Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Syrian Dissidents See Prospects Killed by Bloodbath in Iraq
Damascus — When Syrians head to the polls this week to elect a new parliament, Iraq will be on their minds — but not in the way that the Bush administration envisioned four years ago, when it held high hopes that toppling Saddam Hussein would set off a democratic domino effect that would unseat the…
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News Detente Is the Talk of Town In Damascus
Damascus — While Republicans and Democrats in Washington trade blows over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria last week, officials and pundits in this ancient capital describe the political feuding as a distraction from a more important truth. From their viewpoint, Pelosi’s visit was not a freelance bid for American-Syrian thaw but rather the…
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News After Longterm Arab Boycott, Coke Now the Target of Zionist Group’s Protest
For decades, the Arab world blackballed Coca-Cola over the company’s decision to enter the Israeli marketplace. Now, the oldest Zionist organization in the United States is calling for a boycott of the beverage maker. The Zionist Organization of America is accusing Coca-Cola of “antisemitic and immoral conduct” regarding a bottling facility in Egypt that the…
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News Ex-Pentagon Official Unveils Cyber Weapon In Fight To Restore Reputation: DougFeith.com
A prominent former Pentagon official and advocate of the Iraq War has launched a Web site to rebut the waves of criticism leveled against him for several years. Douglas Feith, who was under secretary of defense for policy until July 2005, is offering a spirited defense against allegations that, during the buildup to the American…
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News Syrian Envoy Rips U.S. and Israel for Rejecting Overtures From Damascus
Washington — Bemoaning what he described as an Israeli lack of vision and the Bush administration’s ideological rigidity, the Syrian ambassador to the United States strongly criticized Washington and Jerusalem last week for rejecting repeated Syrian proposals to help stabilize the Middle East. “I must confess, we are extremely disappointed with the lack of response…
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News U.S. Losing Court Battles in War on Terror
A series of recent verdicts favoring Palestinian defendants in high-profile terrorist cases are raising questions about the American government’s strategy in prosecuting supporters of militant groups. Earlier this month, a Chicago jury acquitted Mohammed Salah and Abdelhalim Ashqar of being part of a racketeering conspiracy to finance and support Hamas. The two men faced life…
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News Iranian Scientist’s Death Stirs Talk of an Atomic ‘Whodunit’
The escalating confrontation between Iran and the West has produced an atomic “whodunit,” with fingers pointing across the Middle East. Last month, Iran reported the death of Ardeshir Hassanpour, 44, one of the country’s leading nuclear scientists. The news fueled a wave of rumors and conspiracy theories in cyberspace. Radio Farda, which is funded by…
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News Israeli Rightist Warns That Bush’s Iraq Policy Could Hurt Effort To Combat Iran
Efraim “Effi” Eitam, a leader of Israel’s right-wing Orthodox Zionist camp, is criticizing President Bush’s Iraq policy, saying it could end up undermining efforts to confront Iran. Eitam, who sits on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and is the leader of the Renewed National Religious Zionist party, spent three days last week in…
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