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Mother knew best for daughter, and now they'll graduate together at HCC
As a mother, Howard Community College student Sonia Halboni believes she always has her children's best interests at heart, yet she can remember once when her peers didn't concur. When her daughter, Daliah, graduated from Marriotts Ridge High School two...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Kuwait, Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Students
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America's challenge in the Arab world
When the "Arab Spring" erupted, the cry of demonstrators to their rulers was Irhal ("get out"). And now, in Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere, we again hear cry of Irhal, directed at the new leaders of what increasingly seem like the old systems,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Values, Ethics, Customs and Tradition, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Israeli zealotry is not true obstacle to peace
KAL's cartoon of March 24 depicting President Barack Obama disinterring a dove representing the two-state solution, only to see the dove shot at by "Israeli extremists" and "Palestinian extremists" is witty, clever, and inaccurate. The cartoon lazily...
Tags: Barack Obama, Ehud Olmert, Judaism, West Bank, Israel
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Will the Arabs ever accept Israel's right to exist?
It is troubling that neither The Sun's news coverage nor its editorial regarding the United Nations' recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state bothered to mention what Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas actually said in his speech to the...Tags: Palestinian National Authority, Hamas, Judaism, Israel, United Nations
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Don't punish Palestinians for seeking justice
Very few things unite Democratic and Republican senators in Washington. But unfortunately, one thing that does is attacking the human rights of Palestinians. And now they're are at it again. This time in the form of an anti-Palestinian amendment sponsored...Tags: Human Rights, Chuck Schumer, International Criminal Court, Bob Menendez, International Court or Tribunal
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For Israel, it's different this time
Until this year, the world would have been looking at the intensifying armed confrontation between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with a sense of deja vu all over again. But this is 2012, and the political map of the Middle East has changed...
Tags: Egypt, Armed Conflicts, Saudi Arabia, Assassinations, Mahmoud Abbas
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Egypt's Morsi is Hamas' new best friend
The chameleon is finally showing his true colors. Since taking office in June, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's not-so-new president, has been equivocating, trying to balance Egypt's longstanding diplomatic and financial relationship with the West with his true...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Tel Aviv (Israel), Egypt, Israel, The New York Times
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U.N. recognition of Palestinian state ups pressure on Israel to negotiate
Over the strenuous objections of the U.S. and Israel, the United Nations General Assembly voted today to grant nonmember observer status to a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.N. action, which was widely anticipated, was largely a...
Tags: Palestinian National Authority, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, UNESCO, Jerusalem (Israel)
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'Terrorist' is in the eyes of the beholder
Rafael Medhoff's commentary notes that when the British held the Palestinian Mandate there was much Arab unrest in the face of increased Jewish immigration, and mandate authorities resorted to punitive measures to suppress it and to deport its leaders ("...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Judaism, United Kingdom, World War II (1939-1945)
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Gaza conflict different from the days of British rule
In his commentary, Rafael Medoff compares the British occupation of Palestine in the 1930s with today's events, but the circumstances of today vary from then ("Bombs in Palestine, then and now," Nov. 26). This would include mentioning the Israelis dying... -
Bombs in Palestine, then and now
Bombs falling on Arab neighborhoods ... Homes demolished ... Civilians killed or wounded ... Soldiers shooting at anything that moves. That may sound like a description of the past week's violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. But in fact, it...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Judaism, Armed Conflicts, Explosions, Israel
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The onus is on the Palestinians to talk peace
Your editorial suggesting that United Nations recognition of Palestine will put pressure on Israel to resume peace talks is a naive repetition of the myth that Palestinians actually want peace with Israel ("Pressure on Israel to negotiate," Nov. 30)....Tags: Palestinian National Authority, Hamas, Israel, United Nations
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