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Author: 'Mitt Is Confused' on Palestine and Culture - Businessweek Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:48:22 GMT

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Author: 'Mitt Is Confused' on Palestine and Culture
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As reported today in the New York Times, Mitt Romney offended Palestinian leaders on Monday with his suggestion that cultural differences explain why Israelis are more economically successful than Palestinians. In trying to tamp down the controversy, ...
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The Romney Foreign Tour - Wall Street Journal Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:15:40 GMT

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The Romney Foreign Tour
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Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on Mitt Romney's remark that culture explains Israel's economic success and Palestine's poverty. Photos: Associated Press. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel—the seat of its government, the home of its ...
Homeward bound: Did Romney get anything out of his European tour?ABC News
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Palestinian youth threaten protests against EU - Ma'an News Agency Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:35:21 GMT

Ma'an News Agency
Palestinian youth threaten protests against EU
Ma'an News Agency
"Barring meaningful action on the above, the Palestinian youth movement will organize to protest the latest manifestation of EU complicity and to challenge its presence and operations in Palestine," the group said. The statement came a week after the ...
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Australia to Investigate Israeli Treatment of Palestinian ChildrenInternational Middle East Media Center
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What killed Yasser Arafat? France could find the truth - The Guardian Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:11:04 GMT

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What killed Yasser Arafat? France could find the truth
The Guardian
The Palestinian president had arrived at the Percy Military hospital on 29 October 2004, following his unexplained deterioration weeks earlier. He fell into a coma and took his last breath there on 11 November the same year. In our film, we interviewed ...
Arafat widow requests probe into poison allegationsFRANCE 24
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Palestinian Christians swept aside as Israel rewrites history - The National Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:02:27 GMT

Palestinian Christians swept aside as Israel rewrites history
The National
He vanquished a dragon, saved a princess and passed into myth. What popular culture knows about St George (or Georgius, in Latin) pretty much begins and ends with the children's fairy tale, but there is a historical figure underneath that legend. Born ...

Romney faces Palestinian criticism for Jerusalem remarks as he heads to Poland - Washington Post Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:00:59 GMT

Romney faces Palestinian criticism for Jerusalem remarks as he heads to Poland
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JERUSALEM — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angered Palestinian leaders on Monday when he suggested here that the Israeli economy has outpaced that of the Palestinian territories in part because of advantages of “culture.” Palestinians ...

Romney Gaffe on Palestine is an Affront to Reality - PolicyMic Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:21:53 GMT

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Romney Gaffe on Palestine is an Affront to Reality
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A senior aide to the Palestinian president pointed out why: "It is a racist statement and this man doesn't realize that the Palestinian economy cannot reach its potential because there is an Israeli occupation." Unfortunately, looking at U.S. policies ...

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Palestine Today 07 31 2012 - International Middle East Media Center Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:31 GMT

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Palestine Today 07 31 2012
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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday July 31, 2012. Israel announces plans to convert Al-Aqsa into a park for Israelis and tourists and conducts raids throughout the West Bank ...
Another settler incursion at Al-Aqsa MosqueMiddle East Monitor
Al-Khatib: Israeli Occupation Decides to Convert Al-Aqsa into Public Parks and ...Palestine News Network
Committee Warns against Turning Al-Aqsa Yards into Public ParkWAFA - Palestine News Agency

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Palestine - Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the law - On Line opinion Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:45:54 GMT

Palestine - Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the law
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The Levy Commission's resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel's entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it ...

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Axes of power and alliances to be redrawn - gulfnews.com Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:00:21 GMT

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Axes of power and alliances to be redrawn
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Palestinian leaders, organisations and officials were generally silent at the start of Syria's revolution, mainly out of concern for the fate of the half million Palestinian refugees in the country. However, that has now changed and not in President ...
The Perilous Position of Syria's Palestinian RefugeesMidEastPosts

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