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Patrick Seale

Immanuel Wallerstein

Blaming the Goldstone Report  
The United States and Israel appear sick as they keep attacking the Goldstone Report as the purported reason for the breakdown of peace negotiations. The reality is that these negotiations have been going nowhere for decades.
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Obama as a Black President  
Barack Obama cannot afford politically to be seen as a "Black president.” But this means that he is constrained from doing and saying things that a White president of the same political views might be willing to do.
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Can Pakistan’s Insurgents be Tamed?  
There seems little doubt that American policy in both Pakistan and Afghanistan needs a radical rethink, before it is too late.
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Norway's Ethical Leadership  
Steps taken by Britain, Sweden, and, especially, Norway are worth noting because they acknowledge the illegitimate nature of several Israeli policies against Palestinians -- and will likely pressure Israel to change those policies.
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Obama’s Afghan ‘Surge’ Needs Political Underpinning  
Obama’s military gamble needs to be coupled with a political strategy. The Afghan problem is a political problem requiring a political solution.
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Addressing Refugeehood Is the Key to Peace  
Every time I see a Jewish friend or a foreign peace mediator, I remind them that the Palestinian exile since 1947-48 is now five or six years longer than the Jewish exile in Babylon in the 6th Century BC -- where the Zionist hope and idea of return to an ancestral Jewish homeland was first born.
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Is Turkey the Only Real Country in the Middle East?  
Why do I marvel at Turkey? Because it is the only country in the Middle East region that acts like a normal, mature country.
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Richard Bulliet
9/28/2009The End of Middle East History
9/28/2009The End of Middle East History
6/17/2009Iran’s Culture Clash
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Nadia Hijab
11/9/2009After Ft. Hood
11/4/2009The Battle Over Palestinian Representation
10/19/2009The Siege Continues
All of Nadia Hijab's articles...

Rami G. Khouri
12/16/2009Blaming the Goldstone Report
12/14/2009Norway's Ethical Leadership
12/9/2009Addressing Refugeehood Is the Key to Peace
All of Rami G. Khouri's articles...

Peter Kwong
6/1/2009June Fourth -- Twenty Years Later
5/11/2009They’re Beating-Up Foreign Journalists
4/27/2009No Reform or Relief in China
All of Peter Kwong's articles...

Patrick Seale
12/14/2009Can Pakistan’s Insurgents be Tamed?
12/11/2009Obama’s Afghan ‘Surge’ Needs Political Underpinning
12/7/2009Obama Must Try Again With Iran
All of Patrick Seale's articles...

Immanuel Wallerstein
12/15/2009Obama as a Black President
12/1/2009Western Europe and Russia -- Coming Together
11/15/2009Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups
All of Immanuel Wallerstein's articles...

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