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		<title>Elderly Israeli killed in Jerusalem terror stabbing</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/elderly-israeli-killed-in-jerusalem-terror-stabbing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he tried to escape the scene, the terrorist stopped long enough to plunge his knife into the chest of an elderly pedestrian. Emergency resuscitation efforts by ambulance crews failed.
Despite his own wounds, the police officer managed to shoot the attacker several times. Another passerby then overpowered the injured terrorist.   &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
While there is no doubt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8892&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Revealed as owner of South Sudan bound weapons ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration documents gathered by BBC included the confirmation that the ship hijacked by Somalia pirates belonged to a Jewish investor residing in the self proclaimed state of Israel, and not a Ukrainian ship&#8230;
For many years, the Khartoum based Sudan government accused Israel of supplying arms and providing training to South Sudan rebels. Kenya is now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8875&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with being a Muslim &#8212; It&#8217;s wrong to think so</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/theres-nothing-wrong-with-being-a-muslim-its-wrong-to-think-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Kudos to McCain for correcting a false statement. Barack Obama is indeed, not an Arab. That’s where my praise ends, and my issue begins. His ‘answer’ to this misguided woman made it sound like there’s a difference between being an Arab and being a decent family man… citizen. The two are not mutually exclusive. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8850&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arab media report: Israel ready to comply with Hamas demands</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/arab-media-report-israel-ready-to-comply-with-hamas-demands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amos Gilad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Saudi Arabian newspaper Ukaz, the top Israeli negotiator, Amos Gilad, informed an unnamed Palestinian source that Israel is ready to free all of the prisoners demanded by the Hamas party in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Gilad&#8217;s office denied the report.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Under Bush, US Influence in Latin America is Receding Before High Tide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has also long served as chief educator to Latin America&#8217;s elite. Correa is among its presidents with a U.S. graduate degree &#8211; though that didn&#8217;t stop him from accusing the CIA of infiltrating his military, or refusing to renew a lease for U.S. counterdrug missions to fly out of Ecuador.
With the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8536&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extremists attack several Arab homes in Akka; more Israeli right wingers are flocking into the city</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Extremist Jewish rioters continued their attacks against Arab homes and property in Akka, especially in the Eastern neighborhood. Eyewitnesses reported that the attack was more violent than yesterday and that the mobs are surrounding an Arab home.



Dozens of Arab residents of Akka warned that hundreds of Jewish residents from Akka and different parts of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8534&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating criminality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aluf Ben Ahed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He&#8217;s the man who has only done good deeds&#8230; He&#8217;s the person who is famed for cutting off Palestinians&#8217; heads with a Japanese knife&#8230; He&#8217;s the man who was born with a knife between his teeth&#8230; He&#8217;s the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan!&#8221; The hall thundered with applause when Rozin announced Dagan as man of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8510&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, Arab-Muslim world in American electoral speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marginalisation of Islam and Muslims has been spreading industry in the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks. It lives on the relative ignorance of the American people in international issues and their sometimes strange relationship to the otherness, this ambivalent and complex relation with the other.
Among Republicans, this policy of fear is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8463&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptians Challenge BBC Al-Qaida Poll Result</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite this evidence, Egyptians simply are not buying it. Many here argue that these surveys often skew actual evidence to the contrary.
&#8220;Egyptians do not understand what al-Qaida truly is,&#8221; began a freelance journalist who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, &#8220;so when someone asks people here how they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8089&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Arts of the Islamic World&#8217; at Asian Art Museum in San Francisco</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within a century of the prophet Muhammad&#8217;s death in AD 632, Islam had spread from its Arabian homeland to a wide swath, from Spain in the west to Pakistan in the east. The art that resulted in these places blended local traditions with the strictures of the faith. The hadith, or sayings of the prophet, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7975&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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