[AnNahar] Egypt kept its Rafah border crossing with Gazoo open for a third day on Tuesday, state media said, after nearly 2,000 people used the terminal in the first two days.
The Rafah crossing, the only access point to the Gazoo Strip not controlled by Israel, opened on Sunday for only the second time in two months to allow people stranded in Egypt to enter the Paleostinian enclave.
State news agency MENA said that 1,950 people had used the crossing since it was opened.
It said that 1,137 people came from Gazoo and 813 went to the territory from Egypt on Sunday and Monday.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said last month that more than 3,500 Paleostinians had been stranded in Egypt since the crossing was closed following a suicide kaboom in North Sinai on October 24 that killed 30 soldiers.
Many Paleostinians who travel through Rafah are students heading to universities in Egypt or beyond, or people in need of medical treatment.
During the first six months of the year, when the crossing was closed for a total of 22 days, an average of 6,400 people crossed each month, the U.N. said.
[Ynet] Qatari ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... -owned Al Jazeera suspended broadcast of its Egypt-focused channel on Monday, citing a product restructuring, as Doha and Cairo seek to mend ties that deteriorated last year after the army toppled elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Cairo has accused Al Jazeera of being a mouthpiece for the now-banned Moslem Brüderbund - which it denies - and security forces closed its offices in the Egyptian capital hours after Morsi's ouster.
But the network continued to broadcast its Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr (AJMM), which covered daily protests by supporters of the Brotherhood, from Doha, irritating Egypt's leaders.
The decision to end those broadcasts follows a meeting on Saturday between Sisi, who has since won a presidential election, and a special envoy of the emir of Qatar. The meeting was the latest step in a Saudi-brokered effort to repair relations.
[AnNahar] Tunisia's new leader Beji Caid Essebsi said the country has turned the page on dictatorship after a presidential vote that European observers hailed on Tuesday as "credible and transparent."
But outgoing president Moncef Marzouki, who lost the election, said he was creating a new movement to prevent the North African nation sliding back into authoritarian rule after the victory by the veteran politician.
Essebsi, an 88-year-old who served under previous Tunisian regimes, was on Monday declared the winner of a vote seen as a landmark for the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
His election rounded off Tunisia's transition to democracy and has won praise from Western leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama That's just how white folks will do you.... . European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... observers reported on Tuesday that Tunisians had voted "for the first time in a credible and transparent presidential election."
The head of the EU mission, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, said however that "private television channels had clearly favored the candidate Essebsi." That was in line with complaints from Marzouki during an often bitter and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... campaign that has raised concerns that Essebsi's victory marks the return of Tunisia's old guard.
But Essebsi, an anti-Islamist lawyer, insisted Tunisia would not turn back history. "I am for completely turning the page on the past, we must go beyond the past and look to the future," he said in a nationally televised interview late on Monday.
Marzouki, a long-exiled 69-year-old former rights activist, has conceded defeat and called for calm after hundreds of his supporters clashed with police on Sunday and Monday. On national television late Monday, Marzouki urged supporters to respect the result and return to their homes "in the name of national unity."
"These are the rules of the democratic process," he said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... on Tuesday he implied that Tunisia could yet see the return of dictatorship.
"I announce here the launch of the citizens' movement," he told a crowd of supporters from the balcony of his campaign headquarters. He called on "democrats" to unite to "prevent the return of dictatorship" four years after the revolution of January 2011.
"We are again at a crossroads," Marzouki said. "This movement aims to prevent the return of dictatorship, because unfortunately there are some faceless myrmidons among these people who seek a return to the past, and this is a danger for Tunisia.
"Dirty money and biased media cannot change the course of history," he said.
Essebsi is now expected to begin forming a government, after his Nidaa Tounes party won parliamentary polls in October.
The moderately Islamist Ennahda party, which was in power after the revolution and installed Marzouki as president, came second in the general election and has not ruled out joining in a governing coalition.
The presidential vote -- the first time Tunisians have freely elected their head of state since independence in 1956 -- was seen as a milestone for the country that sparked the Arab Spring with the 2011 ouster of longtime strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The revolution that began in Tunisia spread to many parts of the Arab world, with mass protests in Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen.
In every country except Tunisia the revolution was followed by violent turmoil or, as in Syria's case, a devastating civil war.
Obama hailed the election as "a vital step toward the completion of Tunisia's momentous transition to democracy".
President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... of La Belle France, Tunisia's former colonial ruler, praised Tunisians for their "determination, sense of responsibility and spirit of compromise."
The next government will face major challenges. Tunisia's economy is struggling to recover from the upheaval of the revolution and there are fears that widespread joblessness will cause social unrest. A nascent jihadist threat has also emerged, with bad boy groups long suppressed under Ben Ali carrying out attacks including the killings of two anti-Islamist politicians.
Tunisian newspapers also underlined the difficulties ahead, with daily La Presse saying the new leader must deal with "a massive debt, weak growth, high unemployment, deteriorating competitiveness and highly threatened security".
Le Temps hailed Tunisia for emerging "victorious from a grueling and painful ordeal", adding that voters had not given Essebsi a "blank check" to do as he pleases.
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[Ynet] A special tribunal in Bangladesh has convicted a man of collaborating with the Mighty Pak Army and sentenced him to death for several killings during the nation's 1971 independence war.
Judge Obaidul Hasan announced the verdict against Syed Mohammed Kaiser in a packed court room in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Bangladesh blames Pak soldiers and local collaborators for the deaths of 3 million people during the nine-month war. An estimated 200,000 women were raped and about 10 million people were forced to take shelter in refugee camps in neighboring India.
The 73-year-old man, a former Cabinet member under a former military dictator, was in the court for the verdict and sentencing.
Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. initiated the process of trying people suspected of carrying out war crimes in 1971.
SEOUL -- Some major North Korean websites remained blocked Wednesday for the second straight day amid growing speculation over cyber warfare between Washington and Pyongyang.
Since going down Monday evening, the website of the North's main propaganda organ, Uriminzokkiri, remained inaccessible as of early Wednesday. The access to other well-known North Korean propaganda websites, including Ryugyong and Ryomyong, was also blocked as of Wednesday morning.
The Internet outage comes as speculation continued over who is responsible for the blockage.
If we had a CIA worth anything...
A day earlier, the home pages of North Korea's key news media like the Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun went down for nearly 10 hours before going back online in late morning. They went down again around midnight before resuming one hour later.
Internet performance analyst Dyn Research reported that the North Korean Internet had been down for one hour since 00:41 a.m. (Korean time).
According to speculation, the U.S. may be behind the latest outage as it came just two days after U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to "respond proportionally" against the North's alleged hacking of Sony Pictures.
The North had warned of retaliation against Sony's plan to release the film "The Interview," based on the plot of an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jung-un.
Speaking of the North Korean Internet problem, the U.S. government has neither confirmed nor denied its role in the outage.
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[BBC] Internet services have been restored in North Korea after an almost unprecedented internet outage following a cyber security row with the US.
Though there has been no comment from the authorities in Pyongyang, South Korean officials and US experts reported the restoration.
Some analysts say the country's web access was cut entirely for a time.
China meanwhile has denounced reports suggesting it was responsible for the North Korean online shutdown.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that such reports were "speculative" and had "no basis in reality".
"These reports themselves are extremely irresponsible, unprofessional and misleading," she added.
China's permanent representative to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... has called for all sides to avoid an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula after the UN Security Council put the North's human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... record on its agenda.
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[IsraelTimes] Prominent French journalist Eric Zemmour was back in the spotlight over the weekend after being barred by a news channel for saying Moslems were elbowing French people out of the suburbs.
The iTELE channel said late Friday that Zemmour would not be invited back to a talk show he has been appearing on since 2003 following an outcry over his latest remarks.
Zemmour, whose parents are Jewish Berbers who emigrated from Algeria in the 1950s, recently published a best-seller titled ?The French Suicide,? which chronicles what Zemmour calls the gradual weakening of the French nation-state from the early 1970s until today.
Zemmour is no stranger to polemics; he has been convicted in the past of inciting racial hatred.
The latest controversy erupted in the wake of an interview to Italia?s Corriere della Sera newspaper in which he said ?Moslems kept to themselves in the suburbs? and the ?French were forced to move out.?
The interview was conducted two months ago, but Zemmour?s comments only sent French liberals up in arms after left-wing politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, who served as La Belle France?s education minister and ran for president in 2012, translated the interview and posted it on his blog.
In his blog entry, Melenchon said Zemmour was calling for the ?deportation? of French Moslems, even those who had been born in the country.
Dreadful.
In the actual interview, the Italian journalist asked Zemmour ?then what do you suggest La Belle France do? Deport five million Moslems?? Zemmour himself never used the word ?deportation,? a word with a dark history in La Belle France, associated with the sending of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Second World War to death camps across Europe.
So he never said the dreadful thing he is accused of? How unexpected.
Zemmour is a well-known media commentator and columnist for Le Figaro newspaper who prides himself on his outspoken defiance of what he deems politically correct, woolly liberals.
And in this case, also lying.
La Belle France is home to five million Moslems, the largest population in Europe. It also has the largest Jewish diaspora on the continent.
The SNJ journalists union hailed the ?strong decision? taken by the television channel, a position taken by SOS Racisme, an anti-racism watchdog.
But far-right leader Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front party, tweeted: ?The ban on Zemmour is detestable.?
Louis Alliot, Le Pen?s deputy, said ?I nixed iTele starting now as a source of information. I invite the democrats to do likewise.?
Zemmour, however, received backing also from politicians closer to the French mainstream: Eric Ciotti, secretary-general of UMP (the party of former and potentially future president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... ), tweeted ?The kicking out of Eric Zemmour is not good news for democracy #thoughtpolice.?
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Nah. Chicks dig good-looking guys, whether they're jerks or not, in the same way that guys dig good-looking girls, even if they happen to be a handful and then some.
[HUFFpoo] The former Navy SEAL who ignited a controversy when he publicly claimed credit for killing Osama bin Laden is under investigation for possibly leaking official secrets, The Daily Beast has learned.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has received an allegation that Robert O’Neill, who recounted his role in the 2011 raid on bin Laden’s compound to several journalists, may have revealed classified information to people who weren’t authorized to receive it, according to individuals familiar with the matter. The NCIS has begun an investigation into the allegation to determine whether it has any merit. Bob, you talked to the WRONG journalists. Next time go with the White House recommended news agency, NOT FOX !
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Yet another example of the way tyrannical goverment is merely the transition from the rule of law to the selective enforcement of a web of laws that nearly all of us violate unknowingly. Fox is on the enemies list and others are thus warned!
[DAWN] While Pakistain grapples with growing religious extremism, the federal government has failed to disburse funds for a programme aimed at mainstreaming religious seminaries.
Seminaries have often been seen as the breeding ground for holy warrior ideology and there have been calls for reform of curriculum at these institutions.
As a response to this the federal government designed a pilot project aimed at mainstreaming seminaries or Madressahs in 10 districts.
An amount of Rs50 million had been allocated for Madressah mainstreaming in the fiscal year 2014-15.
Under the project, Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training through National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) planned to introduce English, Science, Social Studies and Mathematics in the curricula of Madressahs.
"Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's government announced a project worth a billion rupees aimed at Madressah reform but the outcome remained negligible so this time the government is working on a pilot project," said a senior officer of the education ministry.
"The basic aim of this project is to introduce primary education alongside the curricula of seminaries so that chances of students pursuing higher education are increased," the officer said.
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[DAWN] RepresenÂtatives of the country's major political parties failed to reach a consensus on the establishment of military courts to try terrorists, but agreed on the need for a speedy justice system to deal with terrorism cases.
The Anti-Terrorism Action Plan Committee, headed by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , held two lengthy sessions spread over more than seven hours on Tuesday and finalised a draft that proposes, among other things, a broader approach to internal security by calling for addressing hate crimes and extremism; ensuring the de- weaponisation of society and registration of madressahs; as well as committing to the disruption of myrmidon groups and their communication networks.
A 17-point draft of the committee's proposals -- a copy of which is available with Dawn -- will be placed for approval before a multi-party conference convened by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday.
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Speedy Justice sounds like something outta Wade.
[Xinhua] No pro-India political party has got majority to secure the sole government formation in Indian-controlled Kashmire, election officials said on Tuesday.
The counting of votes in the restive region began on Tuesday, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerging as the largest party with 28 seats, followed by the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) getting 25 seats.
The National Conference (NC) ended up getting 15 seats, while the Congress party and he independents won 12 and seven seats respectively.
BJP has got mandate from the Hindu-dominated Jammu province, while PDP has got votes from the Moslem-dominated areas.
The five-phase staggered polls in the region concluded on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of people ignored the boycott call of turban groups and separatists opposing New Delhi's rule and voted in the election.
According to the Indian election commission, the polls recorded a 66-percent turnout.
Analysts say, for the government formation, the parties have to form a coalition.
The region features a 87-strong assembly and for claiming the government, the coalition has to cobble up at least 44 seats.
The right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP who were heavily banking on Narendra Modi's charisma has failed to accomplish their target of "mission 44 plus".
Kashmire, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistain is claimed by both in full.
Since their independence from Britannia, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmire.
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[Ynet] Pakistain plans to execute around 500 murderous Moslems in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.
"Interior ministry has finalised the cases of 500 convicts who have exhausted all the appeals, their mercy petitions have been turned down by the president and their executions will take place in coming weeks," a senior government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
[IraqiNews.com] U.S. Pentagon front man and Navy Commander William Urban said Monday, that the cost of the U.S. military operations against the IS group in Iraq and Syria has surpassed the $1 billion mark.
According to ?The Hill? newspaper, Pentagon front man William Urban said that the cost of the kinetic operations by the U.S. government has surpassed the $1 billion mark and continues to climb, noting that the mentioned figure excludes earlier activities which the B.O. regime began in June.
?As of Dec. 11, 2014, the total cost of operations related to [ISIS] since kinetic operations started on Aug. 8, 2014 is $1.02 billion and the average daily cost is $8.1 million,? Urban said.
This comes after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced 1,300 U.S. troops will be deployed to Iraq as part of the 1,500 troops authorized by President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... last month.
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Sort of blows a years worth of training, maintenance, and class IX funding. You think it's coming out of graft R&D or procurement?
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Probably a lot cheaper to arm the Kurds. $1b in weaponry would have gone a long way, re body armor, ammo, artillery, anti-tank missiles and technicals.
[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, a U.S. military plane took off from Prague Airport carrying Czech ammunition on its way to Arbil to support the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the fight against the terrorist organization of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
A spokeswoman for the Czech Staff of the Armed Forces said, that the American plane carries on board nearly 5,000 anti-tank missiles.
Czech military plane transferred military equipment as well as U.S. members to Czech area of Pardobeiss from Ramstein Base in Germany to help load ammunition on board a plane destined to Arbil.
[IraqiNews.com] US Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced that it received a request from Iraq to send a thousand military armored Humvees.
The ministry's Military Cooperation Department said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, "Iraq has submitted an application to the United States to get thousand military armored vehicles, model M1151A1 HMMWV," noting that, "US State Department approved deal valued at $579 million."
The department stated, "The deal also includes a thousand M2 machine guns, and a thousand MK grenade launcher", pointing out that, "AM General company will implement the deal once it's signed."
Noteworthy, in the end of October 2014, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense submitted a request to the United States for 46 thousand Abrams tank shells at a total value of $600 million.
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Didn't we just see a number of functional vehicles turned to debris?
The early Humvees were designed as thin-skins; slightly armored low-conflict vehicles. Many of them developed cracks and fractures in various components and the body when armor kits were applied. At a certain point repairs and mods don't cut it any more.
Sorry, we already gave them out to police forces.
They got the old schtuff, for better or worse.
Do they make payments on these deals? Are they charged interest if they do?
Don't know. Probably a mix of mil-aid and IOUs, possibly a third party paying part of the bill.
[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said, that Jordan has offered to supply Iraqi troops with arms and gear needed to defeat the ISIS group, adding that the first group of Iraqi army will get training in Jordan within a few weeks.
After his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah ll, Obeidi announced, that Jordan will begin to train the first group of Iraqi troops in the next few weeks, adding that Jordanian King Abdullah ll expressed readiness to supply Iraqi forces with arms and equipment needed to fight the ISIS group hard boyz who have seized large swathes of territories in Iraq.
"The arms warehouses of Jordan from weapons and ammunition will be open to the Iraqi army," Obeidi said.
Noteworthy, Jordan has joined the US-led bombing campaign against the ISIS group in Iraq and Syria, providing a wide range of logistics for the international coalition, and offering intelligence regarding the Lion of Islams' movements.
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Ah, confirmation, The Arab Legion prepares to take the field.
[IraqiNews.com] The Dutch Foreign Ministry announced sending 130 military trainers to Iraq to train the Iraqi security forces and the Peshmerga forces for one year where Kurdistan Region will host them.
[Ynet] What began several years ago as a local initiative in a few universities has turned into a poisonous, organized and well-funded campaign with clear goals ? isolating and boycotting Israel in general and the Israeli academia in particular.
Several weeks ago, I returned from a coast-to-coast tour of the United States and Canada with mixed feelings. In dozens of events and meetings, I was exposed to a complicated and alarming state of affairs.
I'll start with the good news: Our academic ties are in a state of unprecedented prosperity. In all my meetings with university presidents and bigwigs, I encountered a favorable and warm attitude and a strong desire to advance academic cooperation in a variety of fields. So far for the half-full glass.
The picture is completely different on university campuses. Here Israel's situation is difficult, or should I say on the verge of collapse. According to an Anti-Defamation League report, published about a month ago, some 90 anti-Israel incidents have taken place on campuses across the US since the beginning of the academic year ? double the number of anti-Israel incidents in the same period last year.
These incidents include protests, mock "checkpoints" and "apartheid walls," and even "eviction notices" slid under the doors of Jewish and Israeli students.
As many as 15 student councils discussed and voted on proposals for divestment from Israel and an academic boycott of Israel. Although not all of these proposals were accepted, the fact that the issue was raised for discussion and voted on to such an extent is an unprecedented phenomenon.
While the events of Operation Protective Edge provide a partial explanation for the rise in the number of anti-Israel incidents, the tone, the arguments and the type of incidents leave no room for doubt: What began several years ago as a local initiative on a few campuses has turned into a poisonous, organized and well-funded campaign with clear goals ? isolating and boycotting Israel in general and the Israeli academia in particular.
These organizations are making wide use of the social media to distribute anti-Israel material, including clear anti-Semitic material.
At the same time, a campaign has been waged in many places in a bid to defame and intimidate pro-Israel activists on campuses. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly at the University of Minnesota recently decided to blacklist an Israeli candidate for the Student Service Fee Committee. The decision likened pro-Israel organizations founded by the candidate to the notorious Ku Klux Klan.
Another alarming trend is the increase in the involvement of faculty and university academic departments in sponsoring and even taking an active part in anti-Israel events on campus. The ADL report includes 57 such incidents in the past two years.
The pro-Israel students feel helpless in light of this phenomenon. Many feel threatened, and in conversations with them they express their fear of highlighting Jewish features and publicly expressing their support for Israel. "Where are you? Where is the Israeli response?" they asked me repeatedly.
That's a good question. For an onlooker, it's hard to shake off the feeling that the State of Israel, and its different branches, as well as the Jewish organizations which are active on the campuses (sometimes in an outrageous lack of coordination), are failing to provide a real response to the anti-Israel wave.
The Jewish students themselves hardly take part in events on campus and are not showing much interest in workshops and programs aimed at training them to represent Israel on the PR level.
The multitude of anti-Israel incidents, the aggressive discourse and the fact that almost every public event dealing with Israel, Judaism or the Middle East is accompanied by a loud public argument, instinctively deters many people from dealing with Israel, even in fields which have nothing to do with the conflict.
Israel's decision makers should give this important issue a higher priority on their agenda. There is an urgent need for a reorganization of the system on Israel's image on campuses in North America and Europe. The state must urgently appoint an official to deal with this issue and back the appointment with funds and authorities.
Every day that goes by without firm action continues the destructive damage to Israel's status and image among tomorrow's leaders, movers and shakers and voters.
Peretz Lavie is the president of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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The universities are not propagating this, other more well organized groups are. Get it together and find out who they are, where the money is coming from to support these yahoos and end it.
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They can join all the rapists men getting evicted as well.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
SEOUL -- Some major North Korean websites remained blocked Wednesday for the second straight day amid growing speculation over cyber warfare between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Pervez 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
