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Good News from the West Bank
Submitted by Dena Brooker on Tue, 2008-12-02 19:13. :: palestinian affairs
This article was aggregated from CIC Scene
Veteran Globe and Mail journalist Patick Martin recently returned to Jerusalem for another stint as the paper’s Mideast bureau chief. He is also blogging about his experiences in the Mideast Notebook. Martin’s latest post, A Tale of Two Palestines, contrasts conditions in Gaza, which are “deteriorating daily,” with “life in several of the Palestinian cities of the West [...]
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Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy, by Moshe Yaalon
Submitted by Dena Brooker on Fri, 2008-11-28 17:38. :: israeli foreign affairs | middle east | palestinian affairs
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David Weinberg, the director of the CIC’s Israel’s office, recommends “Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy,” by Moshe Yaalon, published in AzureOnline.In this wide-ranging essay, Yaalon, a former IDF chief of staff, proposes a different approach to dealing with an old conflict:“The strategy outlined in this paper is not particularly uplifting. I doubt that [...]
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Licia Corbella on Israel’s Tenuous Peace
Submitted by Dena Brooker on Mon, 2008-11-24 21:12. :: israeli foreign affairs | palestinian affairs
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On her Corbella Report blog, Calgary Herald editorial page editor Licia Corbella shares her thoughts after taking a helicopter tour of Israel: “Fully 70 per cent of Israel’s population and 80 per cent of its industrial capacity is within range of Qassam rockets. If everyone could see that, they’d get it. They’d understand why a security [...]
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