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MIDEAST: Egypt Makes Cultural Clout Count
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO - Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian literature, music, film and television.
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MIDEAST: Demolishing Hope for Peace
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SUR BAHER, Occupied East Jerusalem - "We knew something bad was about to happen when we saw the roadblocks being thrown up, and police everywhere. It soon came down the grapevine - the Israelis were demolishing more houses."
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US-MIDEAST: J Street Meet Draws Foreign Policy Heavyweights
By Eli Clifton*
WASHINGTON - J Street, the relatively new "pro-Israel, pro-Peace" advocacy group, exceeded expectations for its inaugural conference here in Washington with over 1,500 participants attending the four-day event.
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MIDEAST: 'It's the Occupation, Stupid'
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself embattled on several fronts as he tries - hitherto unsuccessfully - to ward off the enormous international pressure on Israel unleashed by the Goldstone report for its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza earlier this year.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
By Mel Frykberg
EAST JERUSALEM - Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating non-violent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community.
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MIDEAST: Is Jerusalem Burning?
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Déjà vu on one of the world's most volatile religious sites, a site deeply revered by both Muslims and Jews.
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POLITICS-US: Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - StandWithUs - an "organization that ensures that Israel's side of the story is told" - has become increasingly aggressive in challenging the "pro-Israel" credentials of moderate Jewish-American groups, going so far as to suggest that receiving money from Arab donors and supporters of Human Rights Watch undermines a group's commitment to Israel and peace.
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MIDEAST: Rabbis Take on Settlers
By Mel Frykberg
AWARTA, West Bank - Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
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FILM: The Man Is Steel, the Tank Is Only Iron
By Matteo Fracassi
NEW YORK - "War is not made by heroes or Hollywood studs," says director Samuel Maoz. "War is mostly made by young and inexperienced guys. Children that are sent to go after and kill the ones they used to play with. That's what this really is about."
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RIGHTS-EGYPT: Invoking Religion Against Liberals
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Self-appointed guardians of public morality are invoking an ancient instrument of Islamic jurisprudence against those whose ideas they deem immoral or heretical - or simply to gain fame.
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POLITICS: U.N. Body Backs War Crimes Charges on Israel, Hamas
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) approved a resolution Friday endorsing war crimes charges against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as spelled out in a report by a four-member international fact-finding mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone.
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POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A U.S. decision to stall Security Council action against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for war crimes during the 22-day conflict in Gaza last December has come under heavy fire both from inside and outside the United Nations.
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MIDEAST: Turkey-Israel Rift Good for Palestine
Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Turkey's cooling relationship with Israel comes in tandem with its improving relations with the Arab and Muslim world, and this development is expected to impact positively on Palestinian politics.
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In addition to the historically unbridgeable divide between Israel and the Palestinians, a split is broadening between the militant Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah groups on the Palestinian side. Israel faces its own internal disagreements on such issues as Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. And with every opening divide, trouble in the region escalates. IPS correspondents provide the big-picture perspective on the Middle East.