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The connotations of suicide bombing are such that we often think of bombers as poor, desperate men from  untoward backgrounds.  As the recent discovery of  “Jihadi Jane” and Nigerian  has shown us, this is not the case.  Often, suicide bombers are men from middle-class families. The evidence remains mixed, however.
In a recent paper presentation [...]

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The Foreign Policy association reports,
In order to return the biblical species of deer now known as the Persian Fallow Deer to Israel an espionage mission was set up by an Israeli general who was also a zealous conservationist.
Israel had struck a deal with the Shah of Iran and his son to capture two of [...]

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The UN, the United States, and other bodies often send money to the West Bank and Gaza alike.  However, their  donations in Palestine end up being squandered due to the usual littany of complaints: no transparency and high levels of  bureaucracy.
Which is why it’s good news that
The Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), a publicly owned investment [...]

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A post I wrote about the situation in Ghajar is now a WSJ news item.
GHAJAR, on the Israel-Lebanon border—The Obama administration is pushing Israel to withdraw its forces from the Lebanese side of this farming village, where 2,200 residents—all Israeli citizens—are stuck in limbo astride the border of two rival nations.

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From the FAS project on government secrecy (via my husband) comes the news that Fatah is revising its charter for 2010, maybe influenced by possible changes in the Hamas charter, who said they may reconsider their charter goal of calling for the elmination of Israel.    Translation here.
Last year, the Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah [...]