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		<title>Qaeda demand for priest wives spotlights Egyptian fault line</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/qaeda-demand-for-priest-wives-spotlights-egyptian-fault-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terror network’s message threatens to target all region&#8217;s Christians if Camilia Shehata, Wafa Constantine are not released. By Samer al-Atrush &#8211; CAIRO Middle East Online      First Published: 2010-11-02 A chilling message from an Iraqi Al-Qaeda group warning Egypt&#8217;s Coptic Christians to free two priests&#8217; wives it says converted to Islam and are being held against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN rights chiefs lead new assault on US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington under fire over &#8216;war on terror&#8217;, Iraq-Afghan conflicts, Wikileaks revelations. Middle East Online   First Published: 2010-10-27 UNITED NATIONS &#8211; UN human rights chiefs and experts launched a new offensive on the US conduct of its &#8220;war on terror&#8221; and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The leaking of 400,000 documents on the Iraq war and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights organization: Israel is carrying out wide-scale prisoner transfers in its prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle East Monitor       MEMO, October 12, 2010 A Palestinian human rights organization has said that a few days ago, the managing authority of Israeli jails began a wide scale transfer campaign among prisoners, particularly in Megiddo, Gilboa, Be&#8217;er Sheva, and Shata prisons. In light of this campaign, dozens of prisoners have been moved to different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Silence nominated for EU peace prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking the Silence documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza; right-wing group calls on parliament members not to let it win award. By Nir Hasson Haaretz    Tue, October 12, 2010 Breaking the Silence, which documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza, has been nominated for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Soros digs deep for human rights with $100m gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guy Adams in Los Angeles Independent &#8211; 8 September 2010 Continuing a lifelong habit of putting money where his mouth is, George Soros has announced a gift of $100m (£65m) to Human Rights Watch, the organisation which seeks to monitor abuses of power and to lobby transgressing governments and companies. The billionaire financier – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian woman prevented from visiting imprisoned son for 14 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle East Monitor    MEMO, September 6, 2010 A Palestinian human rights worker has reported that Israeli forces continue to prevent, Umm Ibrahim, an elderly woman in her 70s, from visiting her son after 14 years on the pretext that she poses as security threat to Israel. Umm Ibrahim had no choice but to find a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Fisk : Egyptians prepare for life after Mubarak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their President of 29 years is very ill. But with no nominated successor, an uncertain future awaits, writes Robert Fisk in Cairo Independent  - Tuesday, 24 August 2010 So here comes the latest Egyptian joke about 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak. The president, a keen squash player – how else could he keep his jet-black hair? – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I would gladly kill Arabs &#8211; even slaughter them&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/i-would-gladly-kill-arabs-even-slaughter-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In new bid to defend publishing controversial images, former IDF soldier Eden Abergil writes on Facebook &#8216;In war there are no rules.&#8217; By Haaretz Service Haaretz     Fri, August 20, 2010 Eden Abergil, the former Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been criticized for publishing controversial images on Facebook, allegedly wrote on her Facebook page on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arabs face increased discrimination at Tel Aviv University</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 17 August 2010 Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Palestinian Arab counterparts have been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups. The new initiatives are viewed as part of an ongoing drive by right-wing politicians in Israel to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAVID SAKS: Gaza conflict &#8212; Does Goldstone even realise the damage he has done?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Saks is associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.) Business Day  South Africa – 26 July 2010 HAVE the recent findings of an Israeli military investigation vindicated those of last year’s United Nations (UN) factfinding mission into the Gaza conflict? If so, should the South African Jewish communal leadership now “beg forgiveness” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Pearl act identifies violations of press freedom globally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daoud Kuttab Palestine Note &#8211; 21 Jul 2010 With little fanfare in Washington, and with few countries in the world noticing, President Barack Obama signed into law an act that will hold governments all around the world accountable for violations of human rights. The Daniel Pearl Act of 2009, signed into law on May 27, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel to UN: Human Rights Obligations Don’t Apply in Occupied Territories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICCPR Only Applies Inside Pre-&#8217;67 Borders, Officials Insist by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum  -   July 16, 2010 Addressing the United Nations today regarding its many, many violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Israeli government declared that it believes the treaty, which it ratified in 1991, does not apply in the [...]]]></description>
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