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		<title>Iran: Careful What You Wish For</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/06/26/iran-careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few readers raised the very reasonable complaint that none of us has blogged about the events in Iran. You're right. A few feeble excuses: Andrew was in Saudi, Scott back in the U.S. and I was traveling through Lebanon and Syria.  This may come as something of a shock to a few of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1418&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riding with Raza Khan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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Photos by John Stanmeyer/VII
Nothing is more valuable to a reporter than a good driver and a fixer, someone who can get you into a dangerous place and get you out –-fast. In the pantheon of world-class driver/fixers there was hardly anyone better than Raza Khan from Peshawar who drove a battered Toyota taxi with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1181&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli minister wants &#039;Swine&#039; Flu renamed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pig is a much-reviled creature in the Holy Land. It especially provokes shudders of horror and disgust among ultra-orthodox Jews. In the new rightwing cabinet, the black-frocked Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman finds the name “Swine Flu” so revolting that he wants the epidemic re-named the “Mexican Flu”.
Would it be a surprise if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1148&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists Scare Off Israeli Tourists from Sinai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, for the Passover holiday, I joined the long caravan of Israelis streaming down to the Red Sea. It used to be, they'd swarm across the frontier to the beaches of Sinai, a reverse of Moses leading his people to the Promised Land. On Passover, the Egyptians would usually expect over 150,000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1088&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ladies Vanish in Israeli Cabinet Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it the case of the vanishing cabinet ministers. Two ultra-orthodox newpapers thought it risqué to show the official photo of the new Israeli cabinet because –-gasp!-- it included two women ministers. So they air brushed the two females out of Bibi Netanyahu's gigantic cabinet because their haredi readers might find the photo too “immodest”.
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		<title>The Spiders of Allah Strike Again</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/03/27/the-spiders-of-allah-strike-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you end a conflict when everybody fighting thinks that God is on his side? It's impossible, especially when the line between faith and superstition wobbles and breaks apart. Shortly before I came to Jerusalem, Israel's seemingly indestructible Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fell into a coma. Many Israelis are convinced that Sharon was struck [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1016&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More doubts on Dead Sea Scroll &#039;Authors&#039;</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/03/18/more-doubts-on-dead-sea-scroll-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you readers have shown interest in a story I did recently about a Hebrew University Professor, Rachel Elior, casting doubt on the common wisdom that the Jewish sect known as the Essenes were the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.So I'm re-printing an article that Elior wrote on the subject, which raises many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=1011&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Israeli ex-Prez: A serial sex offender?</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/03/09/ex-israeli-prez-a-serial-sex-offender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes courage for a woman to seek justice against her rapist, and it takes a double dose of courage if the alleged rapist happens to be the ex-president of Israel, Moshe Katsav. The accuser is known as ‘A', to protect her identity. She is now a 47-year old mother of three, petite, “smiling and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=991&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closed Zone</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/03/06/closed-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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When the Gaza war broke out, I tried to track down Ari Folman, the Israeli director of the animated anti-war film “Waltz with Bashir” to get his opinion on the fighting. It wasn't easy.  Waltz, which deals with the repressed memories of Israeli soldiers who fought in Lebanon, was nominted for an Academy Award, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=988&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEVIL&#039;S FOOTSTEPS IN GAZA</title>
		<link>http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/01/26/the-devils-footsteps-in-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim McGirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's something about phosphorus, the way it smoulders and burns for days, that makes it looks as though the Devil had walked by, leaving fiery footprints in the earth. I saw phosphorus today in a bombed out ice cream factory (did the Israeli gunners think Hamas had paused for a Magnum bar?). A fire was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mideast.blogs.time.com&blog=5566890&post=854&subd=timemiddleeast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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