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January 16, 2009
Miracles and Plane Crashes
What accounts for plane crash survivability? Pilot skills, better aircraft features or competent passengers?
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January 15, 2009
Words and Deeds in Ankara and Tehran
How Turkey, Iran and Jordan are reacting to the conflict in Gaza.
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January 13, 2009
The Ace in Obama’s Pocket
Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist, says Arabs are hopeful that Barack Obama will be a fair broker in the Middle East.
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January 12, 2009
Why Israelis Remain United
David Newman, a professor of politics in Beersheva, Israel, a city which has been a target of Hamas rockets, explains why there …
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January 12, 2009
The Only Solution
Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland, on how to keep the two-state solution alive in the Mideast.
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January 12, 2009
Taking Risks After the Gaza War
Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, looks at the consequences of Israel-Gaza conflict.
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January 12, 2009
The War So Far
Michael Young, opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, weighs in on the regional implications of Israel's war against Hamas.
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January 7, 2009
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