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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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PM backs Israel Beiteinu bill which would "help shape Israel's identity."

PM backs Israel Beiteinu bill which would "help shape Israel's identity."

Yesterrday Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, said that "as long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity, called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."

Former Prime Minister Olmert has repeatedly said the same thing.

A year after the Gaza War - two Israelis and a Palestinian gather in a small church in Manhattan to talk about whether Operation Cast Lead, carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces, was an aggressive "attack" or an "operation."

"It is an attack just like when a bomb goes off in a bus. You cannot dehumanize people by calling this an operation," says Eman Rashid, a 41-year old single mother. "I can't sit in a room with a person who calls it an operation because they don't see me as a human being."

This article was published in the January 25, 2010 edition of the Nation.

A genetic analysis of northern Portuguese crypto-Jews recently yielded a mysterious discovery. It exposed an isolated Jewish community that has somehow retained its genetic identity for centuries - while avoiding the inbreeding that usually occurs in such situations.
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This week, I'd like to ask whether our identity is determined fundamentally by what we do or by our blood.

Louise Roger took care of Ehud despite the difficulties and risks. At the same time, she made sure that he did not forget his Jewish identity.