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	<title>Islamic Alert &#187; Middle East Forum</title>
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	<description>A Politically Incorrect Look at Islam Today</description>
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		<title>The Costs of Relying on Aging Dictators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost as soon as it started, the democratization agenda that the Bush administration hoped would be the lodestar of its post 9-11 foreign policy has been all but shelved. The insurgency and sectarian bloodshed in Iraq, the regional threat posed by an expansionist Iran, and the Palestinian civil war have combined to help resurrect the U.S. embrace of regional stability as a foreign policy priority and have convinced President George W. Bush to reduce his emphasis on transformative diplomacy.]]></description>
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		<title>Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use by Westerners of the word hudna highlights an anomaly. Whenever journalists, diplomats, or commentators covering the Middle East use a non-English word, it will almost always be Arabic or perhaps Persian; seldom do they use any Hebrew words. Never has a U.S. or British newspaper, for example, used the Hebrew word for cease-fire (hafsakat esh). This is odd as Israel is the other side to these cease-fires.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2007, eighty-seven countries and international organizations met in Paris and pledged to provide $7.4 billion over three years to the Palestinian Authority[1] (PA), an amount far in excess of any previous level of U.S. or European aid to the Palestinians. The conference participants justified the aid as a means of providing "immediate support to the entire Palestinian population,"[2]]]></description>
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		<title>European Converts to Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conversion to Islam among native Europeans is on the rise. Many converts live at peace within their native societies; some convert only for marriage, and reject neither contemporary culture nor Europe's Judeo-Christian values. A minority, however, embraces radical interpretations of Islam and can pose a security risk. The involvement of Muslim converts in recent terrorist attacks has raised concern in Europe about these "converts to terrorism."]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the Chechen Emirate?</title>
		<link>http://www.meforum.org/article/1931</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chechnya has been at war with Russia for generations. By 1999, when the second Chechen war broke out, two resistance groups had emerged: nationalists and jihadists.]]></description>
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		<title>An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.meforum.org/article/1932</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern part of the country. In an almost unprecedented fashion, the Israeli government and military refused to confirm the involvement of Israeli aircraft, the target, or the raid's success, with the first report of the operation coming from Damascus.[1]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reader of Kurdish Identity, published in 2007, will find himself reading such timely insights as former State Department Iraq coordinator Francis Ricciardone explaining that, "Of course, we have no relations at all with [Baghdad]," and former deputy assistant secretary of state David Mack writing that he understands both Kurdish aspirations and "the potential danger that a ruthless regime in Baghdad poses," as though Saddam Hussein's regime had not ceased to exist in 2003.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jurists in most Muslim countries continue in their rulings to hew to antiquated formulations of Islam, enforcing a crippling separation of the Muslim world from modern, globalized states that rely on secular law to guide their relations with the outside world.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dramatic polarization of American politics has led leftist critics of the Bush administration to assume that Iran's Islamic Republic cannot be all that bad if President George W. Bush describes it as part of an "axis of evil."]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Londonistan</title>
		<link>http://www.meforum.org/article/1964</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preface by Melanie Phillips In February 2008, Gwyn Prins, a professor at the London School of Economics, and Robert Salisbury, the marquess of Salisbury and a privy counselor, published a breakthrough essay in the RUSI Journal on the incongruity between current British defense discourse and the threat posed by radical Islam.[1]]]></description>
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