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The mainstream media, led by the intrepid White House press corps, closely followed by the inside-the-Beltway punditocracy, has declared what must happen for the oil to stop flowing into the Gulf of Mexico: President Obama needs to get angry at the oil.
I wish I were kidding, but sadly, I am not. This is the number one topic fluttering around the field of so-called conventional wisdom these days: Obama's not mad enough.

If you ask Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish about last January, he will talk about his daughters.

He will tell you Mayar always helped with dinner. That Aya hated doing the dishes.

Bessan once attended a peace camp in New Mexico. There she met a number of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls like herself.

"I remember her coming back and saying, 'Those girls are just like me,'" he says.

Sitting across the table in a pressed suit, the large Palestinian man looks up at the ceiling.

If you ask Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish about last January, he will talk about his daughters.

He will tell you Mayar always helped with dinner. That Aya hated doing the dishes.

Bessan once attended a peace camp in New Mexico. There she met a number of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls like herself.

"I remember her coming back and saying, 'Those girls are just like me,'" he says.

Sitting across the table in a pressed suit, the large Palestinian man looks up at the ceiling.

The Tel Aviv University/Stephen Roth Institute's newly released study on anti-Semitism in 2009 is getting loads of media attention. Among the many outlets that have reported its findings are the AP, CNN, and Haaretz.

Live theater is rare in the Gaza Strip; public criticism of its Islamist rulers is rare too. So perhaps it was no surprise that a play which gives vent to Palestinian's frustrations with their leaders should be a hit.
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Without official Israeli admission of complicity in the Dubai hit, some news outlets are making do with the commercial as the next best thing.

I try to avoid linking to my close friends (conflict of interest).

These are the known facts: The Dubai police claim that 26 visitors entered and exited the emirate over the past year on false British, Irish, Australian, German and French passports. Some or all were involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who also entered Dubai under a false identity. The Dubai police chief has accused the Mossad of the January 19 hit. He has presented no proof, but more than half of the fake passports in Dubai bore the names of Israelis.
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