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		<title>Boycott of Israeli Products at Trader Joe&#8217;s in Albuquerque Backfires Big-time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
I found out about a so-called &#8220;boycott&#8221; of Israeli products at Trader Joe&#8217;s a few weeks ago. Of course, I went straight to the store to buy as many Israeli products as I could get my hands on. Guess what? Most of the Israeli food-stuffs had already sold out. Not really surprising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/18/5177</link>
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		<title>The Worst Crisis in 35 Years?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
On the surface, that the Obama administration decided one fine day to pick a fight with the government of Israel looks like an unmitigated disaster for the Jewish state. What could be worse than its most important ally provoking the worst crisis (according to the Israeli ambassador to Washington) since 1975?



A closer look, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/17/5170</link>
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		<title>Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
It is important to understand that the current controversy over construction in east Jerusalem is neither a public relations&#8217; problem nor a bilateral policy dispute. It arises because of things having nothing directly to do with this specific point.
What are the real issues involved:

1. The U.S. and most European governments are determined not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/17/5167</link>
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		<title>The Jihadi Feels Persecuted - His Aggression is Self-Defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Phyllis Chesler
The other day, a pediatric nurse in New York City refused to dance with Mbarek Lafrem, a Moroccan man, in a New York City bar. What did Lafrem do? He followed her into the women&#8217;s bathroom where he attempted to rape and savagely beat her. The woman was found unconscious and is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/17/5174</link>
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		<title>Bankrupting Terror: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Aish.com&#8217;s &#8220;Heroes of Israel&#8221; series, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is the voice of the victims of terrorism:

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		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/16/5161</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Shiny New Palestinian Militia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
&#8220;The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken&#8221; &#8212; last year that&#8217;s what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force. Slightly hyperbolic, yes, but the description fits because those efforts enhance the fighting power of enemies of the United States and its Israeli ally.

First, a primer about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/16/5158</link>
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		<title>Islamists Respond to Terror Cases with Denial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sid Shahid*
As homegrown terrorism grabbed headlines at the end of 2009, Islamist pressure groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) felt the need to look as if they were responding forcefully. However, all they offered was spin and denial of the very radicalism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/15/5144</link>
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		<title>Norway, Italy, Iran: The Islamist Takeover, The Push Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Phyllis Chesler
&#8230; Norway&#8217;s Human Rights Service (HRS) &#8230; is in danger and &#8230; I will soon write about this. Bruce Bawer has already done so. Please read it. This is very important. HRS is the first, and perhaps the only newspaper in Europe that is focused on the Islamist threat to Europe. European leftists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/15/5149</link>
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		<title>How Quick They Forget: A Short History of U.S. Policy and Israeli Construction in East Jerusalem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
For more than four months the U.S. government has been celebrating Israel agreeing to stop construction on settlements in the West Bank while continuing building in east Jerusalem as a great step forward and Israeli concession deserving a reward. Suddenly, all of this is forgotten to say that Israel building in east Jerusalem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/15/5141</link>
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		<title>British Commander: The IDF Tried to Safeguard Civilians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Middle East Quarterly*
Following a lengthy period during which Hamas bombarded southern Israel unopposed, Israel finally attacked Gaza in an attempt to cripple Hamas&#8217;s fighting capabilities. The ensuing conflict in December 2008 and January 2009 led to a high casualty count on the Palestinian side. Even before the war ended, the U.N. Human Rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/13/5136</link>
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		<title>Immigration &#038; the SPLC - Panel: Stopping &#8216;Hate&#8217; Is Really about Stopping Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (March 10, 2010) &#8212; After the collapse of the Senate amnesty bill in 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined with the National Council of La Raza and others to launch a campaign to smear the three largest mainstream groups making a case for tighter enforcement and lower immigration. At the center of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/13/5133</link>
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		<title>How to Make Defeatism Look Good: Let&#8217;s Give Up and Cheer the Islamists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
I&#8217;m not going to bash or rant about a Newsweek article about Turkey by Owen Matthews&#8211;shocking and dangerous as it is&#8211;but rather talk about what is wrong and inaccurate about it. That article is part of a new wave of defeatism sweeping the West, though it still remains subordinate to the more ostensibly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/12/5128</link>
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		<title>On Biden in Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
Joe Biden&#8217;s trip to Israel fits neatly into the context of the Obama administration&#8217;s internal struggle over Israel policy.
The far left prevailed initially, as evidenced by Hilary Clinton&#8217;s May 2009 declaration that Obama &#8220;wants to see a stop to settlements &#8212; not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions.&#8221; But this approach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/12/5124</link>
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		<title>Demonstrators Square Off At The Waldorf Astoria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fern Sidman
Chants of &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; and &#8220;Israel Is Here To Stay&#8221; resounded along New York City&#8217;s Park Avenue, as both anti-Israel forces and pro-Israel supporters squared off in front of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Tuesday evening, March 9th, while inside the hotel the organization known as The Friends of the Israel Defense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/10/5120</link>
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		<title>The Murder of Rachel Corrie: Did the ISM Set Her Up to be Killed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Solidarity Movement expressed motives for wanting peace activist Rachel Corrie dead.]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/09/5114</link>
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		<title>NYT and WaPo: Muhammad is the Prophet of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Johanna Markind*
Is Muhammad more deserving of reverential treatment than Jesus? The New York Times seems to think so.
A Times article reporting on the collapse of Christian communities in the Middle East contains two references to Jesus. Not &#8220;Christ,&#8221; which is a religious title, or &#8220;Jesus Christ,&#8221; but simply &#8220;Jesus,&#8221; who was (or may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/08/5110</link>
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		<title>Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn&#8217;t Your Policy on Fire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
The story of the U.S. engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran&#8217;s nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there&#8217;s some new development showing how the Obama Administration is acting like a deer standing in the middle of a busy highway admiring the pretty automobile headlights.
Or to put it a different way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/08/5106</link>
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		<title>How the Mubarak Regime Enables the Persecution of Egypt&#8217;s Copts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A briefing by Magdi Khalil*

Magdi Khalil is an Egyptian-born human rights activist and prominent figure on Arabic media, such as Al Jazeera and Al Ahram. He is director of the Middle East Freedom Forum, an Egyptian think-tank that campaigns for human rights, secularism, and democracy. On February 26, Mr. Khalil addressed the Middle East Forum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/07/5103</link>
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		<title>Stand Up For Israel During Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the ADL:
Right now, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place in more than a dozen cities and on many college campuses. In past years, IAW has been marked by extreme anti-Israel rhetoric, including accusations of Israeli racism and apartheid, and calls for boycott and divestment campaigns against Israel. We anticipate similar efforts to delegitimize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/06/5099</link>
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		<title>The Goddess That Failed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Phyllis Chesler
For years now, newly arrived refugees have been contacting me. They write to tell me that they&#8217;ve lost nearly everybody they once knew. Their whole world is gone now. Some whisper over the phone. Others write long letters. They ask me how I&#8217;ve managed.
I am talking about ideological refugees from feminism, leftism, gay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/06/5096</link>
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		<title>Americans Love Israel Even More Than You Think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
International relations isn&#8217;t a popularity contest. But public opinion polls can be useful in countering myths and examining the impact of policymaker, elite, and media campaigns on the masses. 
Which brings us to Gallup&#8217;s latest poll measuring how Americans feel about different countries. The more one examines the results, the more amazing they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/05/5092</link>
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		<title>CAIR: Defending Kifah Mustapha, The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Holy Land Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Whitehead
     On Wednesday, March 3, Chicago&#8217;s WLS-TV I-Team reported that the Illinois State Police have reconsidered the appointment of Kifah Mustapha as a Muslim Chaplain.  Terrorism expert Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is identified as the leading cause of Mustapha&#8217;s  reconsideration.
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		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/05/5089</link>
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		<title>The Color and Hue of a New Generation of Artists: Artists 4 Israel Counter Anti-Israel Propaganda through Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fern Sidman
Hip Hop artists and graffiti virtuosos from New York painting their way throughout Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Sderot? Who&#8217;d a thunk it, but it appears that a new organization called Artists 4 Israel will be doing just that. Founded about a year ago following Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, young artists in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/04/5086</link>
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		<title>How the Islamist Mindset Rationalizes - and Promotes - &#8216;Sex Sins&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
Is it inconsistent for Muslim &#8220;holy warriors&#8221; to engage in voyeuristic acts of lasciviousness? Because would-be jihadists and martyrs have been known to frequent strip bars &#8212; such as the 9/11 hijackers and Major Nidal Hasan, whose &#8220;late-night jiggle-joint carousing stands at odds with the picture of a devout Muslim&#8221; &#8212; many Americans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/03/5082</link>
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		<title>Artists Against Hatred: Confronting Genocide in the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Phyllis Chesler
Everywhere I turn &#8212; or so it seems &#8212; attacks on Israel and Israelis are in process. The other day, after a long day of writing, I idly, instinctively channel surfed &#8212; and there was the infamous Christiane Amanpour grilling Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. Oh, how this half-British, half-Iranian journalist relished this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/03/5079</link>
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		<title>Will Obama Have an Iraq Crisis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
If&#8211;and I repeat, if&#8211;this story is true it is going to be a very big development that may, as they like to see in the television promos, change the Obama administration forever. According to Thomas Ricks, the former Washington Post military correspondent, General Raymond Odierno, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/02/5075</link>
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		<title>Crisis in Turkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward Islamism or reverts to its traditional secularism. The denouement has major implications for Muslims everywhere.

Turkey&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/03/02/5070</link>
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		<title>Jew-Haters: Beware the American Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
All you Jew-haters and Israel-haters (same thing) think you know what&#8217;s best for the rest of us, just like Hitler and Stalin did. The problem is that you&#8217;re completely out of step with the collective intelligence of the greatest nation in the world, the U.S.:
&#8230; The findings of the February 19, 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/02/28/5067</link>
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		<title>The Northern Tinder Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
The war of words is continuing.  The latest salvos were fired last week by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and his Lebanese ally and client Hassan Nasrallah.  Ahmedinejad reportedly told Nasrallah that if Israel attacks Hizballah, the response should be sufficient to lead to the closure, once and for all, of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/02/28/5063</link>
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		<title>Who Rules Iran? - Iranian Ambitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Reza Molavi and K. Luisa Gandolfo*
In the 30-year reign of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Republic, there have been few controversies as serious as the one surrounding the 2009 elections. The votes that brought Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power for a second term have been challenged, not just on paper, but by citizens taking to the streets in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2010/02/27/5060</link>
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