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	<title>DancesWithCamels &#187; Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary</title>
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		<title>No Choice but a Bad Choice: Israel’s Quandary in Gaza, Unachievable Strategic Objectives</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/no-choice-but-a-bad-choice-israel%e2%80%99s-quandary-in-gaza-unachievable-strategic-objectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seemingly, Israel is, at most, attempting to topple the Hamas government in Gaza and, at the very least, punishing them severely for not going away, even while Israel is certainly not interested in a long-term presence in the strip.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=119&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years in Zion</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/two-years-in-zion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 1 marked my two year anniversary of living in Israel and so I’d like to dedicate this post to some random musings about the place and my time here. Tel Aviv is where I’ve spent the brunt of my time and over the years and the city has offered me some real life knowledge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=117&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the Sake of Israel?: U.S. policy in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/for-the-sake-of-israel-us-policy-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is in response to an article penned by Justin Raimondo on antiwar.com. While I don’t oppose the position the author advocates (defeating legislation that amounts to a declaration of war with Iran), I find the manner in which he frames the discussion to be problematic. While the article is peppered with disclaimers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=114&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Thing Leads to Another: Conflict and Linkage in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[linkage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Kramer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Jordan about a month ago some friends and I were sitting around chatting politics when one Jordanian put it to me. Come on man, he asked, is not the resolution to the Israeli-Arab conflict the ultimate fix for the region? His question suggested that he ascribed to a commonly held belief in linkage. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=112&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S.-Israeli Relationship: Is it Strategic? Part II</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/the-us-israeli-relationship-is-it-strategic-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post on this issue proved somewhat controversial, unsubstantiated for some and downright ludicrous for others. The topic is difficult due to the fact that it is an emotive issue and many approach the subject with strong pre-conceived notions about the appropriateness of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and Israel’s overall contribution to U.S. strategic interests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=110&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Bullshit from Some British Bulldogs</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/more-bullshit-from-some-british-bulldogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academic Boycott of Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote a commentary about the efforts of academics in Britain to boycott Israeli academics (view article). It seems that some in the U.K. have not been discouraged to give up this absurd campaign as the University and College Union of Britain (UCU) has again adopted anti-Israel measures in their most recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=108&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace and U.S. Involvement in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/peace-and-us-involvement-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 22:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Kurtzer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of National Security Studies in Israel was the venue of a fascinating round table last evening. The panel featured three able, experienced and truly erudite individuals: Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli Ambassador to Israel and chief negotiator of Syrian-Israeli peace talks in the early 1990s, Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator for the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=105&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the radar: Syrian-Israeli Peace</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/back-on-the-radar-syrian-israeli-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[










With all these rumors of peace agreements, diplomacy, and bargaining I’m beginning to think I’m not in the Middle  East—where are the wars, the rhetorical bombast and the chest thumping with which we have become accustomed? I commented on Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations a while back but today Haaretz broke some interesting stories that released [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=103&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Egyptian Mediation</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/exploring-egyptian-mediation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt in coordination with the Saudis began attempting to arrange meetings between Hamas and Fatah officials in Cairo in December shortly following Annapolis. At first efforts appeared fruitless with Hamas claiming Abbas established outlandish preconditions for talks while Abbas wanted to see Hamas actions in Gaza rescinded. On January 23 Hamas breached the border between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=102&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel 60 Palestine 0</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/israel-60-palestine-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Today Israel will be celebrating its 60th year of independence while the Palestinians will be commemorating the 60th year of the nakba, the catastrophe, which translates into 0 years of statehood. Yeah, the statehood tally looks like the score of a lopsided peewee football game but this particular match may only be entering the third [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=96&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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