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		<title>A Sentence by the State Department Sentences the World to Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
If I&#8217;ve ever seen a single sentence that spells disaster for the Middle East it&#8217;s this one:
&#8220;&#8216;People say things in a campaign and then when they get elected they actually have to govern,&#8217; [U.S. State Department] spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.&#8221;
The specific context of this statement were remarks by the Obama Administration&#8217;s favorite Egyptian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/22/9529</link>
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		<title>Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
Considering that Easter, one of the highest Christian holidays, comes in April, Christian persecution in Muslim nations—from sheer violence to oppressive laws—was rampant last month: In Nigeria, where jihadis seek to expunge all traces of Christianity, a church was bombed during Easter Sunday, killing some 50 worshippers; in Turkey, a pastor was beaten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/21/9526</link>
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		<title>Jerusalem: The Media Myths (Lies) About &#8216;Two Cities&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite all the archeological/historical evidence of three thousand of years of a flourishing, continuous Jewish presence in their undivided city of Jerusalem, many people are inundated with lies about Arab claims to the city. In reality, the division of Jerusalem began in 1948 when Jordan invaded and physically cut the city into two pieces. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/20/9519</link>
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		<title>Gulf Union Fails to Materialize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
Saudi and Gulf leaders held discussions in Riyadh this week on proposed moves toward greater unity. The meeting, however, revealed little genuine enthusiasm for such a project outside of Saudi Arabia itself and beleaguered Bahrain.
But while it is unlikely that proposals for greater Gulf unity will bear fruit, the very fact that they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/19/9515</link>
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		<title>Watching the new state of South Sudan fall into chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi*
When the state of South Sudan came into existence last July, with great fanfare, Israel was one of the first nations to recognize it, having provided support for South Sudanese leaders since the 1960s during the first civil war. Indeed, in late December, Salva Kiir Mayardit - the president of South Sudan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/18/9511</link>
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		<title>California State University, Northridge (CSUN) officials wage political war against pro-Israel, pro-Jewish supporters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Gerofsky
AMCHA is an organization that wants Jewish students to be treated with the same respect, rights, and concern as all other students on California campuses. The Never Again Group (NAG) of Canada finds the escalating tensions and outright political war between California State University, Northridge (CSUN) officials and AMCHA to be unacceptable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/18/9504</link>
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		<title>Uncovering Early Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/17/9500</link>
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		<title>Canadian public must demand politicians and police forces eliminate politics of fear and appeasement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Gerofsky
When will the Canadian police return to treating thugs like thugs and citizens with respect by protecting good people against the thugs? It seems that in places where there have been recent protests such as Caledonia, parts of Quebec, and many other places across Canada, violent protestors are treated with respect under the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/16/9495</link>
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		<title>The Clichéd Sentimentality of Jon Meacham on PBS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jerry Kammer, CIS.org
When PBS asks someone like Jon Meacham — contributing editor to Time magazine, former editor of Newsweek, television pundit, and author of a Pulitzer-prize winning biography of Andrew Jackson — to write an essay on immigration, the result is likely to be a measure of elite media thinking on the topic.
And so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/15/9490</link>
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		<title>Mexican Jihad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da&#8217;wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/15/9486</link>
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		<title>Did Muhammad Exist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A briefing by Robert Spencer*
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, has released a new book titled, Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam&#8217;s Obscure Origins. On April 24th, Mr. Spencer spoke on his book at a joint meeting of the Middle East Forum and Gatestone Institute in New York City.

Did the Prophet Muhammad really exist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/14/9482</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Our brethren are not alone,&#8221; say AFSI members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fern Sidman
Ed. note: This is part 2 and 3 of the series. Click here to read part 1.
Continuing his tour into the heart of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Mr. Luria guided the AFSI contingent in to Beit Wittenberg, now owned by Ateret Cohanim. Originally purchased by Moshe Wittenberg in the 1880s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/14/9474</link>
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		<title>Jihad Comes to Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
Considering Egypt&#8217;s presidential elections take place later this month, last weekend&#8217;s Islamist clash with the military could not have come at a worse time.
First, the story: due to overall impatience—and rage that the Salafi presidential candidate, Abu Ismail, was disqualified (several secular candidates were also disqualified)—emboldened Islamists began to gather around the Defense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/13/9471</link>
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		<title>The Obama Government Backs the Atrocity-Producing Forces So How Will it Stop Atrocities?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
The port of Oktyabrsk is situated on the left bank of the Bug River, 58 km. north of the entry to the Black Sea. Close to the city of Nikolayev, this anonymous Ukrainian port could not seem further from the strife-torn Middle East.
Yet in the last year, Oktyabrsk has played a key role [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/13/9466</link>
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		<title>The Catastrophe Called Nakba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sam Sokol*
&#8220;All of the world knows what happened here in 1948,&#8217; Daoud Abu Lebdeh says, while leaning against a table in a coffee shop on the Hebrew University&#8217;s Mount Scopus campus.
&#8220;The Israeli soldiers or the Israeli militias like the Hagana, Kahane, the Irgun and Lehi came here and they [kicked] the people outside from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/11/9463</link>
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		<title>EMC, the storage giant, intensifies Israel operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Yoram Ettinger
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #161, May 11, 2012
1.  The $58BN MA-based EMC acquired Israel’s XtremIO for $430MN, in addition to its existing Israeli R&#038;D center, which employs 750 persons.  EMC intends to expand its Israeli presence, as has been done by Intel (Globes business daily, May 11, 2012).  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/11/9459</link>
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		<title>The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by David J. Rusin*
Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements that BBC policy is shaped by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/10/9456</link>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s 31 Percenters: How Bashar Al-Asad Built Minority Alliances and Countered Minority Foes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Phillip Smyth
As the Syrian revolution against Bashar al-Asad’s rule enters its first year, Asad appears to have a good command over Syria’s large and fractious minority community. Three of the most prominent minority groups include the Christians, Druze, and Kurds. Asad’s control of these groups was not happenstance but the result of a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/10/9440</link>
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		<title>House Appropriators Nix Obama Request for Less Enforcement Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Janice Kephart, CIS.org
On Wednesday, May 9, House appropriators mark up their FY 2013 Subcommittee Draft Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The budget refuses the Obama administration requests to lower funding for enforcement activity on and inside the border, and denies a reorganization that would have destroyed the independence of arguably the most important border program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/09/9437</link>
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		<title>The Crony System That Makes Israelis Poorer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Doron*
Last summer&#8217;s peaceful mass demonstrations in Israel protested economic hardships resulting from excessive government interference in the economy.
The protests were ignited by Izhak Elrov, a young religious father who started a Facebook page calling for the boycott of one consumer item, cottage cheese, which was selling in Israel for double what it cost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/09/9434</link>
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		<title>Canadian Islamic schools teaching hatred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Gerofsky
As a member of The Never Again Group, as a former teacher and as a proud citizen of Canada I am appalled by the intolerance, hate, and incitement going on in Toronto&#8217;s East End Madrassah and in other Islamic &#8220;schools&#8221; and mosques throughout Canada.
Story continues below&#8230;
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There is a growing trend by officialdom to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/08/9428</link>
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		<title>Egypt: Ayman Zawahiri&#8217;s Brother Leads Jihadi Protest Against Military</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
According to Egypt&#8217;s Al Ahram, &#8220;Major Egyptian Islamist parties and groups—including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist Calling and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya—have issued calls for a Tahrir Square demonstration on Friday under the banner of &#8216;Saving the revolution.&#8217; … Several non-Islamist revolutionary groups, meanwhile, have expressed their refusal to participate in the event. These groups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/08/9424</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Our brethren are not alone,&#8221; says AFSI members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fern Sidman
Ed. note: This is part 1 of the series. Click here to read part 2 and 3.
As the semi-annual Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) Chizuk Mission to Israel drew to a conclusion on May 1st, the tour participants told the media that, &#8220;Our beloved brethren living on settlements slated to be dismantled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/07/9419</link>
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		<title>LUSH Cosmetics Now Giving &#8220;Charity&#8221; to Anti-Israel Fanatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Join the Boycott
Anti-Israel LUSH Cosmetics is now giving your hard-earned wages to a &#8220;charity&#8221; called Bustan Qaraaqa which actively advocates against Israel and the &#8220;brutality of the military occupation, the Wall and the Settlements.&#8221; This &#8220;charity&#8221; also aims an anti-Semitic jab at Israel commenting that &#8220;Palestine&#8221; is a beautiful country &#8220;despite the vandalism of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/07/9416</link>
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		<title>In Defense of Arizona&#8217;s Immigration Law SB1070</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jan Ting, CIS.org
The Obama administration&#8217;s challenge to the Arizona immigration statute SB1070 is not about its popularity, or whether the statute is wise or unwise policy. Legislatures are permitted to enact laws thought unpopular or unwise by others. And as Chief Justice Roberts observed, and the administration&#8217;s lawyer agreed, the challenge is also not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/04/9413</link>
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		<title>Regime Change in Iran?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Brendan Daly*
There is every reason to believe that the Islamic Republic&#8217;s days are numbered. The current government, lorded over by the religious supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene&#8217;i, and his Guardian Council of aging mullahs, who can overrule any policy change by the pseudo-elected president, seem wildly out of touch with the general populace. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/03/9410</link>
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		<title>One Leader Who Will be Re-elected: Israel Goes to Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
Israel is apparently going to have elections this autumn and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will almost certainly win by a big margin.  Understanding why explains a lot about the country that people think they know the most about but in fact comprehend the least.
According to polls, Netanyahu’s Likud party may go from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/02/9404</link>
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		<title>The Jihadist Roots of the Norway Massacre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Ibrahim*
Anders Breivik, who went on a shooting spree in Norway last year, killing some 70 people, recently confessed his inspiration: al-Qaeda, the jihadists par excellence of the modern world.
According to AFP, &#8220;The gunman behind the Norway massacres said he was inspired by al-Qaida as he took the stand Tuesday [4/17] at his trial…. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/02/9407</link>
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		<title>Chris Christie&#8217;s Islam Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson*
A Quinnipiac poll in April showed Chris Christie the most popular potential Republican vice-presidential candidate, thanks to his budget cuts and standing up to government employee unions. But the governor of New Jersey has a problem, specifically an Islam problem, in the way of his possible ascent to higher office. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/01/9378</link>
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		<title>Terrorist Suspects &#8216;Connected&#8217; to Occupy Cleveland; Occupy Tries to Spin; Violence at Rallies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occupy Cleveland canceled a scheduled rally Tuesday after a group of men connected to the organization were arrested by the FBI. &#8230;
newsnet5.com, Scripps TV Station Group, 5/1/12

These &#8220;group of men&#8221; &#8212; terrorist thugs &#8212; &#8220;&#8230;had planted what were believed to be explosive devices under the Ohio 82 bridge over Cuyahoga Valley National Park as part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2012/05/01/9382</link>
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