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		<title>Jim Lobe: &#8220;Israel&#8217;s Advocate&#8221; to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Lobe&#8217;s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com. &#160; IPS &#8212; November 11, 2011 &#160; WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama&#8217;s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A U.S.-Made Catastrophe: Most of the Blame for the Crisis in Somalia Goes to the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Asad Ismi Asad Ismi is the CCPA Monitor&#8217;s international affairs correspondent. He is author of the radio documentary &#8220;The Ravaging of Africa,&#8221; which has been aired on 28 radio stations, reaching a global audience of about 30 million people. For his publications, visit www.asadismi.ws. &#160; Black Agenda November 8, 2011 &#160; Somalia faces the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balfour’s apartheid legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Littlewood &#160; November 5, 2011 &#160; Arthur Balfour&#8217;s infamous &#8220;Declaration&#8221; was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding. &#160; And to mark the anniversaryIsraelordered its warships to carry out yet another act of piracy on peaceful, innocent shipping carrying humanitarian relief to the imprisoned people ofGaza. &#160; British duplicity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bedouin vs Israel&#8217;s bulldozers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Jewish settlers move into the desert to make it &#8216;bloom&#8217;, an ancient way of life is under threat. In Alsra, Catrina Stewart speaks to Arab families on the fault line &#160; Catrina Stewart &#160; The Independent Friday 04 November 2011 &#160; At the top of an unmarked track leading into the smallvillageofAlsra, in theNegevdesert, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen M. Walt: Romney flunks foreign policy &#8230; again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOREIGN POLICY      Tuesday, November 1, 2011 &#8211; 11:54 AM In a remarkable statement of foreign policy myopia and domestic political pandering, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced last week that the United Statesshould largely subordinate its Middle East policy-making to Israel. In response to a reporter&#8217;s question about moving the U.S.embassy to Jerusalem, Romney said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs. &#160; Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as &#8220;facts&#8221;.    Al Jazeera   Last Modified: 27 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zionist lobby’s First Lady in US Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Hart &#160;   Information Clearing House   November 02, 2011 &#160;  After UNESCO voted to give the Palestinians full membership, the words of State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland contained a hint that the Obama administration at the highest levels is quite seriously concerned about the possible consequences forAmericaof cutting off funds to the UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive interview with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Hanan Chehata &#160; The Middle East Monitor   October 29, 2011 &#160; In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in theOccupiedPalestinianTerritories, talks about the on-going intransigence ofIsraeland its continued failure to abide by international law. In his frank interview Prof. Falk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon game to divide Iranians and Arabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A military planning exercise illuminates the story driving Washington&#8217;s response to the Arab Spring By Sharmine Narwani &#160;  Salon          Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011 3:59 PM UTC &#160; Analysts and pundits have spent the past two weeks puzzling over the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate a Saudi diplomat inWashington, in part because of a complete lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finnish FM: Israeli occupation is &#8216;apartheid&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finland&#8216;s Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja describes occupation of Palestinian lands as apartheid and stresses Israel&#8217;s failure to move forward with two-state solution Ahram Online    AFP , Wednesday 26 Oct 2011 &#160; Israel&#8217;s occupation of the Palestinian territories is tantamount to apartheid, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said Wednesday, warning time was running out for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herman Cain&#8217;s Go-To Historian on the Muslim World: Destroy Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Murphy Tim Murphy is a reporter at Mother Jones. Email him with tips and insights at tmurphy [at] motherjones [dot] com. &#160; MotherJones.com             Fri Oct. 21, 2011 3:00 AM PDT &#160; Now that Herman Cain is officially a front-runner for the Republican nomination, the vetting process has picked up in a hurry. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracing the Middle East weapons flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States, Europe and Russia sold regimes tanks, guns and tear gas in the five years preceding the Arab Spring Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill    Al Jazeera     Last Modified: 20 Oct 2011 08:37 &#160; Earlier this year, as mass popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and audiences across the world sat transfixed [...]]]></description>
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