Lies and the War that Has Not Ended
 During the past week, as President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, there was
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Jordan's new ambassador to Israel
 AMMONNEWS - Jordan has not officially named its new ambassador to Israel yet, probably because Jordan does not want to give the position great importance, columnist Maher
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Internet free speech protected in the Middle East?
 There are a number of valuable lessons we Americans can take from this discussion. The most important is that we need to
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Trying to Be Hopeful About Peace
 A few years back when Washington was preparing for the then highly touted Annapolis Peace Conference, I remember
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Invoking Hostility
 If the coherence and integrity of the society is lost when it is needed; one forgets himself and every thing he believes in. Why driving some of the intellectual componen
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An illegitimate president agrees to aimless negotiations
 Since his inauguration as president of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas has backed-down repeatedly from a number of demands, destroying his credibilit
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The Arabs and the Race to Nuclear Hell
 ISTANBUL (IDN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds rather optimistic -- or has chosen to do so: “Recently, we have seen signs of progress on nuclear non-proliferati
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Low expectations from direct peace talks
 THE Palestinians are being dragged, kicking and screaming, to direct negotiations with Israel, a far cry from 20 years ago when the PLO made a historic decision to engage
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Jordanian journalists furious over new cyber crimes law
 AMMAN — Jordanian journalists are up in arms after the government on August 3 passed a temporary law on cyber
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More Jordanians expressing discontent
 AMMONNEWS – Banan Malkawi - In an article in the Washington Post on Friday, Janine Zacharia writes that Jordan is going through a period of “exceptional dourness,” with a
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Provoking war
 Israeli attacks on Gaza and the Lebanese border in recent weeks, together with increasing repression in the West Bank, may suggest a larger offensive is in the offing, wr
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More than Half-Way but Not Full Friends: Israel and Jordan
 This morning I received an email from former Israel Labor Party Deputy Leader and former Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh. It started "To my Muslim friends - Ramadan
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King Wages War Against Celebratory Gunfire
 Jordanian King Abdullah II has decided to personally tackle the issue of festive firing, a common Middle Eastern practice for
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PA lowers the volume of call to prayer so as not to disturb Israeli settlers
 Palestinians across the West Bank noticed it before the facts were revealed in the Israeli media: the volume of the call to prayer (azan) from mosques in the occupied ter
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Food crises and national security
 Many countries are in the grips of a severe food crisis. Perhaps the most telling indication is that around 30 countries recently have experienced mass protests against r
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