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… of fury once confined first by Ottoman rule and then by US dominance in the region. The threat to Arab nations and the West that ensued is the same as that led by the Ottomans: the spread of a radical Islamic caliphate based on religion, not country. In Iran, this is credo is ch...

…been achieved by 1955 2 . This year, a look at something just as worrying in the long run as the fiscal problems of the West: the search for energy solutions. This journey has been fraught with similarly quixotic dead ends, fairy tales and blunders ignoring economic (and thermody...

…'s future depends on the Israeli authorities’ willingness to allow for the construction of access roads in "Area C," or West Bank territory under the direct control of Israel. The sole existing route into the city only exists because the Israeli government, after years of bureauc...

…perience of how China is developing as well as the chance to record reactions from the outside world, especially in the West, toward the nation’s growth and changes. He was at the Great Hall of the People to hear General Secretary Xi Jinping deliver a report to the 19th National...

…ry – that decorates its interior. While the majority of Frieze Week events take place in grandiose settings in London’s West End, a couple of contrasting fairs are capitalising on sites in the city’s East End. The Future Can Wait (until October 17; www.thefuturecanwait.com), an a...

…e Sunni Muslim-led Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Morocco and the other main Palestinian faction, Fatah. The Saudi camp is pro-Western and leans toward tolerating the state of Israel. The Iranian grouping thrives on its reputation in the region as a scrappy "resistance" camp, defiantly...

on the main West Bank and Gaza towns and refugee camps. We also imposed a curfew on Kiryat Arba and, for the first time, were given the authority to use administrative detention orders not just against Palestinians, but specific Jewish settlers. We arrested about a half-dozen lea...

…alist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in the small group on whom Rabin relied fo...

…he whole Sinai Desert, up to the edge of the Suez Canal. The entire Golan. The ancient lands of Judaea and Samaria: the West Bank. And the reunited capital city of Jerusalem. Suddenly, we had a sense that we could breathe. Wander, explore. Few of my classmates were religiously o...

…rael cannot be at once Jewish and democratic if it permanently disenfranchises millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. While I disagreed with his proposed resolution, I agree that the occupation is untenable and I found the hounding of Judt, who died last year of Lou...

…hat waging a form of low-intensity warfare against a neighbor was justified, Putin has stepped up efforts to depict the West as antagonistic to Russian interests, launched a campaign to label those responsible for Ukraine's Maidan uprising as fascists, driven home the idea that...

… ago, provided the seeds for the Japanese school of “instant illumination,” known as Rinzai Zen. Rinzai is famed in the west for asking students to grapple with koans, the sorts of puzzles - “What was your face before your were born?” or “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”...

…— by the way, and these are people that have all gone to Yale, and Harvard, they went to the finest institutions in the West. They should have known better. And by the way: It’s all the institutions of the accounting firms, the law firms, the investment banks, the consulting fir...

…el’s three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Palestinians and the growing number of Jewish settlers. Our main brief was to pr...

… he just might rock our world. Quran is helping to coordinate a raft of Palestinian youth organizations—located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria—all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped p...