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	<title>Rebel Yid - Ideas beyond the left/right, red/blue, and liberal/conservative thinking &#187; Middle East</title>
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		<title>More than Mere Tactics</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/more-than-mere-tactics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossadegh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley McChrsytal]]></category>

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At an industry meeting last week at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO, the first speaker on Monday, May 2,  was General Stanley McChrystal.  Given the killing of Bin Laden the day before he changed his topic from one of leadership to speak about the special forces and the situation in the middle east.
He touched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Israelis did not Kill Massoud Mohammadi</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/the-israelis-did-not-kill-massoud-mohammadi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massoud Mohammadi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; according to Mideast expert Micah Halpern
Excerpt
This explosion was so powerful and out of control it was designed to kill, maim and damage in a wide circumference around the bomb. This was not the work of a Western intelligence force, it was not even the work of a Western assassin. Israel has perfected the art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace is Not a Process</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/10/peace-is-not-a-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe
Peace vs the &#8216;peace process&#8217;
October 14, 2009
Excerpts:

In an important article in the current Middle East Quarterly, Daniel Pipes reviews the terrible failure of the 1993 Oslo accords, and homes in on the root fallacy of the diplomatic approach it embodied: the belief that the Arab-Israeli war can “be concluded through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Twitter Conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/07/a-twitter-conspiracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/07/a-twitter-conspiracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tehran Times complains that Israel has too many friends on the internet. Read the story here.
It is hard to make this stuff up.
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		<title>Ironies of Modern War</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/04/ironies-of-modern-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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When the Soviet Union lost the Cold War and the Berlin Wall came down, it was a momentous time. We expected peace in our time. Without two superpowers deterred by mutually assured destruction (MAD) the threat of a nuclear holocaust became distant.
The United States was the sole modern army and no army could dare challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Preconditions?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/12/whose-preconditions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/12/whose-preconditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;.. we have been talking to the Iranians, almost non stop, for 30 years. There isn&#8217;t an American president from Jimmy Carter to the present who has not authorized negotiations with Iran. The classic case occurred during the Clinton administration. We ended all kinds of sanctions against Iran, let all kinds of Iranians into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunnis and Shias in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/11/sunnis-and-shias-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/11/sunnis-and-shias-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunnis believe that we know the succession of Mohammed therefore religious leaders should function in government.
Shiites believe that the rightful successor to Mohamemd is yet to come and therefore no religious leader should sit in a positon of government power. This is why Shiite leaders in Iraq do not participate in Parliament.
But this Shiite position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reactions to the Lack of Jewish Support</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/06/reactions-to-the-lack-of-jewish-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/06/reactions-to-the-lack-of-jewish-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest proponents for a pro Israel policy are the evangelical Christians and the Jews, in that order. It is a given that the evangelicals will have little influence in an Obama administration. The Jewish leverage is at risk if they do not support Obama and he wins. Many would question how much influence they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s Middle East Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/05/britains-middle-east-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/05/britains-middle-east-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Triple Cross: How Britain Created the Arab-Israel ConflictBy Rachel Neuwirth
in American Thinker.
Rachel writes a wonderful article about the incredible hypocrisy  of the British media and academics constantly condemning Israel when the British themselves were monumentally repsonsible for creating the mess in the Middle East to begin with. Her article is a great brief history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make the Oil Problem Worse</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/05/how-to-make-the-oil-problem-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/05/how-to-make-the-oil-problem-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The call for an excess profits tax on our oil companies is economically ignorant and dangerous.  This was last tried under our worst president ever, Jimmy Carter, and it led to higher prices, and gas lines.
While we all feel the pain of higher gas prices, we at least have plenty of supply.  Imagine [...]]]></description>
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