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As March 14 Approaches, Tensions Rise in Lebanon - E. Picali (MEMRI)

Compelling Testimony, Political Theater at Radicalization Hearing (IPT News)

He wondered why a conversation about radicalization among Muslims like his own son generated so much angst. "It seems to me that the American people are sitting around and doing nothing about Islamic extremism, as if Carlos's story and the other stories told at these hearings aren't true. There is a big elephant in the room, but our society continues not to see it."

Next Panel Must Hear Activists - Abdur-Rahman Muhammad (IPT News) 

As American Muslims, in our own quiet spaces, we all recognize that there is a problem, a very serious one at that. Rep. Peter King made it quite clear from the beginning when he said, "The overwhelming number of American Muslims are outstanding Americans".

Egyptian Company Won't Restore Natural Gas to Israel (JTA)

Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia - George Friedman (Stratfor)

While crucial for the Libyan people and of some significance to the world’s oil markets, in our view, Libya is not the most important event in the Arab world at the moment. The demonstrations in Bahrain are, in my view, far more significant in their implications for the region and potentially for the world.

At the UN Human Rights Council, the Inmates Are Running the Asylum - Daniel Ayalon (Foreign Policy) The council recently released a lengthy report partly praising Libya's human rights record, and commending the Libyan regime for "the importance that the country attached to human rights." 

Now Syria Wants a Seat on the UN Human Rights Council - Claudia Rosett (PajamasMedia) We learn this not because the U.S. Mission to the UN has publicly flagged this outrage — they haven’t. We learn it because UN Watch in Geneva has been keeping an eye on the list of candidates, squirreled away several layers deep on the UN General Assembly web site.

 

On the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day -- What Are Feminists Doing About Honor Killings? -  Phyllis Chesler (Fox News) In my view, western academic feminists, including gay liberationists, are so afraid of being condemned as "colonialists" or "racists" that this fear trumps their concern for women's rights in the Arab and Muslim world.
 

China, Israel Pledge to Enhance Economic Cooperation (People's Daily-China)

Israeli Lecturer Attacked by Belfast Pro-Palestine Activists - Marcus Dysch (Jewish Chronicle-UK)

Al Jazeera’s Handy Twitter Dashboard to Keep Track of the Revolutions (New York Magazine)

British Special Forces Caught in Libya with Fake Passports (BBC News)
A British diplomatic team, including six soldiers believed to be SAS, has been freed two days after being detained in eastern Libya. Libyan security guards found they were carrying passports from at least four different nationalities.

Britain Expels Top Mossad Agent over "Intolerable" Passport Cloning (Times-UK, 23Mar10)

NGOs Collaborate on Israel Apartheid Week (NGO Monitor) Israeli Apartheid Week is part of an anti-Israel campaign to falsely label Israel as an "apartheid state" as part of a strategy devised at the 2001 UN Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa.

It's Time for the Jews to Stand Up for Themselves - David Horowitz (FrontPage)

Chanted by students across America on university campuses:  "Death to Israel ! Death to America !" If we in America do not stand up for ourselves now, there will be no America tomorrow.

Facebook group advocating for Third Intifada attracts over 40,000 supporters (CIFWatch) Anyone interested in acting to prevent another deadly campaign of terror against Israelis should click on the link “Report Page”
This page now has over 75,000 members. 

Two Palestinians stab to death five members of Israeli family at Itamar, West Bank  (DEBKAfile)Palestinians armed with knives stabbed the mother, father and three of the children, aged, 11, three and a baby of a month in their sleep. Hamas websites hailed the murder as a "heroic operation."

Palestinian PM condemns murder of settler family (AlArabiya)

Pakistan's Jewish Problem - Tufail Ahmad (MEMRI) The new generations of Pakistani youth are being taught by the influential Urdu-language press that all major problems facing the society and state of Pakistan are created by Israel, the U.S., and India – or Jews, Christians, and Hindus respectively.
 
British Prime Minister Cameron: Israel Has a Right to Search Vessels Heading to Gaza - Jonny Paul (Jerusalem Post) British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday reaffirmed his commitment to Israel. He told the Jewish community's Community Security Trust: "When rockets are being launched at Israeli citizens, and when children are in danger, Israel is within its rights to protect its people." "When over 100 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza in one year, Israel is within its rights to search vessels bringing cargo into Gaza."