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	<title>Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place</title>
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	<description>essays on politics, culture and ideas including Middle East peace, world music, children, family and the outdoors.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bush Should Become President&#8230;of Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/14/bush-should-become-presidentof-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mideast Peace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics &#038; Society]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[shmuel-rosner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shmuel Rosner is always good for some amusement (unintended of course).  And reader Eran points to today&#8217;s column as a special laugher about George Bush&#8217;s Half Done (more accurately &#8220;half-baked&#8221;) presidency.  The worshipful prose is unbelievable considering how universally condemned the Bush presidency has become (most polls show him at or near his [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bush Should Become President&#8230;of Israel", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/14/bush-should-become-presidentof-israel/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Condi Fantasy Show&#8217;s Ratings Tank</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/13/condi-fantasy-shows-ratings-tank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 03:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Condi Middle East fantasy show continues to flounder in the ratings.  With such rousing endorsements by its star is it any wonder?
In a taped interview in Washington on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;The Early Show,&#8221; Rice said she remains convinced her upcoming trip to the Middle East with U.S. President  George Bush will push the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Condi Fantasy Show&#8217;s Ratings Tank", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/13/condi-fantasy-shows-ratings-tank/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Adelson Questioned About Olmert Bribery Case, Talansky Lies About Business Interests</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/13/israeli-police-question-adelson-about-olmert-bribery-case-talansky-lies-about-business-interests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/13/israeli-police-question-adelson-about-olmert-bribery-case-talansky-lies-about-business-interests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[olmert bribery investigation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sheldon-adelson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[talansky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haaretz reports today that Israeli police are widening their bribery investigation, questioning gaming magnate and Likud supporter Sheldon Adelson and others about solicitations that Ehud Olmert may have made on behalf of Morris Talansky and his Israeli business interests.  They are attempting to establish a quid pro quo that would explain Talansky&#8217;s cash contributions [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Adelson Questioned About Olmert Bribery Case, Talansky Lies About Business Interests", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/13/israeli-police-question-adelson-about-olmert-bribery-case-talansky-lies-about-business-interests/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Luttwak: Islamists Will Kill Obama as Muslim Apostate</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/12/luttwak-islamists-will-kill-obama-as-muslim-apostate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast Peace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ahmed yousef]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[edward luttwak]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[islamists may assassinate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[obama muslim]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[president apostate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Luttwak, one of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s original Cold Warriors, has channeled Daniel Pipes in the N.Y. Times Op-Ed section today, claiming preposterously that a President Obama will be in danger because Islamists will view his as a Muslim apostate and try to kill him.
I&#8217;ve already written about this stupid line of argument when Pipes advanced [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Luttwak: Islamists Will Kill Obama as Muslim Apostate", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/12/luttwak-islamists-will-kill-obama-as-muslim-apostate/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Osama Endorses McCain</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/11/osama-endorses-mccain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 07:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[obama smear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[osama-bin-laden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News reports from Pakistan claim a new audiotape from Osama bin Laden speaks favorably about a McCain presidency:
Inshallah, we&#8217;re looking forward to four more years of Bush policies with this McCain fellow.  George Bush has been good for us and we think McCain could be even better.  Imagine, he might even widen the war against [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Osama Endorses McCain", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/11/osama-endorses-mccain/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Malley Talked to Hamas, Oh My!</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/10/malley-talked-to-hamas-oh-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 05:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[malley met hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mccain smears]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[randy scheunemann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lions and tigers &#38; Hamas, oh my!&#8211;to paraphrase Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.  It appears that the right-wing extremists running John McCain&#8217;s national security team have outed Rob Malley because he&#8211;get this&#8211;actually spoke to Hamas:
One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Malley Talked to Hamas, Oh My!", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/10/malley-talked-to-hamas-oh-my/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain: Hamas Has a Friend in Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/10/mccain-hamas-has-a-friend-in-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/10/mccain-hamas-has-a-friend-in-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 09:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast Peace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics &#038; Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ahmed yousef]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hamas supports obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mccain smear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain has decided: let the smears begin.  And so campaign silly season has arrived with a vengeance.  It seems a Hamas spokesperson told a WABC interviewer that Obama would be as a good a president as John Kennedy.  That was enough for McCain to let the fur fly:
Senator John McCain&#8230;portrayed the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "McCain: Hamas Has a Friend in Obama", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/10/mccain-hamas-has-a-friend-in-obama/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Hezbollah&#8217;s Coup &#8216;On the Ground&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/hezbollahs-coup-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast Peace]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[abba eban]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hezbollah takes over beirut]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[israel syria peace negotiations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In taking over much of Beirut (including Sunni neighborhoods formerly controlled by pro-government forces), Hezbollah has engineered what I call a &#8220;coup on the ground.&#8221;  It hasn&#8217;t touched the levers of power or elected government.  But by controlling much of the territory of the capital city it has taken physical control of almost [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hezbollah&#8217;s Coup &#8216;On the Ground&#8217;", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/hezbollahs-coup-on-the-ground/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Olmert Chief Witness Married to Deputy Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/olmert-chief-witness-married-to-deputy-attorney-general/</link>
		<comments>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/olmert-chief-witness-married-to-deputy-attorney-general/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Attorney Messers testimony complicates matters for PM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[davida lachman messer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[olmert bribery case]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[uri messer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you could ever find a stranger conflict of interest in Israeli law and politics.  Ehud Olmert&#8217;s former law partner and business associate, Uri Messer, is presently singing to Israeli police and the attorney general about his involvement in the funds Morris Talansky raised for Olmert.  From what I&#8217;ve read, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Olmert Chief Witness Married to Deputy Attorney General", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/olmert-chief-witness-married-to-deputy-attorney-general/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Fosella&#8217;s Double Life&#8211;Why Do Republicans Have All the Fun?</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/fosellas-double-life-why-do-republicans-have-all-the-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/fosellas-double-life-why-do-republicans-have-all-the-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[congressional democrats]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[extramarital affair]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sex scandal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vito fosella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats may be on top of the heap politically, but when it comes to vice, Republicans have the market cornered.  First, there was Jack Abramoff showering Republicans with Super Bowl tickets and free meals at his Kosher restaurant. Then there was Mark Foley IM&#8217;ing the boys a good time.  Now, there&#8217;s Vito [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fosella&#8217;s Double Life&#8211;Why Do Republicans Have All the Fun?", url: "http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/05/09/fosellas-double-life-why-do-republicans-have-all-the-fun/" });</script>]]></description>
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