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December 2005 |
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| December
30 |
| Iraq war, Indian Ocean tsunami seen as biggest events of
2005: survey |
| Aaron Miller: The Sharon effect |
| Howard LaFranchi: Image problems hamper US on goals abroad |
| Hostage to fortune: Palestinian Authority is in danger of
losing control of Gaza |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Escalation is inevitable |
| Gary Leupp: Iran and Syria Still in the Crosshairs |
| Let's Stop a US / Israeli War on Iran - Bill and Katheleen Christinson |
| Feature: Iraqi police commandos say they use tea not
torture |
| Feature: Pilgrim caravans approach sacred realm in Saudi
Arabia |
| Jill Carroll: Shiites, Kurds forge ahead |
| Analysis: Europe's Slow Response to the Militant Islamist
Threat |
| EU: Austria Takes the Helm in Rough Waters |
| Julian Borger: She
has revived the art of talking - can Rice make a change? |
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| December
29 |
| 'Good year' for terrorists as Britain, Egypt, Jordan suffer
worst attacks |
| Year: Sharon steals spotlight as Palestinian state shelved |
| Year: UN atomic agency marks 2005 with Nobel award and tussles with Iran |
| Aluf Benn: Votes for Fatah, targets for Qassams |
| Rebecca Stoil: Return to the bad old days? |
| Hubertus Hoffmann: Christian peace politics |
| Dale Andrade: Three Lessons From Vietnam |
| Jim Hoagland: Foreign Affairs to Remember |
| Iran’s Air Forces: Struggling to Maintain Readiness |
| Netanyahu’s Victory: Major Challenges for the Likud
Party |
| Brian McCartan: War and disasters aside, 2005 brought world
progress |
| Juliet Macur: In
Training for Iraq, Learning to Work as a Team |
| Aleks Krotoski: How
the web will link us all |
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| December
28 |
| Yossi Sarid : At least the U.S. admits its mistakes |
| Year: Iraq enters 2006 teetering between hope, chaos |
| Feature: Next year could see Iraq economic revival |
| Andrew Mack: Peace on Earth? Increasingly, Yes. |
| Feature: Sell-by date looms for shaky Palestinian truce |
| Claude Salhani: Mideast past, future |
| Michel Chossudovsky: The Anglo-American War of Terror: An
Overview |
| Samuel G. Freedman: What's really behind the 'anti-Exodus' |
| Joshua Brilliant: Fatah grasping for deal on unified list |
| M.
d'Ancona: No one seems to have noticed this is our fifth Christmas at war |
| Richard Drayton:
Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on America's neocons |
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| December 27 |
| Richard Haass: Iraq and the fortunes of war |
| Robert Fisk: Telling it like it isn't |
| Andrew Erdmann: After Withdrawal, Engagement |
| Gary Anderson: Know your enemy |
| Peter Ford: Why European women are turning to Islam |
| H.D.S. Greenway: How will the Iraq war end? |
| Amnon Rubinstein: Mandate for Palestine |
| Mark Sappenfield: US sees Iraqi progress, but key tests
ahead |
| George Monbiot: Turks
haven't learned British way of denying past atrocities |
| Terry Jones: Comedy
of terror |
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| December
26 |
| Champion Of Freedom?: Bush and the Year In Democracy |
| Bill Frist : Reining in Iran |
| Jonathan Tepperman: The unknown enemy |
| Amir Tahiri: Fanatsies of the 'Realists' |
| Peter Brookes: Hearts and Minds |
| Mark Katz: Iran and Central Asia |
| Anthony Cordesman: Iraqis split on ethnic lines |
| Hassan Wirajuda: Islam and democratization |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht: Devout Democracies |
| Paul Staniland: For a more secure Iraq, wall off Syria |
| Akiva Eldar: Until the next missile |
| Danny Rubinstein: The national list versus the district
lists |
| Amir Oren: In Sharon's inner chambers |
| Nazir Majali: Inappropriate behavior for Jews |
| Jpost: Mubarak's ultimatum |
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| December
25 |
| Michael Scharf: Order in the court, Iraqi style |
| Rami Khouri: Facts and fantasies about Arab satellite TV |
| Judea Pearl: Missing from the script |
| Abraham Foxman: Stand up to Iran |
| Gideon Levy: Feiglin is preferable |
| Thomas Carothers: Three Tyrants, One Test |
| Jim Hoagland: An Aviator's Hope For Iraq |
| Anthony Cordesman: Reading Iraq's tea leaves |
| Profile: The political death of Egypt's opposition leader |
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| December
24 |
| Daniel Gordis: The first word: Christmas is good for the
Jews |
| J. Grant Swank, Jr: Syria's Hideway = Iraq's WMD |
| Hala Mustafa: Ending the Silent War in Egypt |
| Zaid Salah: Downward spiral |
| Editorial: The Iranian threat |
| Diana West: Freedom and jihad |
| Tulin Dalogl: Bahrain and the Iranian challenge |
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| December
23 |
| Ilene Prusher: Hussein disrupts, but doesn't impress Iraqis |
| Feature: Most Christian expats in Gulf can celebrate
Christmas |
| Analysis: The Evolution of Hamas |
| Romania: Washington's New Best Friend in Europe |
| Behind Iran's hard-line on Israel - Karim Sadjadpour and Ray Takeyh |
| William Lind: Bush's false Iraq options |
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| December
22 |
| Gary Leupp: A Syrian Chalabi? |
| Iraq: The Sectarian Split and Al Qaeda |
| Analysis: Another Angle on al-Zawahiri's Call to Action |
| Jim Hoagland: Boosting Democracy, On Purpose or Not |
| Analysis: Annan enters last year at U.N. |
| Joanathan Tobin: Spielberg's immoral equivalence |
| The Elephant in the Gulf: Arab States and Iran’s
Nuclear Program |
| Daniel Pipes: My gloom |
| Iraq: Washington Limits Iran by Backing the Sunnis |
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| December
21 |
| George Freidman: The Iraqi election's effects, from
Washington to Tehran |
| Ilene Prusher: Iraqi vote points to Islamist path |
| Amira Hass: On the three lies of Hamas |
| Moshe Arens: Politics in turmoil |
| Zeev Maoz: Toward a different nuclear policy |
| John Hughes: The West's patience wears thin with Iran's
hard line |
| Uzi Benziman: Things you can see from a hospital bed |
| Feature: US inducts 66 soldier citizens in Saddam palace |
| Scott Peterson: Waiting for the rapture in Iran |
| Simon
Heffer: Stop apologising for being Christian |
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| December
20 |
| Analysis: Israel surveys political landscape after big bang |
| Israel: Independent as an Indian reservation |
| Iran: Assassination, Confusion or Disinformation? |
| Bradley Burston: Jews who smile when Arabs gloat |
| Yoel Marcus: 100 days too many |
| Gershon Baskin: What to do about the rise of Hamas |
| Oraib Al Rantawi: Post-Saddam Iraq and the threats facing
Jordan |
| Ahmadinejad on Israel: global danger or political
infighting? |
| Meet the New Boss: President Abbas's PA looks distressingly
familiar |
| A Sultan with Swat: Remembering Abdul Hamid II, a
pro-American caliph |
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| December
19 |
| Shalom: Israel's FM who was sidelined by Sharon |
| Netanyahu: Israel's arch-hawk |
| Akiva Eldar: Kadima to a new Middle East |
| Danny Rubinstein: The will of the Palestinian voter |
| Moshe Amira: Jerusalem is in danger |
| Coming months critical for Bush Iraq policy: analysts |
| Jackson Diehl: In the Mideast, Democratic Momentum |
| Salim Lone: The nadir of occupation |
| Analysis: An 'old' question arises |
| Editorial: Australia's 'riots' |
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| December
18 |
| Henry Kissinger: How to exit Iraq |
| Al-Qaeda Infiltration of Gaza: A Post-Disengagement
Assessment |
| William Lind: The art of leaving Iraq |
| Iraq: Will It Be Different Now? |
| Profile Ahmadinejad : If only Iran's nuclear nutter had
stuck to traffic planning |
| Feature: Fallujah turns into unlikely model for US-Iraqi
ties |
| Feature: Young Emiratis grab cameras to show their real
image |
| Year: Iraq enters 2006 teetering between hope, chaos |
| Year: UN atomic agency marks 2005 with Nobel award and
tussles with Iran |
| Zvi Bar'el: Just one last withdrawal |
| Shmuel Rosner: Two wrongs don't make a right |
| Shlomo Avineri: An open letter to Javier Solana |
| Iraq:
Facing the possibility of a democratic war |
| Turkey: Why a
great writer's trial affects us all |
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| December
17 |
| Derrick Jackson: Iraqi civilian deaths mount -- and count |
| Ian Douglas: Why Saddam is important |
| Egypt: One God, one nation |
| Israel: State of decay |
| Diana West: Muslims and media |
| Linda Colley: US is now rediscovering the pitfalls of
aspirational imperialism |
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| December
16 |
| Analysis: Poll gives battered Iraq glimmer of hope |
| Israel: Scenarios of a Strike Against Iran |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Is there a military option? |
| Charles Krauthamme: In Iran, Arming for Armageddon |
| Fatah: A House Divided |
| Pankaj Mishra: Secular democracy goes on trial |
| Analysis: Is there method behind Iran's anti - Israel
remarks? |
| Iraq: Beyond 'Democratic Peace' |
| Jpost: Arabs want democracy, too |
| Jonathan Steele: Only
negotiation with Iraq's resistance can bring peace |
| Ian Traynor: 'I am
Saddam's tailor' |
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| December
15 |
| Iraq: Will Democracy Become a Habit? |
| Iraq: Election Day |
| Factfile on Iraq |
| Iraq election factfile |
| Feature: Iraqi electoral commission comes of age |
| Peter Baker: In Four Speeches, Two Answers on War's End |
| Fawaz Gerges: Let Iraq's Sunnis chase Al Qaeda out |
| Feature: Movie star hasn't lost hope in Iranian cinema |
| Harith al-Dari: No
elections will be credible while occupation continues |
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| December 14 |
| Alan Philps: Iraqis have a stark choice: civil war or
democracy |
| What Sunni voters want |
| Uzi Benziman: What to do with Ahmadinejad |
| Profile: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi |
| Profile: Moqtada Sadr: a firebrand playing politics |
| Profile: Sistani, shepherd of Iraq's Shiite dreams |
| Feature: Saddam torture victim given new life through
reconstructive surgery |
| Analysis: The Ongoing Threat to Cruise Ships |
| Jonathan Freedland:
The sickness bequeathed by the west to the Muslim world |
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| December
13 |
| Zvi Bar'el: Ahmadinejad can continue to smile while the
world argues |
| Anniversary:Two years after capture, Saddam wants new shoes |
| H.D.S. Greenway: A hungry eye for Damascus? |
| David Aaronovitch: Here's my apology on the 'disaster' of
the Iraq war... |
| Chalabi: One-time US favorite seeking top Iraq job |
| Barzani: champion of Iraqi Kurdish rights |
| Key dates in Iraq's political transition |
| Fact File: Iraq's ethnic mosaic on the eve of elections |
| Feature: Restored mosque brings hope for Cyprus ethnic
divide |
| Ilene Prusher: Palestinian 'third way' rises |
| Ilene Prusher: Iraq's perilous, pricey campaign |
| Egyptian Legislative Elections: A Reading of the Results
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| M. Woollacott: Region
will wrest back control when US stumbles out of Iraq |
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| December
12 |
| The Caliphate: 21st-Century Warnings of a Threat Rooted in
the 7th |
| Charles Krauthhammer: Saddam's bungled trial |
| Danny Rubinstein: In Fatah's service |
| Scott Peterson: Iran's leader drawing fire |
| Analysis: Mofaz's exit from the Likud turns into march of
folly |
| Profile: Hakim: Iraq's shadowy kingmaker |
| Profile: Secular strongman Allawi on the comeback trail |
| Profile: Abdel Mahdi, free marketeer for Iraq's future |
| Iraq election factfile |
| Fact File: The main parties running in Iraq's election |
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| December 11 |
| Ze'ev Schiff: The disengagement, with a look to the future |
| Gideon Levy: The safe passage: The history of a farce |
| Yosef Goell: Mother of all one-man parties |
| Feature: Likud in free-fall after Sharon jumps ship |
| Factfile on Iraq |
| Profile: Talabani, from Kurdish outlaw to Iraqi head of
state |
| Profile: Jaafari, the Shiite PM who brought in Iraq's
Sunnis |
| Fact File: What is the WTO? |
| Jeff Gerth: Military's Information War Is Vast and Often
Secretive |
| Kanan Makiya: Present at the Disintegration |
| Iraq: More Than Just Political Theater |
| Iraq's election: Who will run the show next? |
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| December
10 |
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim: Saving Egypt from Mubarak |
| Gihan Shahine: What Copts fear |
| Feature: Gamal Mubarak's ambitions suffer setback after
Egypt vote |
| Mohamed Sid-Ahmed: The elections crises |
| Sameh Fawzi: Brothers and others |
| Iraq: The only way is out |
| Washington: Rice pudding |
| Frank Gaffney: Nuke over U.S. could unleash electromagnetic
tsunami |
| Feature: War on terror gives US a foothold in strategic
Caucasus |
| Egypt: Washington Engages the Brotherhood |
| PNA, Israel: Hamas Stirs the Pot |
| Analysis: Hamas Ends Truce With Israel |
| Naomi Klein: US has
used torture for decades. Now it's out in the open |
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| December
9 |
| Jonathan S. Tobin: Oh holiday tree! Oh holiday tree! |
| Burt Prelutsky: The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas |
| Ze'ev Schiff: The hope that turned false |
| Moshe Elad: The key is in the hands of the West |
| Al Qaeda: Targeting Guidance and Timing |
| Abbas William Samii: Despite domestic waves, Iran will keep
its president |
| Simon Tisdall: Band of Brothers |
| Jonathan Steele: This faltering trial has put Saddam back
in charge |
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| December
8 |
| Analysis: Shock election results leaves Egypt at crossroads |
| Bush Remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations on the
War on Terrorism |
| George Friedman: Military Lessons Learned in Iraq and
Strategic Implications |
| Jim Hoagland: Wolves in the Gulf |
| Daniel Philpott: Along with trials, Iraq needs truth |
| Mark Sappenfield: How common is US abuse of detainees? |
| Helena Cobban: A shift toward diplomacy in Iraq |
| Feature: Israel's dogs of war |
| Feature: Iraqi women rotting away in former royal palace |
| Analysis: Al Qaeda Threat and the Risks to the Oil Industry |
| Al Qaeda: Threatening Attacks Against the Oil Sector |
| Burt Prelutsky: The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas |
| Ali Jarbawi: Setting the stage for a springtime intifada |
| Ghassan Khatib: Election fever |
| Yisrael Harel: Elections in the shadow of terror |
| Yossi Alpher: A speculative but productive exercise |
| Richard
Norton-Taylor: Complicity with torture |
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| December
7 |
| Shmuley Boteach: Discovering the Jewish Jesus |
| Daniel Pipes: Converts with a mission |
| Feature: Palestinians cheer on Saddam in the dock |
| Feature: Saddam's bunker, a draw for tourists in Green Zone |
| Feature: Egypt's liberal women see veiled threat in
Islamist rise |
| Feature: Bird flu prevention in UAE begins at falcon
hospital |
| Iran: U.S., Israel Rethink Their Strategies |
| Arnaud de Borchgrave: Pakistan's two faces |
| U.K.: Thwarting a Possible Amateur Attack |
| Japan, China, South Korea: A Shrine to Three-Way Politics |
| John Hughes: Don't jump to conclusions about the Iraqi
'good news' reports |
| David Ignatius: Courage in their coverage |
| Anne Applebaum: It's not whether you 'win' or 'lose' . . . |
| Richard Cohen: Let Rumsfeld Go |
| Olga Salanueva:
Jailed for fighting terror |
| Gerald Kaufman: No
peace with Sharon |
| Sami Rosen: Balkan Islamists
Sponsored the Act of Terrorism in Israel |
| Aaron Klein: Israel suicide attack directed by Iran, Syria?
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| December
6 |
| Wesley Clark: The Next Iraq Offensive |
| Feature: Iraq gripped by advertising boom in election
run-up |
| Feature: Record number of women to contest Palestinian
elections |
| Avigdor Haselkorn: Iran's dangerous game |
| Reuven Pedatzur: The Iranian nukes rise again |
| U.S. Army report: Israel can't stop Iran nukes |
| Isi Leibler: Banana republic |
| Uri Avnery: The giant’s daughter and the ME |
| China: The nanotech superpower of the 21st Century |
| Analysis: The first terrorist attack of Elections 2006 |
| Israel: Blast shakes political landscape |
| Israel: The Suicide Attack and its Consequences |
| James Brandon: Sweden's rising Muslim tide |
| Analysis: The Attack against Al Qaeda's 'No. 3' |
| Jackson Diehl: Mubarak Outdoes Himself, Election Fraud
Backfires |
| William Hamilton: Confronting the haters |
| Jo-Ann Mort: Israel's best hope for peace |
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| December
5 |
| New signs of hope in Middle East - Chicago Tribune |
| Iran, Israel and nukes - Washington Times |
| Feature: Palestinian farmers mourn loss of land to barrier |
| Daoud Khattab: Birth of the Fatah party |
| Danny Rubinstein: Shaky preview to the PA elections |
| Elia Leibowitz: Big bang, big shrink |
| Islamic radicalism and communism: Do these two have anything
in common? |
| Christopher Dickey: Women of Al Qaeda |
| Lorraine Ali: Reform: Not Ignorant, Not Helpless |
| Akiva Eldar: Why does Sharon need Peres? |
| Gerald Steinberg: Can Europe provide security? |
| Michael Ware: The New Rules of Engagement |
| Peter Preston:
Propaganda and bribery |
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| December
4 |
| Four Months? Grace before Iran Takes up Its Nuclear
Military Option |
| Feature: Iraqis turn to pills to escape their hard reality |
| Ephraim Inbar: Deterring the Iranian nuclear threat |
| Yosef Goell: Will Bush stand by Sharon? |
| Zvi Bar'el: Who wants to play with Abbas? |
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| December
3 |
| Interview: Egypt's jaded opposition hero carries prison
bundle to court |
| Iraq: The Insurgency Reconfigures Itself |
| Analysis: The EU's Sudden Power Shift |
| Mohamed Sid-Ahmed: Israel and Egypt's elections |
| Essam El-Erian: Egypt, towards the renaissance |
| Hassan Nafaa: Egypt, In search of a new legitimacy |
| Samir Morcos: Battling with illusions |
| Ted Belman: Israel, from the Mediterranean to Jordan? |
| Vicki
Woods: David Frost is missing out on Qatar |
| Comment: The
inequalities that blazed in France will soon scorch the world |
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| December
2 |
| Sharon: Military option against Iran |
| Iraqi insurgency strong and could get stronger: study |
| Iraq: The Insurgency Strikes Back |
| Ze'ev Schiff: The withdrawal from Iraq is coming |
| Martin Indyk: Go Your Own Way |
| Iraq: A New Wave of Abductions |
| Analysis: Jemaah Islamiyah and Southeast Asia's Internet
Warriors |
| Diana West: Defining terrorism |
| Fatah primary results: Lessons from the first round |
| Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal: For the EU, the ball is in Iran's court |
| Gideon Samet: Pardon my comparisons |
| Clive Lindley: Shafting Al Jazeera |
| Simon Tisdall: No
quick Afghan exit |
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| December
1 |
| Analysis: Bush's Strategy for Iraq Revealed |
| Israel: Peres Labors for Sharon |
| Analysis: Now Shimon Peres is Ariel Sharon's problem |
| Uri Dan: Reading Sharon's mind |
| Feature: Oil boost for Iraq Kurds |
| Iraq: A New Tactic in the Jihadist War? |
| Analysis: The World Wide Web of Jihadists |
| Dan Rabinowitz: The Peretz challenge to Arab politics |
| David Ignatius: Rice's Rising Star |
| Meron Benvenisti: In the hope that Jerusalem will wait |
| Sarah Nasser: A pro-Israel Muslim speaks out |
| Yair Sheleg: Defining the centrist |
| Danny
Kruger: Reflections of a 'cheap warmaker' |
| George Bush and Iraq:
The word is out |
| Wadah Khanfar: Why
did you want to bomb me, Mr Bush and Mr Blair? |
| Profile: Eternal peacemaker Peres turns back on political
home |
