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PASSINGS: Carl Smith, Hasib Sabbagh
Carl Smith Country singer had hits in 1950s Carl Smith, 82, a country musician of the 1950s and '60s known for his dynamic voice, died Saturday at his Tennessee home, according to the Williamson Memorial Funeral Home in Franklin, Tenn. Smith had 41...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Health, Johnny Cash, Companies and Corporations, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Was Obama right to accept the Nobel Peace Prize?
Opinion L.A.Chalk this award up as a nakedly political statement, wishful thinking that the president's actions will align with words or some other kind of naivete, but the Norwegian Nobel Committee had its reasons.... -
Now, Obama wins Motor Trend Car of Year Award
Top of the TicketThe Nobel Peace Prize was first. What other premature awards are enroute for the Democratic chief executive?... -
PASSINGS: Moshe Hirsch
Moshe Hirsch
Anti-Zionist, U.S.-born rabbi
Moshe Hirsch, 86, an American-born anti-Zionist rabbi and close associate of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died Sunday in Jerusalem, said Eida Haredit, an umbrella group of anti-Zionist, ultra-...Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamas, Israel, Cults and Sects
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PASSINGS
Stanley Middleton English novelist Stanley Middleton, 89, a prolific novelist who shared the prestigious Booker Prize in 1974, has died of cancer, his family said. Middleton died in Nottingham in central England on July 25, a week short of his 90th...Tags: University of Michigan, Sports, Wesleyan University, Nadine Gordimer, Colleges and Universities
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Fatah militants accept Israeli clemency deal
Times Staff WriterJERUSALEM — Scores of battle-hardened Palestinians signed pledges to renounce violence against Israel and turned in their weapons Sunday, accepting the Israeli government's first collective offer of clemency in 14 years for gunmen listed as wanted...Tags: Ehud Barak, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine
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Will peace cost me my home?
Sixty years ago, my grandparents lived in the beautiful village of Beit Daras, a few kilometers north of Gaza. They were farmers and owned hundreds of acres of land. But in 1948, in the first Arab-Israeli war, many people lost their lives defending...Tags: Ehud Barak, Unrest, Conflicts and War, England, Refugee, Civil Unrest
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Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine
the 39th president of the United States. His newest book is "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," published last month. He is scheduled to sign books Monday at Vroman's in Pasadena.I signed a contract with Simon & Schuster two years ago to write a book about the Middle East, based on my personal observations as the Carter Center monitored three elections in Palestine and on my consultations with Israeli political leaders and peace...Tags: National Government, Jimmy Carter, Diplomacy, Contracts, Civil Rights
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Is this a new Benjamin Netanyahu?
Bibi is back. Unlikely as it seemed after his resounding electoral defeat in 1999, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud Party, has returned triumphantly from the political wilderness and was inaugurated -- for the second time --...Tags: Ehud Barak, Amman (Jordan), Bill Clinton, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Likud
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King Herod's return
WALTER REICH is a professor of international affairs, ethics and human behavior at George Washington University, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.AFTER 2,000 YEARS of indignity and ignominy, Herod the Great has finally gotten his revenge. During their revolt against Roman rule over Judea between AD 66 and 72, Jews who remembered King Herod as a Roman puppet smashed his sarcophagus, which had...Tags: Bill Clinton, Mahmoud Abbas, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Woodrow Wilson, Indigenous People
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'A World of Trouble' by Patrick Tyler
Patrick Tyler is a veteran foreign and Washington correspondent who more recently has applied his formidable reporting skills and narrative gifts to diplomatic history. His latest effort, "A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East -- From...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Television, Bill Clinton, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dennis Ross
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West chooses Fatah, but Palestinians don't
SAREE MAKDISI, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, writes often about the Middle East.IN THE WEST, there's a huge sense of relief. The Hamas-led government that has been causing everyone so much trouble has been isolated in Gaza, and a new government has been appointed in the West Bank by the "moderate," peace-loving Palestinian...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, National Government, Diplomacy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mahmoud Abbas
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