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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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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expatriate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></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>Déjà vu</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/deja-vu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resolution 362]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Policy Toward Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let it be clearly understood—there is no authority to wage war without Congress passing a declaration of war. A UN or similarly alternative resolution authorizing the use of force, even if it were to come, cannot replace the legal process for the United States going to war as precisely defined in the Constitution. Only tyrants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=113&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Thing Leads to Another: Conflict and Linkage in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/one-thing-leads-to-another-conflict-and-linkage-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Kramer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East Conflicts]]></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>Toward an American Foreign Policy in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/toward-an-american-foreign-policy-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tau2006</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Foreign Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Foreign Policy

In determining the role foreign policy plays with respect to the United States and the Middle East one must first briefly define the proper role of the American government in conducting foreign policy. One should also note that any cursory glance of the foreign policy emanating from the United States—past or present—should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=111&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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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Wahsh: The monster of commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Special Relationship]]></category>

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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>Oil: Are we about to kick the habit?</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/oil-are-we-about-to-kick-the-habit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[T’nah Al’Bakur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that the first step towards recovery from an addiction is to admit that you have a problem. I think that oil consumers have reached that point. I came to this realization today upon reading an article in the Wall Street Journal which likened the decade’s spike in oil to the DotCom bubble of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=109&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>
		<category><![CDATA[British Academics]]></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>Facts, Truth and Journalism in the Arab World</title>
		<link>http://danceswithcamels.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/facts-truth-and-journalism-in-the-arab-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Schott-Gun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsibiity of the Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across an interesting article in the New York Times entitled ‘Misreading the Arab media.’ The gist of the article is that the U.S. has a skewed vision of Arab media. Included in the article is a graphic containing information about the opinions of Arab journalists. It is enlightening, and for the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danceswithcamels.wordpress.com&blog=2888232&post=106&subd=danceswithcamels&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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