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WMR: U.N. Agency in Gaza Runs Out of Food

Your Name and Date: Victoria Wilmarth 11/16/08
Title of Article: U.N. Agency in Gaza Runs Out of Food
Source of Article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/15/gaza.humanitarian/index.html
 
Article Summary
Time: November 2008
Place: Gaza
Key People: IDF, UN, Israeli Government, HAMAS (potentially), Ban Ki-Moon, Ehud Olmer, Mahmoud Abbas
Key Concepts:
Article Summary:  Israel sealed off the border with Gaza on November 5th in response to rocket attacks. [...]

2008 11 16 Tori Wilmarth Arab-Israeli Conflict
Palestinians
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WMR Consumer Breaks on Bread and Electricity

Article:
Consumer Breaks on Bread and Electricity
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128297
Place: Israel
Key People: Ministry of Industry, The Bakers’ Union
Summary:
In the current times of economic distress, the Israel Ministry of Industry is lowering the price of “common bread” by ten percent. The Bakers’ Union is strongly against the lowering of prices. Before this, the Ministry already lowered electricity costs to lessen [...]

2008 11 09 Chase Potter Economic Issues
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WMR 3 Israeli Security Chief Warns Of Armed Jewish Right

Zoe Weinberg November 2, 2008
Article:
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Israeli Security Chief Warns Of Armed Jewish Right
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-us-palestinians-israel-radicals.html
Time: November, 2, 2008
Place: Jerusalem, Israel
Key People: Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, radicial right Israelis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
Summary:
The radical right wing in Israel is considering using violence to prevent any peace agreements in which the West [...]

2008 11 02 Zoe Weinberg Arab-Israeli Conflict
Foreign Policy
Judaism
Middle East
NMH-PA Media Reports
Palestinians Comments (1)

Palin Meets with Ambassador Meridor

The Middle East in the News

•Hannah Turk 10/27/08

•Article: Israeli Ambassador Meets Palin as Republicans Rally for Virginia

• Haaretz.com

•Article Summary

Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Sallai Meridor, met with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during her campaign tour of Virginia. Meeting for the first time, Palin expressed support for the Jewish Agency, an organization that [...]

2008 10 27 Hannah Turk Arab-Israeli Conflict
Judaism
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Israeli Elections Likely in February or March

Israeli Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni has given up trying to form a coalition with splinter parties and has called for early elections.   
“Israel’s fractured politics reflect an atomised society.”   — BBC
Story at the BBC
More on Israel

2008 10 26 Ted Thornton Comments (0)

WMR

Chase Potter 10/23/08
Title: Right of Reply: Compare records, not rhetoric
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Article Summary:
Time: Presidential Campaigns
Place: Israel, USA
Key People: Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
Main Idea: This is an OP-ED piece written by someone who is openly in favor of John McCain, but he makes some good points about each candidate’s position towards [...]

2008 10 23 Chase Potter Foreign Policy
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Imminent U.S. or Israeli Attack on Iran Seen as Less Likely

Reasons cited include: American elections, the poor state of the global economy, Israeli government in transition. 
Story at BBC

2008 10 23 Ted Thornton Foreign Policy
Iran
Trends Comments (0)

WMR2 - Photos of Jerusalem

Not too terribly long of a “media report,” but it was interesting and thus thought I would share.

October 18, 2008
•Title of Article/Editorial/Column (indicate which type):  “Le Monde 2”: Jérusalem en plans serrés par Didier Ben Loulou (photographic documentation)  

•Source of Article: Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-2/portfolio/2008/10/15/le-monde-2-jerusalem-en-plans-serres-par-didier-ben-loulou_1107252_1004868.html 

•Article Summary
 Time: Over the past 18 years
Place: Jerusalem
 Key People: Didier Ben Loulou, a French [...]

2008 10 22 Kaki Elgin Arab-Israeli Conflict
Art and Architecture
Culture
Judaism
Media
Middle East
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Follow-up to “The Band’s Visit”

After watching “The Band’s Visit,” some were enthralled hearing what the actors and filmmakers had to say about their experience working one-on-one together as Arabs and Jews.  David Shipler in his book Arab and Jew (New York: Penguin Books, 1986) provides penetrating psychological portraits of the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict and is highly recommended reading.  [...]

2008 10 15 Ted Thornton Arab-Israeli Conflict
Culture Comments (0)

Yesha Council Launches Non-Aggressive Campaign

The Middle East in the News

•Your Name & Date Emma Goldstein, October, 5th

•Title of Article/Editorial/Column (indicate which type)

Yesha Council Launches Non-Aggressive Campaign/News article

•Source of Article — Include a Link
Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3605508,00.html

•Article Summary

Time

Place
The West Bank
Yesha (acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza—the biblical names of areas in the West Bank [...]

2008 10 12 Emma Goldstein Arab-Israeli Conflict
Judaism
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