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Advertisements The Middle East peace conference, announced with much ballyhoo over the summer and convened by the Bush Administration, is struggling, with good reason. The easiest obstacle to overcome is the one that’s gotten the most publicity: the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert attempting to devise a jointContinue Reading

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Advertisements Virtually any article, except for unusually long ones, necessarily narrows its focus and leaves out important aspects of the broad subject it is discussing. In facile, pseudo-intellectual attacks, those who disagree with such articles often point out what is not there, as if it is possible, in just aContinue Reading

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Advertisements It strikes me as no coincidence that an article appears in today’s New York Times regarding the situation of Palestinian refugees. With Condoleeza Rice engaging in the first serious attempts at reviving significant peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the Arab League just about to re-issue theContinue Reading