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Gaza’s Problems Make Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Futile
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (6)I would love to be wrong. But the Obama administration's decision to force Israel and the Palestinian Authority to sit down for peace talks strikes me as nothing but mere grandstanding. There's a three-sided war going on among Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party controls the West Bank. But Gaza is controlled by militant Hamas which seized it from the Palestinian Authority three years ago.
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Terrible ‘Temporary’ Marriage Law Too Much Even for Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (12)Only in Iran. For a third time, the women of Iran have had to marshal forces to defeat a proposal by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to regulate legal “temporary” marriages. These so-called marriages are variously referred to as marriages of convenience, marriage for pleasure, and so on, and last anywhere from one hour to 99 years, many more of the former than the latter.
