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	<title>Levitt Letter Extra News &#187; Middle East</title>
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		<title>U.S. Energy secretary urged to visit Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/24/u-s-energy-secretary-urged-to-visit-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.JTA.org
A United States congressman urged Energy  Secretary Steven Chu to modify his trip to the Middle East to include  Israel.
Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), in a letter to Chu, wrote of his  disappointment that the secretary&#8217;s trip this week to the Middle East  does not include Israel. Chu is visiting Saudi Arabia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran to ban airlines not using the term ‘Persian Gulf&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/23/iran-to-ban-airlines-not-using-the-term-%e2%80%98persian-gulf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Leyne, news.bbc.co.uk
Iran has warned that airlines will be banned from flying into its airspace, unless they use the term &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; on their in-flight monitors. The transport minister has threatened to impound planes that fail to comply.
The nation is most insistent that the stretch of water separating it from its southern neighbors should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Journalist Held in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/15/british-journalist-held-in-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karin Laub, Associated Press
GAZA City, Gaza Strip &#8211; Hamas officials said Monday, Feb 15, that they have detained a British freelance journalist for up to 15 days, an unprecedented step against a foreigner since the Islamic militants seized Gaza in 2007.
Documentary filmmaker Paul Martin was detained Sunday at a Gaza military tribunal where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Valentines: Saudi religious police see red</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/13/no-valentines-saudi-religious-police-see-red/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/13/no-valentines-saudi-religious-police-see-red/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Abdullah Al-shihri,  Associated Press 
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, a Saudi official said.
Members of the feared religious police were inspecting shops for red roses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Accelerates Nuclear Program</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/10/iran-accelerates-nuclear-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday, February 9, an acceleration of its nuclear program that was followed by a U.S. threat of a &#8220;significant regime of sanctions.&#8221; Speaking in Washington, President Barack Obama said the process of developing an additional set of sanctions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Palestinian Refugees—Christians</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/02/01/the-forgotten-palestinian-refugees%e2%80%94christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Schwammenthal, online.WSJ.com  Wall Street Journal
Meet Ibrahim, a 23-year old Palestinian refugee living in the West Bank. Unlike those descendants of refugees born in United Nations camps, Ibrahim fled his birthplace just two years ago. And he wasn&#8217;t running away from Israelis, but from his Palestinian brethren in Gaza.
Ibrahim&#8217;s crime in that Hamas-ruled territory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel: The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/20/israel-the-deadly-price-of-pursuing-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/20/israel-the-deadly-price-of-pursuing-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Evelyn Gordon, www.CommentaryMagazine.com
When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel’s international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was signed with Jordan; five other Arab states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian paper calls Mossad chief Dagan &#8216;Israel&#8217;s superman&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/18/egyptian-paper-calls-mossad-chief-dagan-israels-superman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/18/egyptian-paper-calls-mossad-chief-dagan-israels-superman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Ahram credits Meir Dagan with single-handedly stalling Iranian nuclear program for eight years
By Roee Nahmias, www.YNetNews.com
Egypt&#8217;s Al-Ahram reported last weekend that Iran was being prevented from developing staggering nuclear capabilities by Israel&#8217;s Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, whom the paper dubbed &#8220;Israel&#8217;s superman.&#8221;
&#8220;The Iranians definitely know who is behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Massoud Ali [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt’s Steel Wall On Gaza Strip Border</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/08/egypt%e2%80%99s-steel-wall-on-gaza-strip-border/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/08/egypt%e2%80%99s-steel-wall-on-gaza-strip-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christian Fraser, news.BBC.co.uk
Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned. When it is finished the wall will be 6-7 miles long and will extend 60 feet below the surface.
The Egyptians are being helped by American army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit closes amid controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/06/dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-closes-amid-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/01/06/dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-closes-amid-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Valpy, www.GlobeandMail.com
The six-month exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls closed January 3 in Toronto, with scholars baffled by the Jordanian government&#8217;s last-minute request to Canada to stop the ancient manuscripts from going back to Israel.
The request, delivered to the Canadian chargé d&#8217;affaires in the Jordanian capital of Amman, underscores the tortuous history of [...]]]></description>
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