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Is the "Daily Show" To Blame For Newsweek Reporter's Imprisonment In Iran? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/daily-show-to-blame-for-n_n_367978.html

In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/israellawprison_20091120093648

Should the West trust Iranian promises? The short answer is "no." But the underlying question is "Why not?" An interesting analysis on the concept of the doctrine of taqiyya, the Shiite religious rationale for concealment or dissimulation in political or...

Tel Aviv is dotted with skyscrapers, Haifa is crowned with huge five-star hotels, the Jerusalem hills are plastered with housing developments, many of them political hot potatoes. Eilat looks and feels like a mini-Las Vegas on the Red Sea. Thanks...

The United Nations says Iran is preparing to start up a uranium-enrichment site that was revealed only recently and which scientists suggest is too small for nuclear power purposes but suitable for making nuclear bombs. At its planned capacity the...

A collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago are on display in Israel. About 70 coins were found in an excavation at the foot of a key Jerusalem...

Anne Frank's diary has been censored out of a school textbook in Lebanon following a campaign by the militant group Hezbollah claiming the classic work promotes Zionism. The Text book was used by a private English-language school in western Beirut....

Do you remember the first time you smelled a type of flower? You almost certainly don't, but new research suggests that your brain might. The study, conducted in Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, showed there's something unique about the...

Hamas based in the Gaza Strip now have the ability to fire rockets with a range of 60km, putting Tel Aviv and other Israeli population centers at risk. The Islamic group had recently test-fired such a rocket increasing their range...

The U.S. House condemned as biased a U.N. report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza, and urged President Obama to oppose U.N. endorsement of its findings. The report "paints a distorted picture," said House Majority Leader Steny...

The counter-proposal offered by Iran contained such substantive revisions that Western officials are interpreting it as a rejection. The hope to get the bulk of Iran's enriched uranium out of the country is fading fast. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1933498,00.html

A new book tries to figure out how Israel became the leader of business innovation and managed to come through the 2008 financial crisis unaffected. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1311023934

Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian leader, has defied his Islamist rivals Hamas by calling a general election that threatens to perpetuate a damaging divide between the West Bank and Gaza. The announcement was immediately condemned by Hamas, whose fighters violently...

From a legal point of view, the Goldstone report is full of more holes than the tunnel-riddled strip along the Gaza-Egypt border. Despite its 574-page girth and the heaviness of its potential impact, the actual evidence compiled against Israel is...