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	<title>Levitt Letter Extra News &#187; Middle East</title>
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		<title>Saudis Ask For Aid If Pertodollars Decline</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/06/saudis-ask-for-aid-if-pertodollars-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two stories follow, provoking a little less sympathy for the OPEC oil sheiks&#8217; request.
Story 1:
Sheik flies Lamborghini 6,500 miles to Britain for oil change
By Neil Syson, The Sun  www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1493291.ece
A rich Arab sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round trip to Britain for a service.
The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Police Clash With Protesters</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/04/iranian-police-clash-with-protesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Farnaz Fassihi and Chip Cummins,  online.wsj.com
Nov 4 — Iranian security forces battled with opposition protesters in Tehran Wednesday, after demonstrators used the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Embassy as cover for their first significant protest in weeks.
The scale of the opposition protests — and the government crackdown — was unclear early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Seizes 500 Tons of Hezbollah Bound Iran Arms</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/11/04/israel-seizes-500-tons-of-hezbollah-bound-iran-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gwen Ackerman and Calev Ben-David, www.Bloomberg.com
Nov. 4  &#8211; The Israeli navy intercepted a ship heading for Syria and seized an unprecedented 500-ton haul of weapons from Iran intended for the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, the army said.
“This is the largest cache of smuggled weapons ever to be seized by Israel,” army spokeswoman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s anti-Mubarak succession coalition</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/27/egypts-anti-mubarak-succession-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amro Hassan, LATimesblogs.LATimes.com
Opposition leaders and political parties have started a new front to challenge the prospect that President Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s son, Gamal, an untested politician with limited domestic and international experience, will succeed in the 2011 elections.
Talk of succession has gripped the country in recent months as Gamal Mubarak&#8217;s profile has risen, including a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel’s Secret War on Hezbollah</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/25/israel%e2%80%99s-secret-war-on-hezbollah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s proxy army in Lebanon will think twice before launching another round of missile attacks.
By Ronen Bergman,
On October 12, a secret Hezbollah munitions bunker in South Lebanon blew up under mysterious circumstances, injuring a senior official in the organization. This is the second such incident in recent months. The first occurred on July 14, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN tries to put Israel in the dock</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/23/un-tries-to-put-israel-in-the-dock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.nydailynews.com
Dare defend yourself from terrorist attacks and risk international war crimes prosecution.
That is the lesson of the October 16 action by the UN Human Rights Council, which voted 25 to 6, with 11 abstentions, to endorse the Goldstone Report, a document that brands Israelis as war criminals for trying to stop deadly rocket-fire from Gaza [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Israel Strikes Iran First</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/21/if-israel-strikes-iran-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired General Says Israeli Attack to Take Out Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Facilities Not Only Possible, the U.S. Should Join In
By Dan Raviv, www.CBSnews.com
Expect the unexpected at a conference of Middle East experts.
Several hundred spent a recent weekend at a resort hotel 30 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., forced by cold rain to focus on nothing but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad Proud of Holocaust Denial Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/23/1678/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dudi Cohen, www.YNetNews.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, Sept 21,  he was proud he had managed to enrage the West by denying the Holocaust during a speech he made in Tehran in honor of Jerusalem day [actually, al-Quds Day, the last Friday of Ramadan when Muslims protest Zionism. Begun in 1979] .
Ahmadinejad was quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death Spiral of the Islamic Republic III</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/22/the-death-spiral-of-the-islamic-republic-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/22/the-death-spiral-of-the-islamic-republic-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Ledeen&#8211; www.PajamasMedia.com

Marx would have delighted in the events of Friday, September 18th, all over Iran.  Groucho, that is, for on the 18th the supreme leader and all his co-conspirators were transformed from figures of awe to objects of ridicule.  As Machiavelli likes to remind us, the most dangerous thing for any leader is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu: Israel won&#8217;t hold back when attacked</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/13/netanyahu-israel-wont-hold-back-when-attacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amy Teibel, Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Sunday that Israel &#8220;will not hold back&#8221; when attacked and holds the Lebanese government responsible for any assault on his country.
Netanyahu delivered the warning after two rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Friday. Israel responded immediately with artillery fire, and [...]]]></description>
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