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		<title>Makom Engaging Israel</title>
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		<title><![CDATA[We are moving!]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It is with regret and great excitement that we announce that we are closing our site here, and moving to www.makomisrael.org.
 
Meet us there for hot topics and blogs, together with huge amounts of educational materials and a whole interractive online region.
 
The site will be on air from November >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Palestinians and the UN]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
The UN will shortly address the issue of a Palestinian State along 1967 borders.
 
Questions abound in the media, asked with excitement or trepidation or both. 
 
Will the State be recognized? If the State is established, what difference will it make and to whom? 
If it does >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The meaning of the numbers]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night the MIddle East witnessed another remarkable demonstration of the spirit of democracy.
 
Over 450,000 people, 6% of Israel&rsquo;s entire population, were out demonstrating against government policy. 
 
 
That&rsquo;s the equivalent of almost 19 million marching throughout the USA, over 2 million in Canada, and nearly 4 >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Waves of Demonstrations]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Makom's Hot Topic writers are on vacation right now, and cannot respond directly to all that is happening in Israel right now.
 
We just didn't want to leave an outdated Hot Topic from a few weeks ago!
 
In the meantime, here you can find a summary of the country's editorials >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Housing in Israel]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The summer protest season is showing signs of longevity. The trail of tents fills not only Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, but streets throughout the country. Young people demonstrated last night against the high price of housing, and filled the streets of Tel Aviv.
 
 
Ordinarily one might wonder what >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The boycott law]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Even aliens from space would note that the phenomenon of Israeli citizens calling for economic boycotts to topple their own State is strange, and can also be seen to challenge democratic process in and of itself. Likewise to attempt to boycott specific areas in Israeli control, and in so doing >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicity campaign from Palestinian Authority]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The image is taken from a poster designed, funded, and promoted by the Palestinian Authority. (Click here for a full view) 
 
It is not a forgery, nor is it an example of the fringes of Palestinian society. It is handed out freely and proudly to anyone who would like >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ruling over Jerusalem]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 1st the full symbolic and political implications of the Obama/Netanyahu speeches will meet in full force. Yom Yerushalayim celebrates the day when Israel took control of Jerusalem, capturing a city on the &ldquo;other&rdquo; side of the 1967 borders. 
 
 
The city that housed both Temples, the city >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thinking Lag Ba'Omer today]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lag B'Omer is a festival full of contradictions. A short break in the seven-week austerities of the passage between Pesach and Shavuot: Some say we are marking the passing of a great mystic, others that we celebrate the end of a lethal epidemic, and others yet that we honor a >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Free People In Our Land]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday evening we will begin to celebrate the anniversary of a unique moment in Jewish history, just as tonight we mourn the loss of those who gave their lives for this moment to be sustained.
 
In May 1948 David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel, >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Holocaust day and bravery]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
In Israel the day marking Holocaust Memorial Day is also named for the bravery or heroism of those who perished.
 
We bow our heads before the suffering and the genocide of the millions, and we raise our heads to honor the courage of those who fought back. 
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		<title><![CDATA[Biyur Hametz - Spring Cleaning]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Passover tradition of biyur hametz, where we scour the house for left-overs of pre-Pesach food, is often interpreted beyond the physical. We must also, say some, rid ourselves of that which is over-inflated, empty or superfluous in ourselves. 
 
If so, it feels like this Pesach calls for >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Justice and Libel]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 4 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Goldstone has really put the cat among the pigeons.
 
 
The UN Human Rights Commission report that bears his name accuses Israel of deliberately attacking civilians, and committing war crimes. Since its publication it has been at the heart of all critique of Israeli foreign policy. Judge Goldstone has >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whose Israel is it anyway?]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing controversy about J-Street's place at the table continues to rumble.
 
After accusations and counter-accusations in  North America, last week J Street came to Israel. The Knesset, in an unprecedented move, chose to debate whether or not J Street could be classified as Pro-Israel.
 
While of course in >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft takes on the Jewish Establishment]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Word has just reached us that on March 20th software giant Microsoft will be suing the Jewish establishment for the damage done to its spell-checker functions.  
 
&quot;It's bad enough that you Jews keep introducing mispronounced Hebrew words into your English, but since when has Delegitimator been a real >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[The murders at Itamar]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[No words can describe the horror and disgust at the murder of the Fogel family late Friday night.
 
Nothing can justify nor explain such cold-blooded deliberate and calculated slaughter.
 
This act, condemned on the left, the right, and even elements of the West Bank Palestinian street, is made even darker >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deporting the Oscars]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat ironically, after Israel finally bags an Oscar, we may end up deporting some of the winners.
 
The short documentary, Strangers no More, celebrates the admirable work of the staff at Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv, as they dedicatedly struggle to educate children from 48 different countries. Now some 400 >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some perspective]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has happened inside Israel in the past few weeks - financial crises, military crises, governmental crises.
 
Yet to discuss anything inside Israel without acknowledging that a huge powerful wind is blowing outside, throughout the Arab world, feels besides the point.
 
It was Professor Nathan Rottenstreich who taught us that >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[A new Middle East]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be silly for us to think we might have any lasting insight to offer on the dynamic and volatile happenings throughout the Arab world, and in particular in Egypt. 
 
Human exhilaration at the sight of people fighting for their freedom is mixed with Israeli trepidation at what >><br>]]>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barak and Tu B'Shvat]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the Jewish New Year of the Trees in the shadow of the Carmel Forest Fire, we are offered an interesting perspective on the latest political upheaval. 
 
Tu B'Shvat is traditionally the festival of planting trees. A kind of Jewish Arbor Day. Yet the message we received >><br>]]>
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