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I am writing this post in reference to a post published on the Huffington Post about Martin Kramer last week by MJ Rosenberg titled "Is Harvard professor advocating Palestinian genocide?" We need to move beyond this futile argument and shed light on the real issues that need to be addressed by Harvard.

Harvard should celebrate the saga of Martin Kramer.

The image is like all the others. Two smartly dressed, middle-aged politicians, languidly seated, apparently discussing something of vague significance. It's like all the other images, except for one thing: the two men seated in Damascus on Thursday night were the most influential Shiite politicians on the planet.

Germany's only Jewish Film Festival is in danger of closing down due to lack of funding, the event's founder and director Nicola Galliner said yesterday.
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Next week, Bibi Netanyahu will be celebrating his first (and may it be the last) anniversary of his February 10 election victory.

After one year in office, Bibi's got reasons to be fairly pleased with himself. Security-wise, 2009 was the quietest year in the past decade.

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been my Congressman since he was elected in 2000. Tonight, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The other President from Illinois said "you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Kirk can't fool all the people, but he fooled enough of my district to narrowly win re-election in 2008. Let's hope the people of Illinois wise up and elect the Democratic candidate, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.

"Already-accredited universities don't want another institution coming along and taking their funding," says school's chancellor.

Protests in Israel and Egypt mark the first anniversary since Israel's attack on Gaza last winter. Last weekend, thousands of Israelis marched through Tel Aviv marking the end of ten days of protest in the region against the siege on Gaza. Activists in Cairo, the port of Al- Arish, Tel Aviv, the Northern border with Gaza, and in the occupied Palestinian cities of Nablus, Ramallah, and Bethlehem brought global attention to the current situation and the affect of the ongoing closures on the Gaza strip.

Fourteen families, including 33 children, are living at Gilad Farm without electricity and water. The government has blocked public funding.

1,000 National Service girls in schools across the country will not strike, after Finance Ministry agrees to cough up the necessary funding.

The defense establishment recently relaunched its campaign with its Western partners to block Hamas' fund-raising network, Haaretz has learned. The government, meanwhile, is considering launching an awareness campaign to highlight the link between fund-raising for Palestinian causes and terror funding.
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