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		<title>Israel Gets Real on Iran</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/israel-gets-real-on-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The distinction between the apocalyptic rhetoric Israeli leaders use publicly in relation to Iran, and the more pragmatic view they hold among themselves on how to deal with Tehran and its nuclear program, has long been clear to anyone paying very close attention. In short, it’s clear that many of Israel’s key leaders don’t believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8742&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JACKSON ON OBAMA&#8217;S AMERICA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where &#8220;decades of putting Israel&#8217;s interests first&#8221; would end.  Jackson believes that, although &#8220;Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades&#8221; remain strong, they&#8217;ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House&#8230;
&#8220;Barack is determined to repair our relations with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8643&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Camp Rejects Jackson&#8217;s Claim That He Would Diminish &#8216;Zionist&#8217; Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As he has made clear throughout his career and throughout this campaign, Barack Obama has a fundamental commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel relationship &#8230; As president, he will ensure that Israel can defend itself from every threat it faces, stand with Israel in its quest for a secure peace with its neighbors, and use all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8647&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon stability scraps Israel&#8217;s schemes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The United States as well as the Zionist regime are moving towards downfall and neither one has popularity whatsoever in the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;The Zionist regime has no prestige and weight in Asia, America, Latin America as well as Europe,&#8221; he said. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Young U.S. Muslims Shift to Democrats This Election</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/young-us-muslims-shift-to-democrats-this-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pew study shows that older Muslim Americans support the military fight against terrorism, especially in Afghanistan, more often than younger Muslim Americans. Duke professor Jen&#8217;nan Ghazel Read says this divide is normal. Her research shows that the majority of Muslim Americans, who were born in the Middle East or Southeast Asia, still have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8603&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating criminality</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/celebrating-criminality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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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>ABC: NSA agents admit spying on Americans&#8217; private calls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has repeatedly defended its warrantless surveillance of Americans as being directed only against &#8220;people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations.&#8221;
Now two intercept operators who worked for the National Security Agency at Fort Gordon in Georgia have come forward to tell ABC News that isn&#8217;t true.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Khudari deplores Israel for barring doctors from entering Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, strongly denounced Wednesday the IOA for barring a medical delegation from the 1948 occupied lands from entering the Gaza Strip, saying that Israel wants to prevent any efforts to help the Gaza people.
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		<title>Cambodia&#8217;s Muslims as geopolitical pawns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH &#8211; Competition for influence in Cambodia, recently seen as a  																	two-country race between the United States and China, has now seen another  																	deep-pocketed suitor emerge: petrodollar-rich Gulf states.
While Washington has required counter-terrorism cooperation for its assistance,  																	and Beijing has sought greater access to markets, Middle Eastern countries seem  																	keen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8300&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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