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Israel’s election surprise

A new party led by a populist new-comer has got elected two Israelis of Ethiopian origin. What will be next is a curious case

Ran HaCohen (PhD), Middle East Correspondent

The military attack on Gaza last November, what I called here “Operation unseat Barak “, ended in yet another Israeli victory – if you ask the Israeli on the street that is; indeed the results of the January 22nd general election show that the big fiasco led to Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s retirement, at least for the time being.

March 21, 2013

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U.S

Breaking up is hard to do

America had been through a gruesome civil war and had paiddearly to keep itself intact. That precious scarifies is nowunder nerve-racking threat

Tomas Mega, U.S. correspondent

A curious thing happened after the November 6 re-election of Barack Obama. By November 14, residents in all 50 states had filed “We the People” petitions calling for the Federal Government to allow states to secede peacefully from the Union. In Texas over 125,000 signatures were secured on their petition to secede, more than any other state. One state Republican official called for Texas to have an ‘amicable divorce’ from the United States. “Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government?” wrote Peter Morrison, treasurer of the Hardin Country Republican party. “Let each go her own way.”

February 26, 2013

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What’s next for America and its guns?

America is confronted with one of the most complicated constitutional rights of its own making

Tomas Mega, Las Vegas, Nevada

After the incomprehensible massacre of twenty Connecticut children, America, for the moment, appears ready to address one of the most perplexing assurances enshrined in its Constitution; the Second Amendment, guaranteeing citizens the right to keep and bear arms.
The complexities are immense. The interpretation of the Second Amendment guarantees polarizing. None of the authors of that amendment are alive to gain counsel from. And, predictably, the arguments on both sides are frenzied and often in contradiction to facts.

January 4, 2013

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Israel’s election surprise

Breaking up is hard to do

What’s next for America and its guns?

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