harel: A fast track to Arab disengagement |
| Ari Shavit: The right to Dimona |
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| May 13 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Turkey's Struggle to Become a Major Player |
| Michael Young: The end for America in the Middle East? |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Iraq Question |
| Are Sadr militias rearming in Iraq's south? |
| Iraq: Springtime for Iran |
| Why Syria will keep saying ‘no’ to Washington |
| US in Iraq: How to get the endgame right |
| Analysis: U.S. lobbies firms amid Iran sanctions |
| Obama should tell Karzai it's time to resign |
| Yitzhak Laor: Israelis' state of denial over treatment of
Palestinians |
| Is Israel Sliding Towards a Police State? |
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| May 12 |
| George Friedman: Europe, Nationalism and Shared Fate |
| Yoel Marcus: Peace with Syria should come first |
| Mohammed Barakeh: Is Israel really a fascist regime? |
| Geopolitical Diary: Conflicting Objectives in
Afghanistan and Pakistan |
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| May 11 |
| The quest to sort out competing and comparable religions |
| Fouad Ajami: Islam's Nowhere Men |
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| May 10 |
| Fareed Zakaria: Why Pakistan keeps exporting jihad |
| David Ignatius: Reasons to be anxious about Afghanistan |
| Where Iraq meets Iran, guards see shifting lines |
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| May 9 |
| Proximity Talks: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back |
| Amos Harel: Has the IDF become an army of settlers? |
| Swift and bloody: the Taliban’s revenge |
| Bill Roggio: The Taliban in My Inbox |
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| May 8 |
| J. Scott Carpenter:
Challenging Tehran on Human Rights |
| Rima Merhi: Is the Arab world a graveyard for love? |
| Generals and Judges Above Law? Let Turks Decide |
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| May 7 |
| Uncomfortable Truths and the Times Square Attack - Ben West and Scott Stewart |
| Iraq…It's an Iranian Alliance |
| Ivan Petrella: Clash of Theologies |
| Diana Mukkaled: An Over-the-Top Reaction |
| Daoud Kuttab: Middle East Peace by Any Means Available |
| Shlomo Ben-Ami: The Abuse of History and the Iranian Bomb |
| Claude Salhani: Turning point in war? |
| Garrison Keillor: Terror in Times Square |
| Megacities of the world: a glimpse of how we'll live
tomorrow |
| Analysis: West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own
Country |
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| May 6 |
| Kuwait: Allegations of Iranian Espionage |
| Iran's Spies in the Gulf |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: I Wish My People Would Learn |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Iraq…It's an Iranian Alliance |
| Feature: From meat to wages, economic woes fuel Egypt
anger |
| Is the U.S. Trying to Expose Israel Nukes? |
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| May 5 |
| UK 'blocking' Mossad return to London |
| Is Kurdistan the next Dubai? |
| Osama bin Laden 'living in luxury in Iran' |
| George Friedman: The Global Crisis of Legitimacy |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran and the United States, Grasping
for Diplomacy |
| 'Deep state' fights government in Turkey's bloodless
civil war |
| David Ignatius: The real danger in makeshift bombs |
| Ali Ibrahim: Why the Middle East? |
| President’s quiet birthday leaves Egyptians anxious |
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| May 4 |
| John Bolton: Get Ready For a Nuclear Iran |
| Iran: The Blackwater-MeK Scare |
| Zvi Bar'el: Let them declare a state |
| Akiva Eldar: Discrimination is flourishing in East
Jerusalem |
| Shaul Arieli: A struggle to change public opinion |
| Walker's World: Great Depression 2? |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: Pakistani homegrown extremists |
| Israel, Iran Targeted at Nuke Non-Proliferation Meet |
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| May 3 |
| Mecca Becomes a Mecca for Drugs |
| David Ignatius: Is austerity a Greek myth? |
| Portugal the new Greece? |
| Shaul Arieli: Peace deal means getting Jewish state back
from the Arab world |
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| May 2 |
| Israel: We need more Iron Dome systems |
| Iran's nuclear gains spark new concerns |
| Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found |
| David Ignatius: Greece's debt crisis strains European
unity |
| Amos Harel: IDF Chief Gabi Ashkenazi's final battle |
| Yossi Sarid : Even Israel's biggest lovers are growing
impatient |
| Caroline Glick: Republicans, Democrats & Israel |
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| May 1 |
| Turkey: Clashes With PKK Expected In Cities |
| Ribal al-Assad: Syria is today a vassal state of Tehran |
| Geopolitical Diary: India and the U.S.-Pakistani
Alignment on Afghanistan |
