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Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments

WASHINGTON POST by Ruth Eglash November 5, 2014 SDEROT, Israel — What to do with rusty old shipping containers no longer fit to haul goods across the high seas? Here in this southern Israeli town, they have been cleaned of … Continue reading

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IDF Ranked as Most Powerful Military in the Middle East

UNITED WITH ISRAEL October 28, 2014 Jane’s Information Group, a British publishing company specializing in military, aerospace and transportation topics, published its yearly rankings of the world militaries, and the results regarding the Middle East are not surprising. The Israel … Continue reading

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ISIS Has Almost No Popular Support in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or Lebanon

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE by David Pollock October 14, 2014 New polls show that the group has curried little favor in key countries, but the nuances behind the numbers have important implications for U.S. policy toward Syria, Iran, and other actors. How … Continue reading

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Israel’s Bright Future

FRONT PAGE MAG by Joseph Puder October 8, 2014 A new year is generally a time to assess the past and consider the future. The year 5775 (in the Jewish calendar) is no different. A look back at this past … Continue reading

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War against ISIS headed for failure

TORONTO SUN by Tarek Fatah September 16, 2014 When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat down in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, surrounded by the leaders of 10 Arab states, to build a coalition against … Continue reading

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Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick August 21, 2014 Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors … Continue reading

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The New Middle East War

MOSAIC by Michael Doran July 2, 2014 A single conflict now stretches from Baghdad to Beirut. How many sides are there—and whose side is the U.S. on? The new war is, in brief, a struggle over the regional order. In the … Continue reading

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