Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News British Pol Reaches Out on Climate Change
In a further indication of its willingness to challenge the Bush administration on its home turf, the British government of Tony Blair is pushing its advocacy to combat global warming by reaching out to state and local authorities, the business community and even religious groups in America. While Blair has stuck with the White House…
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News Tehran Arrests Iranian Americans in Echo of ‘Shiraz Dozen’ Affair
Iran’s recent arrest of several Iranian Americans on spying charges is best understood as a repeat performance of the Islamic regime’s imprisonment seven years ago of a group of traditional Jews. In 1999, a dozen Jews from the Iranian city of Shiraz were thrown in jail and indicted for allegedly working for Israel. After an…
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News Study Raises Concern on European Antisemitism
While some Western European governments have made strides in tackling increasingly violent expressions of antisemitism, a number of European nations — notably former Soviet bloc countries — have failed to monitor and prosecute hate crimes, according to a new study released this week by a human rights group. “A few countries — the United Kingdom,…
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News Jewish Quarter Booms — Without Jews
Every few steps along the narrow, winding Al-Amin Street in the heart of the Jewish quarter of Damascus’s old city, a young Yasser Arafat smiles at the rare pedestrian walking by. The posters of the late Palestinian leader, plastered on the grayish street walls, serve as a pointed reminder that Jewish life in Damascus is…
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News With Islamic Militancy Rising, Syria’s Baath Regime Finds Religion
Damascus – While Israel and America rank high on the list of Syria’s enemies, it is the rising tide of militant Islam within the country that ultimately might pose the greatest challenge to the staunchly secular, Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad. For decades, the Assad family and other members of the Alawite minority —…
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News Former CIA Chief Changes Tune on Pollard Story
Did George Tenet threaten to resign as CIA director if Jonathan Pollard were to be released as part of the 1998 Wye River interim peace agreement with Israel? According to news reports at the time, then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had insisted on Pollard’s release, and President Clinton was prepared to go along with it…
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News Dramatic Shifts Unlikely In French Foreign Policy
Officials in Washington and Jerusalem are hailing the election of conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy to be the next president of France; however, the overt joy at Sarkozy’s election, and the rampant speculation that he will adopt a more pro-Israeli and pro-American foreign policy, could be short-lived. “Sarkozy’s priorities are of an internal nature,” said Dominique…
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News Syria Strains Under Exodus of Iraqi Refugees Through Last Open Border
Al Tanf, Iraqi-Syrian Border – On a recent mild spring morning, Tawfiq Mohamed was nervously pacing back and forth in front of a drab office building that bears a large picture of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The former Iraqi police clerk was waiting for his two sisters, who had embarked that morning on the seven-hour…
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