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		<title>Drought and revolution parch water-deprived Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/friedman-without-water-revolution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/friedman-without-water-revolution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 05:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elsewhere</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hope for peace in Syria fades as Russia backs away</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/21/hope-for-peace-in-syria-fades-as-russia-backs-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/21/hope-for-peace-in-syria-fades-as-russia-backs-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria uprising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting has escalated in Syria, and Russia has started to arm pro-Assad forces. A peaceful end to the civil war is looking less and less likely.]]></description>
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		<title>Before contemplating war on Syria, it&#8217;s time to reflect on past mistakes</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-j-simmons/presidents-going-to-war_b_3247399.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-j-simmons/presidents-going-to-war_b_3247399.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 02:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elsewhere</dc:creator>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s new PR dilemma: dealing with a boycott from Stephen Hawking</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/09/hawking-boycotts-and-the-settlements/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/09/hawking-boycotts-and-the-settlements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The World Is Not Enough</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephen hawking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Physicist Stephen Hawking has decided not to go to a conference in Israel. The Israelis think they’re being unfairly picked on -- but beating up on Hawkings is not the way to win friends, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East: here we go again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/02/are-they-real-wmds-this-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/02/are-they-real-wmds-this-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 23:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The World Is Not Enough</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=367597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is alleged to have used chemical weapons. If this is true, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>, what can the US and other countries actually do about it?
]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu not interested in peace &#8212; no surprises here</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/01/netanyahu-not-interested-in-peace-%E2%80%93-what-a-surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/05/01/netanyahu-not-interested-in-peace-%E2%80%93-what-a-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The World Is Not Enough</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab league]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In another disappointment in the quest for Middle East peace, Israel has refused to engage with a fresh offer from the Arab League, reports <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama makes chemical case in Syria, but should we intervene?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/01/obama-makes-chemical-case-in-syria-but-should-we-intervene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/01/obama-makes-chemical-case-in-syria-but-should-we-intervene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria uprising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With both sides of Syria's civil war now claiming the other side is using chemical weapons, the US may be forced to intervene. But what form would an intervention take, and would American allies get involved?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard: another old white man claiming credit for the Arab Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-another-old-white-man-claiming-credit-for-the-arab-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-another-old-white-man-claiming-credit-for-the-arab-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamdouh Habib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction in iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Howard's effort to claim credit for the Arab Spring is grubby and hypocritical -- he is using the brave sacrifice of thousands of Arab men and women to justify an illegal war.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>When John Howard was asked why he went to war on false premise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/when-john-howard-was-asked-why-he-went-to-war-on-false-premise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/when-john-howard-was-asked-why-he-went-to-war-on-false-premise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction in iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As protesters gathered outside, John Howard spoke in Sydney last night on the decision to go to war on Iraq. Here's what happened when he was asked why he made that decision without proof, and in defiance of the UN Security Council.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>John Howard&#8217;s still lying about Iraq invasion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/rundle-john-howards-still-lying-about-iraq-invasion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/rundle-john-howards-still-lying-about-iraq-invasion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saddam hussein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Howard is still defending the war in Iraq, and his speech to to the Lowy Institute is full of lies. Will nobody pull him up on the continuing falsehoods?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fraud just the beginning of aid program&#8217;s woes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/27/fraud-just-the-beginning-of-aid-programs-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/27/fraud-just-the-beginning-of-aid-programs-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ausaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colombo plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AusAID's scholarship program is wasteful and is possibly being defrauded, writes AID/WATCH's <b>Matt Hilton</b>. Why are we spending millions on programs that don't work or just help a handful of people?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Australia owes Iraq 10 years after the war began</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/25/what-australia-owes-iraq-10-years-after-the-war-began/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/25/what-australia-owes-iraq-10-years-after-the-war-began/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition of the willing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saddam hussein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=357874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One decade after the beginning of the war in Iraq, is the country better off? Is the region safer? And did the war accomplish its goals? Deakin University's <b>Dr Benjamin Isakhan</b> assesses where Iraq is at.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spies are supposed to be dull &#8212; Zygier didn&#8217;t fit the mould</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/25/spies-are-supposed-to-be-dull-zygier-didnt-fit-the-mould/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/25/spies-are-supposed-to-be-dull-zygier-didnt-fit-the-mould/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Zygier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spy agency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=358281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Zygier didn't fit the mould of a Mossad spy -- and potentially paid the price as a result. More details have emerged today to suggest "Prisoner X" wasn't very discrete in a job that demands it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama magic still works: Israel, Turkey breakthrough</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/03/24/obama-magic-still-works/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/03/24/obama-magic-still-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=358248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who thought US President Barack Obama had failed to deliver on his Middle East tour spoke too soon. The <em>rapprochement</em> between Israel and Turkey is a significant step, says <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chemical warfare could force US to intervene in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/22/chemical-warfare-could-force-us-to-intervene-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/22/chemical-warfare-could-force-us-to-intervene-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=357924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US has so far tried to stay out of the Syrian conflict. But with reports of the use of chemical weapons, it might have no choice but to intervene -- and further destabilise the region.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why, despite inaccuracies, Obama&#8217;s speech to Israelis was profound</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/obama-to-israelis-the-world-can-change.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/obama-to-israelis-the-world-can-change.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elsewhere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Starving, suffering horses a casualty of Egypt&#8217;s revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/18/starving-suffering-horses-a-casualty-of-egypts-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/18/starving-suffering-horses-a-casualty-of-egypts-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosni Mubarak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Student journalist <b>Michelle Slater</b> talks to Australian vet Dr Judith Mulholland, who has been working in Cairo, about the horses and cats that are the unseen victims of Egypt's political struggles.]]></description>
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		<title>At last, Israel has a new government</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/03/16/israel-finally-gets-a-government/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2013/03/16/israel-finally-gets-a-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The World Is Not Enough</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used the full amount of time available but appears to have finally put together a new right-wing coalition, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top 100 most powerful Arab women in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/revealed-100-most-powerful-arab-women-2013-491648.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/revealed-100-most-powerful-arab-women-2013-491648.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elsewhere</dc:creator>
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		<title>Terrorism hotspots: they&#8217;re not in Afghanistan, or the West</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/08/terrorism-hotspots-theyre-not-in-afghanistan-or-the-west/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/08/terrorism-hotspots-theyre-not-in-afghanistan-or-the-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Try as it might, Afghanistan doesn't even make the podium for the most dangerous places in the world by number of terrorism attacks. Syria and Iraq share that dubious prize -- while there are very few attacks in the West.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>After a decade in Iraq, misery and excuses prevail</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/08/after-a-decade-in-iraq-misery-and-excuses-prevail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/08/after-a-decade-in-iraq-misery-and-excuses-prevail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraqis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction in iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the invasion, Iraq's soundtrack is still one of explosions and misery. In the West, leaders that ordered it reach for excuses to justify the unjustifiable. <em>Crikey</em>'s man-at-large looks back.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob&#8217;s Dubai drama: Carr should call bluff in diplomatic poker</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/01/bobs-dubai-drama-carr-should-call-bluff-in-diplomatic-poker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/01/bobs-dubai-drama-carr-should-call-bluff-in-diplomatic-poker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consular assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Carr is naive in his dealings with Dubai to free two Australian businessmen. The Foreign Minister has to call the bluff of those in charge, writes retired diplomat <b>Bruce Haigh</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fallout from Israeli elections: peace at last?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/28/fallout-from-israeli-elections-peace-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/28/fallout-from-israeli-elections-peace-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east peace process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Change might just be afoot in the Middle East, following Israeli elections and comments by new US Secretary of State John Kerry. Analyst <b>Jack Georgieff</b> asks if peace is on the way -- or will it be more of the same.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Protester&#8217;s death in Israeli custody sparks Mid-East revenge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/26/protesters-death-in-israeli-custody-sparks-mid-east-revenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/26/protesters-death-in-israeli-custody-sparks-mid-east-revenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arafat jaradat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israeli palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinian issue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli custody, with some political factions promising bloody vengeance. <b>Nigel O'Connor</b> reports from Ramallah.]]></description>
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		<title>What life is like when you&#8217;re married to a suspected terrorist</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/20/wife-of-alqaida-terrorist-suspect</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/20/wife-of-alqaida-terrorist-suspect#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elsewhere</dc:creator>
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