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| June 30 |
| Bush
remains steadfast under Iraqi fire -
Leader, Telegraph |
| Walid Phares: Most Iraqis want U.S. to stay
- Msnbc |
| No solution and no
apology as president runs out of ideas - Guardian |
| The sobering of America - Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian |
| A dangerous change in peace with
Egypt - Shlomo Ben-Ami, Haaretz |
| Declaring war on the settlers - Israel Harel, Haaretz |
| Ahmadinejad
may end up being the clerics' bane -
Mahan Abedin, Daily Star |
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| June 29 |
| Abdullah Iskandar:
Iran and Syria |
| Walid Phares:
Choices over Iraq and other choices: Questions in perspective |
| Iraq: The long and the
short - Leader, Guardian |
| Better than delusions - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian |
| Still
being fooled in the Middle East? -
Rami Khouri, Daily Star |
| How
will the politics of American energy change? - Joseph Nye, Daily Star |
| Red-Dead
project leaves Jordan vulnerable on water - Lamis Andoni, Dstar |
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| June 28 |
| Robert Scheer: Iranian
Revolution Is Thriving in Iraq |
| Gershon Baskin:
Engaging the US president |
| The rise of secular nationalism in Iran - Jpsot |
| Patrick Seale:
Washington now faces a no-win situation in Iraq |
| Snipers with children in their sights - Chris McGreal, Guardian |
| Better Muqata
than Masada - Danny Rubinstein,
Haaretz |
| China is not an
outpost - Aluf Benn, Haaretz |
| What if there is
no disengagement? - Amir Oren,
Haaretz |
| Iranians didn't `betray' the U.S. - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| Dialogue
will go further than brute strength in tackling Iraq's insurgency - Dstar |
| To consolidate truce, the U.S. must dialogue with
Hamas - S. Lasensky, Dstar |
| The
loser in Iran was the Western media - Gordon Robison, Dstar |
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| June 27 |
| Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Ali Shah's last stand - Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| Iran: Wing and a prayer - Leader, Guardian |
| Iran Elections:
'Resentment was on his side' -
Press Review, Guardian |
| Iraq: The tipping point - Gary Younge, Guardian |
| The China
syndrome - Editorial, Haaretz |
| Longings for
Arafat - Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| The outcome of
contempt - Yair Sheleg, Haaretz |
| The
coming four years will prove a test for the Iranian regime - Dstar |
| Bilin
tests non-violent resistance - Mohammad Daraghmeh, Dstar |
| Russia
and Poland seek restored relevance in the new Middle East - Dstar |
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| June 26 |
| Walid Phares:
Iran’s Khumanists seal off the fortress |
| Uri dan: Egypt is
playing with fire |
| 'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill Jews. Yes, even
babies' |
| This
is how America would tackle Africa -
Henry J Hyde, Telegraph |
| Interim report card for Condoleezza
- Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
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| June 25 |
| Reawakening the teachings of contempt - R. Everett and D. Van Zile, Jpost |
| America's
neo-conservative world supremacists will fail - Guardian |
| One miracle too
many -Mark Lawson, Guardian |
| Rejecting
Turkey's EU entry bid will send Muslims the wrong message - Dstar |
| Abbas'
castles in the air toppled in Jerusalem - Michael Glackin, Dstar |
| Bush won't lose any credibility if he sometimes
bends - David Ignatius, Dstar |
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| June 24 |
| Regimes use Arab-Israeli conflict as pretext to avoid reform - Miami Herald |
| Iran’s Presidential Election: The Candidates Speak - Washington Institute |
| Deadlines Loom For Bush, Jafari - Washpost |
| Evangelicals Building a Base in Iraq - Washpost |
| Remembering
Buber and silenced words of wisdom -
Peter Speetjens, Dstar |
| In
Egypt, some judges still consider independence an ideal - Dina Shehata, DS |
| Ducking
democracy, Arab regime style -
Wayne White, Dstar |
| Five evacuation
nightmares - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| Will the
bulldozer devour forever? -
Nehemia Strasler, Haaretz |
| After Gaza, more
Gaza - Daniel Levy, Haaretz |
| Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder - Guardian |
| Blair can get Europe behind him - Robin Cook, Guardian |
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| June 23 |
| Anglicans
target Israel - Telegraph |
| Murdered
in name of family honour -
Chris McGreal, Guardian |
| Blinded by the light at
the end of the tunnel - Sidney
Blumenthal, Guardian |
| A chill wind at
the summit - Editorial, Haaretz |
| Still a sliver
of hope - Israel Harel, Haaretz |
| Sharon is not doing enough to take the gun out of
Palestinian politics - Dstar |
| Rice's
speech set up the proper democratic guideposts - David Ignatius, Dstar |
| Asaf Romirowsky: A
Democratic Hamas? |
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| June 22 |
| Abbas's
weakness rocks the road to peace -
Telegraph |
| Democracy yet to dawn - Guardian |
| Withdrawal
is a prelude to annexation -
Avi Shlaim, Guardian |
| Analysis: No surprises at
Sharon, Abbas summit meeting in J'lem - Haaretz |
| What's good for
the rabbi - Yossi Sarid, Haaretz |
| A barrier to
Islamic evil - Reuven Daniel,
Haaretz |
| For
Syrian optimists, now is the time to reconsider - A. Abdulhamid, Dstar |
| Mother
Russia, a father no more in the new Middle East -Vitaly Naumkin, Dstar |
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| June 21 |
| Democracy's advance in
Egypt brings dilemma for US -
Simon Tisdall, Guardian |
| Razing homes, building ties - Editorial, Haaretz |
| The enemy of our friend - Moshe Arens, Haaretz |
| Why Peres gets my vote - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| Can
Rice sweep away the cobwebs that have distracted us from reform? -Dstar |
| Israel's
plan for Jerusalem is liable to lead to tragedy - Shaul Arieli, Dstar |
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| June 20 |
| Daoud Kuttab: Rice and the Palestinians |
| M. Steinberg: The 'pragmatic' Hamas myth |
| Revolution
fails Iranians - Leader, Telegraph |
| The third
intifada - Danny Rubinstein,
Haaretz |
| A
Sunni militia in Iraq is inevitable and appropriate - David Ignatius, Dstar |
| Is
Hamas planning the inconceivable? - khalid Hroub, Dstar |
| By the ballot of
the bomb - Akiva Eldar, Haaretz |
| King Solomon gave land away
- Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| Vain threats
from the right - Alexander
Jacobson, Haaretz |
| In
the Gulf, women are not women's best friends - N. Janardhan, Dstar |
| Chirac savaged over failed summit - Nicholas Watt, Guardian |
| More than a squabble: this goes to the heart of Europe - Guardian |
| Wanted: A humane
immigration policy - Editorial,
Haaretz |
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| June 19 |
| Georgie Anne Geyer: Suicide bombers as political weapons |
| Why
do Russians still hunger for the USSR? - Niall Ferguson, Telegrpah |
| How high-pressure politics threatens action on
climate - Robin McKie, Observer |
| Fiddling as the planet burns - Henry Porter, Observer |
| When to talk to
Hamas - Editorial, Haaretz |
| Sharon's version
of corruption - Uzi Benziman,
Haaretz |
| The truth the settlers deserve - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| Arabs for hire
- Gideon Levy, Haaretz |
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| June 18 |
 Matthew Levitt:
Countering the theological case for 'economic Jihad' is vital |
| Mohamed Sid-Ahmed: Change in Syria? |
| Judea Pearl: Dialogue of the deaf |
| Cold war, take two
- Martin Jacques, Guardian |
| New
leaders will shape Europe's future -
Leader, Telegraph |
| Egyptian
politics awaken from their half-century slumber - Rami Khouri, Dstar |
| Reza Aslan Reza:
Syria's Baathists Fear Evolution and Extinction |
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| June 17 |
| Shlomo Avineri: More
pro-Arab than the Kremlin |
| Why Iran's clerics fear this election - Jonathan Steele, Guardian |
| Iran: New ball
game as candidates compete for the youth vote - Guardian |
| The seeds of disaster - David Assaf, Haaretz |
| Before this Mideast moment slips
away - Haaretz |
| Corruption can wait - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| The dark undemocratic cloud hanging over Iran has a
silver lining - Daily Star |
| Rap
or not, Iran may turn more hard-line - Iason Athanasiadis, Daily Star |
| The
reverberating impact of the Revolutionary Guards - Abbas Samii, Daily Star |
| In Europe, not America - Polly Toynbee, Guardian |
| Jackson's soul
search - Nelson George, Guardian |
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| June 16 |
| Iran's Election - Washington Post |
| Clinton Baily: Israel Opposition gone mad |
| Geshon Baskin: Palestinian opportunity |
| Manuela Paraipan: Looking for a Moderate Islam |
| Showing a sour
face to the Arabs - Haaretz
Editorial |
| Who's afraid of
a tie? - Meron Benvenisti, Haaretz |
| At the mercy of
the checkpoint - Zvi Bentwich,
Haaretz |
| In Iraq, victory is really a question of numbers,
and of time - Daily Star, Niall
Ferguson |
|
| June 15 |
| In God we trust ? - Newnations |
| Daniel Pipes: It's hard to let good help go |
| David Kimche: When Left and Right Are Right |
| Yossi Alpher: On Israeli-Palestinian borders, June 1967 is
the reference point |
| Ghassan Khatib: Behind the smokescreen |
| A new kind of
Europe - Jonathan Steele, Guardian |
| Vindication
for De Gaulle - John
Biffen, Guardian |
| Time to make
peace with the U.S. - Haaretz |
| Between the ox
and the frog - Adar Primor,
Haaretz |
| It's
high time the United States and Israel came through on progress - Dstar |
| Analysing
mistakes in peace-making -
Rami Khouri, Dstar |
| For
democratic change, deal with moderate Islamists - Amr Hamzawy, Dstar |
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| June 14 |
| When lawlessness
gets the upper hand - Amira Hass,
Haaretz |
| Seperation
fence: Ecological corridors are disappearing - Amira Hass, Haaretz |
| Michael
Jacson:Testing times ahead -
Leader, Guardian |
| The
people's game shows the way forward - Michael Glackin, Daily Star |
| For
Saudi Arabia and Iran, searching for security is a priority - A. Sager, DStar |
| They
Won't Go - Bob Herbert,
Nytimes |
| Bouthaina
Shaaban: Time for East and West to put aside 'grand goals' - DStar |
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| June 12 |
| Michael Kinsley: America's class struggle
- Jpost |
| Who
can stop the rise and rise of China? - Mark Steyn, Telegraph |
| Nuovo
Mondo - Nahla Atiyah, Daily Star |
| The
Turkish model benefits the region -
Bulent Aras, DStar |
| Jackson's
trial, our error - Mary Riddell,
Observer |
| Landscapes of the
spirit -
Alex Wright, Observer |
| Religious values
are not superior - Uzi Benziman,
Haaretz |
| Let them
disengage already - Zvi Bar'el,
Haaretz |
| Up Front feature: Welcome to Jamahiriya, Libya - Jpost |
| Bush's
new salesman - Leader, Telegraph |
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| June 10 |
| In Support of Arab
Democracy: Why and How- Council on
Foreign Relations |
| U.S. Policy
towards a week Assad - Dennis
Ross, WashQuarterly |
| Bashar
Al-Assad: in or out of the world order - Eyal Zisser, WashQuarterly |
| David Ignatius: New Syria? |
| Simon Tisdall: Assad finds new strength in adversity |
| Egypt: Creating a New Political Reality
- Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie |
| Palestine: A New Hamas? - Khaled Hroub, Carnegie |
| No repeat of the Algerian solution - Yezid Sayigh, Guardian |
| Hamas:
'It is important to know how it thinks' - Press Review, Guardian |
| A
35-hour week is hard work in France - Alice Thomson, Telegraph |
| Liberty first,
democracy later - Peter Berkowitz,
Haaretz |
| Mahmoud Abbas' credibility is as vulnerable as the
cease-fire - Daily Star |
| Progressive
Islam - William Fisher,
Daily Star |
| Egypt
and the paradox of American democratization - Maha El-Dahan, DStar |
| It's
blood for oil in Southern Sudan -
Julie Flint, DStar |
|
| June 9 |
| Who's Really Abusing the Koran? - Max Boot, Latimes |
| Iraq:
Don't Rush The Constitution -
International Crisis Group |
| Daniel Pipes: Undoing Ataturk's revolution? |
| Decadent
Europe - Timothy Garton Ash,
Guardian |
| Nixon's empire
strikes back - Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian |
| Even in war
there are laws - Hussein Abu
Hussein, Haarerz |
| If
left unreformed, Syria's regime will cave in on itself - Editorial, Dstar |
| Talk
to Hamas, the group says it's dying for everyone to listen - Dstar |
| Better
a storm in Jordan than a hurricane -
David Ignatius, Dstar |
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| June 8 |
| Ghaith Abdul-Ahad:
Syria: Outside Iraq but Deep in the Fight - Washpost |
| George Friedman: The Motives of Deep Throat - Stratfor |
| Who
is now running France? A would-be Napoleon - Frank Johnson, Telegraph |
| Fighting
terror the Malaysian way, not the US way - Simon Tisdall, Guardian |
| European
defeatists would hand continent to US power - David Clark, Guardian |
| Hamas: Part of the
solution too? - Leader, Guardian |
| Analysis: Israel paying a
price for Hamas-Fatah strife within PA - Haarerz |
| No chance for peace without
concessions in Jerusalem - Tom
Segev, Haarerz |
| Israel tops list of most combative
countries - Zeev Maoz, Haarerz |
| Perception is reality - Moshe Arens, Haarerz |
| Dialogue
with Hamas is a better approach than alienation - Daily Star |
| Rami Khouri: Journey continues, from Bronze Age
urbanism to Arab modernity |
| Sharon
wants all the pieces, but that's not peace - Gershon Baskin, Dstar |
| Understanding
Iraq's armed theater - Steven
Metz, Dstar |
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| June 7 |
| Malaysia's prosperity keeps Islamic fundamentalists
at bay - Guardian |
| Syria's
leap - forward, or over the precipice? - David Hirst, Dstar |
| To
Islamists, one man, one vote, one time, means dictatorship - Dstar |
| The
culture excuse for Darfur atrocities no longer holds water - Dstar |
| Butterflies
on a Cactus Field - Nahla Atiyah,
Dstar |
|
| June 6 |
| Ailing
king spurs debate over Saudi future - Press review, Guardian |
| Whose right of
return is more sacred? - Akiva
Eldar, Haaretz |
| Another option
for Jerusalem - Nadav Shragai,
Haaretz |
| At
home with the Putins - Nick Paton
Walsh, Guardian |
| The only
Palestinian address - Danny
Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| EU: We are powerless
unless we stand shoulder to shoulder - Guardian |
| Can
Assad make the 'great leap' he has promised? - Michael Glackin, Dstar |
| Some
thoughts on a mundane Baath event - Ammar Abdulhamid, Dstar |
|
| June 5 |
| The fall of Europe - Douglas Davis, Jpost |
| The Temple Mount – still in our hands? - Gerald M. Steiberg, Jpsot |
| Whingeing, conceited, hypocritical: that's us - Kevin Myers, Telegraph |
| My problem with
Europe - Will Hutton,
Guardian |
| The best decade
of our lives - Yossi Beilin,
Haaretz |
| Leave the red
roofs - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
|
| June 4 |
| For
Turkey and the U.S. now is a time for reconciliation - Daivid Ignatius, Dtar |
| Expect
very leisurely change from the Baath congress - Ziad Haydar, Dtar |
| EU dreamers get a reality check - Charles Moore, Telegraph |
| EU: The constitution
is dead. Long live proper politics - Slavoj Zizek, Guardian |
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| June 3 |
| Farid Ghadry: Time for change in Syria |
| Farid Ghadry: Could Assad fall? |
| Baath Party Congress in Damascus: How Much Change in Syria? -WashInstitute |
| Small Reform Expected in Syrian Congress - AP |
| A new New Middle
East - Meron Benvenisti, Haaretz |
| Sharon's hot
summer - Aluf Benn, Haaretz |
| Darfur: Two
million tragedies we can't ignore - Jonathan Steele, Guardian |
| Iraq's other
resistance - Greg
Muttitt, Guardian |
| EU: Don't jump to
conclusions - Martin Kettle,
Guardian |
| Bush
must be kidding; he's got to commit to peace - Yossi Alpher, Daily Star |
| In
Egypt even the unborn endorse Mubarak - Maria Golia, Daily Star |
| Separate
the Shiite revival from Iran - Rodger Shanahan, Daily Star |
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| June 2 |
| EU: What is to be done?
- Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian |
| A lesson from the voters
that must be heeded - Simon Tisdall, Guardian |
| Watergate under the bridge - Albert Scardino, Guardian |
| Prophesying the
state's destruction - Editorial,
Haaretz |
| The weariness
from Jerusalem - Meron Benvenisti,
Haaretz |
| A
farce in Libya deserves the full glare of international scrutiny - Daily Star |
| How
to make violence inevitable in Saudi Arabia - Mai Yamani, Daily Star |
| The
good, the bad and the ugly in the Palestinian-Israeli truce - Daily Star |
|
| June 1 |
| Claude Salhani: Battle for Baghdad has just begun |
| Dennis Ross: Making Iran Play Ball |
| Daniel Pipes: Jihad through history |
| Between Moscow and Paris: Central Europe's Emerging Reality
- Stratfor |
| Deep
Throat - the plot thickens -
Jonathan Aitken, Telegraph |
| All
the President's G-men - Leader,
Telegraph |
| Chirac
turns to a crony - Leader,
Telegraph |
| Sisters
take on scholars in battle for Islam - Simon Tisdall, Guardian |
| Next stop, the Netherlands - Naima Bouteldja, Guardian |
| Attention: Dan
Halutz - Uzi Benziman,
Haaretz |
| A calamitous
mistake - Alexander Yakobson,
Haaretz |
| Three permanent
settlements - Aluf Benn, Haaretz |
| Deep
Throat - the plot thickens -
Jonathan Aitken, Telegraph |
| All
the President's G-men - Leader,
Telegraph |
| Chirac
turns to a crony - Leader,
Telegraph |
| Sisters
take on scholars in battle for Islam - Simon Tisdall, Guardian |
| Next stop, the Netherlands - Naima Bouteldja, Guardian |
| Attention: Dan
Halutz - Uzi Benziman,
Haaretz |
| A calamitous
mistake - Alexander Yakobson,
Haaretz |
| Three permanent
settlements - Aluf Benn, Haaretz |
| It's
Rafsanjani's moment, once again -
Rami Khouri, Dstar |
