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We begin that last one, via the Hill: Obama, GOP tiptoe on war authorization President Obama agreed during a meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday to begin preparing draft language for legislation that would authorize the use of military force...

Image from VIDEO EzhoFF Band - United States - youtube.com Via IK on Facebook PUBLIC DIPLOMACY State Dept: Egypt's Jailing of Journalists a 'Detour on the Path to Democracy' - Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard: "In spite of a string of worrisome human...

From Ian: Prof. Phyllis Chesler: Israel, the country US liberal Jews love to criticize As someone who has long been on record as both a feminist and a Zionist, I know how hard it is to maintain both loyalties. Increasingly, what passes for both left...

Yusuf Qaradawi, the octogenarian and putative senior cleric of the international Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun), has reached an age where he is not now expected to play a significant role in what has become a cloudy Ikhwan future. Among those...

Prisoners / Court actions Palestinian child with leukemia medically neglected in Israeli prison RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 13 Feb — The medical condition of 15-year-old Ahmad al-Khadour has seriously deteriorated while being held in Israel’s Ofer detention center...