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News Sebastian Gorka Unleashes New Firestorm With Plan To Carve Up Libya
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is once again facing disdain from Middle East experts—this time over a reported plan he advanced to partition Libya. Shortly before Trump’s inauguration and Gorka’s own appointment as deputy assistant to the president, Gorka advocated cutting war-torn Libya into three separate countries and drew his outline for the…
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Opinion Right Rips Peres for Citing ‘67 Lines (P.S.: He Didn’t)
A funny thing happened to Israeli figurehead president Shimon Peres on his way to the World Economic Forum. Scheduled to address a gathering of Middle Eastern political and business leaders at a Jordanian Dead Sea conference center on Sunday evening, the 89-year-old elder statesman came under furious attack from Likud cabinet ministers Sunday afternoon for…
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Fast Forward Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy Barred From Libya for Being Jewish
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who supported France?s military intervention in Libya, was barred from visiting there because he is Jewish. Levy, a celebrity in France, was supposed to join former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on a visit that began on Tuesday in Tripoli, according to a report on the news website Rue89. The website…
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Fast Forward Crucial Debate May Focus on Libya and Iran
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a third and final time on Monday near the end of a presidential campaign season marked by a high number of memorable debates. With 15 days to go until Americans vote on Nov. 6, the two candidates turn to…
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Fast Forward Middle East May Loom Large in Final Debate
When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face off on Monday in their third and final debate, it will be the Republican challenger’s last best chance to recover from his botched “Libya moment” and exploit vulnerabilities in his opponent’s foreign policy record. But Romney has an uphill struggle to make his case against Obama, who…
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Fast Forward Romney Stumbles on Libya Attack in Debate
President Barack Obama scored a hit on Mitt Romney when the challenger stumbled over the attack in Benghazi, Libya in the second presidential debate, while the GOP candidate tried to use the topic to raise the issue of relations with Israel. Responding to Obama’s pledge to investigate the circumstances of an attack that killed four…
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Fast Forward Calls To Free Anti-Islam Film Poster
An Egyptian Coptic Christian arrested on suspicion of posting online an anti-Islam film that ignited Muslim protests around the world should be freed immediately, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber was detained by police in Cairo last month after his neighbours accused him of uploading sections of the film “Innocence of…
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