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	<description>There is no reason the Middle East cannot be a liberal polity.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>5 myths about being &#8216;Pro-Israel&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/5-myths-about-being-pro-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Thomas Fuchs

By Jeremy Ben-Ami
Six decades ago, my father fought alongside Menachem Begin for Israel&#8217;s independence. If you&#8217;d have told him back then that politicians in the world&#8217;s last superpower would be jockeying today to see who can be more &#8220;pro-Israel,&#8221; he would have laughed at you. Grateful as I am for decades of U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Jeremiah Wright</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/hillary-clintons-jeremiah-wright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 03:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Darrow

Sally Quinn nails it in a brutally candid post that lays bare the true politics of association in an alleged feminist&#8217;s career:
“You don’t choose your family but you choose what church you want to attend,” she said. But you do choose your husband.
She chose Bill Clinton. And she has not gotten up and moved.
Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marxists in the White House</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/marxists-in-the-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 03:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hitchens tells a story about the time that the newly appointed Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, first came to Washington, and stayed in a wing of the White House, along with other members of his administration and various figures—Kurdish, Shia and Sunni—who had participated in the movement to topple Saddam. Hitchens was invited to a reception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The post-American world</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-post-american-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria discusses his new book “The Post American World” at TPM Cafe, in which he poses questions he says are “fundamental to our understanding of American foreign policy.”
Zakaria asserts that although the world is in a relatively peaceful period, the United States “[has] done a great job of scaring the hell out of people.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiki-war in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/wiki-war-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 05:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Frazer Hudson

by Alex Beam
What if they decided to pursue the Arab-Israeli conflict by other means? Inevitably, it would take place on the Internet. And inevitably Wikipedia would be involved.
In what was probably not a very smart idea, Gilead Ini, a senior research analyst for Camera, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom&#8217;s unsteady march: America&#8217;s role in building Arab democracy</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/freedoms-unsteady-march-americas-role-in-building-arab-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her book, Freedom&#8217;s Unsteady March, Tamara Cofman Wittes argues that democratic reform in the Arab world is neither a luxury nor a pipe dream, but a necessity, an essential component of any strategy to achieve long-term American goals in that critical region:
&#8220;A proper understanding of America&#8217;s role and its limits is necessary to transform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain on oil and war</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/mccain-on-oil-and-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Paul Slater

via: Mark Nickolas&#8217; Blog
File this one away:

Senator Obama and Senator Clinton want to set a date for withdraw. That&#8217;s what they want to do is get everybody out. I believe that would lead to catastrophe and chaos and that we would have the whole region including the whole region and the country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s sly games in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/irans-sly-games-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 03:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Sam Hadley

by Fouad Ajami
We needn&#8217;t give credence to the idea of a vast &#8220;Shiite crescent&#8221; stretching from Iran to Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to appreciate the challenge posed by the Iranian theocrats to the American project in Iraq and to the order of that Greater Middle East. These are crafty players, the men who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary strangelove</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/hillary-strangelove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Strangelove
by The Boston Globe 
[via: The Personal is Political]

AMERICANS have learned to take with a grain of salt much of the rhetoric in a campaign like the current Democratic donnybrook between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so Tuesday morning, the day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Israel a real 60th birthday gift</title>
		<link>http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/give-israel-a-real-60th-birthday-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 06:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[img: Michael Sheehy


George Bush heads to Israel next week for Israel’s 60th birthday bash. And what’s the gift he’s bringing?
More of the same weak leadership and failed policies that have made America, Israel, and the Middle East less safe. Is that the kind of present you bring to a friend’s 60th birthday party? We don’t [...]]]></description>
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