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Standard of living for Arabs in Israel in a ‘different league’

editor 5 May 2013

By Israel Today Staff.. Continuing with the theme of debunking accusations that Israel imposes institutional racism anapartheid on the Arabs of the region is a story by the AFP (*) on a senior Bedouin tracker in the Israeli army. Lt.-Col. Magdi Mazarib, the highest ranking Israeli Bedouin army tracker, is featured in the story. He tells the news agency that compared with neighboring countries, the status and position of Arabs in Israel “is better…It’s a different league.” (more…)

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Trial Offers Rare Look at Work of Hezbollah in Europe

editor 28 February 2013

By Nicholas Kulish.. LIMASSOL, Cyprus — In a little-noticed trial in a small courtroom here on Wednesday (February 20, 2013), a 24-year-old man provided a rare look inside a covert global war between Israel and Iran, admitting that he is an operative of the militant group Hezbollah, for which he acted as a courier in Europe and staked out locations in this port city that Israelis were known to frequent. (more…)

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Purim, Obama and the Jews

editor 25 February 2013

By David Lazarus.. Once again, another inexplicable, perhaps even divine spin of events, will bring President Obama to Israel around Purim. Some see this is an opportunity for Obama to press for a renewed peace initiative on the newly elected Knesset. Others, a politicized Obama trying to get himself into the spotlight for some lame foreign policy legacy. (more…)

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How rise in Islamic fundamentalism affects Egyptian Copts and Lebanese Maronites

editor 2 October 2012

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By Michael Koenig.. This essay will analyse how the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East since the early 1970s has impacted upon Egyptian Copts and Lebanese Maronites. First of all, the overall situation of both communities and why they supported nationalism will be explained, while results of nationalist policies and their impact on the last decades will be shown. Afterwards, the specific situations and developments of Maronites and Copts will be illustrated through highlighting the national modernization project and the following alternative Islamic fundamentalist movements in Egypt and Lebanon. (more…)

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“Fifty thousand missiles – that’s more than most countries have!”

editor 30 August 2012

By David Pileggi.. This is how the former Israeli intelligence officer, Miri Eisin, commented on the size of Hezbollah’s massive (Iranian supplied) arsenal. Eisin was giving us (a group of tour guides) an intensive study day of the political and military realities of Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. (more…)

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