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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Newsvine - Yaakov's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Yaakov's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:40:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:02:56 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YaakovNewsvine" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>The Story of 'Operation Orchard': How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor</title><description><![CDATA[In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant and who gave the orders for the strike?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3455229-the-story-of-operation-orchard-how-israel-destroyed-syrias-al-kibar-nuclear-reactor</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3455229-the-story-of-operation-orchard-how-israel-destroyed-syrias-al-kibar-nuclear-reactor</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>iran</category><category>middle-east</category><category>nuclear</category><category>syria</category><category>mossad</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:40:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>And Now the Truth Becomes Clear: Hilary Clinton Announces that the Palestinians are the Obstacles to Peace</title><description><![CDATA[At the center of this stands the Number One Paradox of the issue, in some ways of all Middle Eastern politics: Why is it that although the Palestinians complain that they are suffering from a horrible occupation and not having a state of their own they are not in any hurry to mak&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/02/3451801-and-now-the-truth-becomes-clear-hilary-clinton-announces-that-the-palestinians-are-the-obstacles-to-peace</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/02/3451801-and-now-the-truth-becomes-clear-hilary-clinton-announces-that-the-palestinians-are-the-obstacles-to-peace</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>palestinians</category><pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:56:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israel's 'Win' in Gaza Has Lessons for Approach to Iran</title><description><![CDATA[When it was launched last December, Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip looked to most people in Washington to be risky, counterproductive and doomed to futility.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/22/3299404-israels-win-in-gaza-has-lessons-for-approach-to-iran</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/22/3299404-israels-win-in-gaza-has-lessons-for-approach-to-iran</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>war</category><category>iran</category><category>middle-east</category><category>gaza</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:59:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Unsettled - West Bank Settlers Dig In, but Resolve May Have a Limit</title><description><![CDATA[The remaining 100,000 (Jewish settlers living in Judea & Samaria) are ideologically (and, most of them, religiously) committed to staying.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/14/3264982-unsettled-west-bank-settlers-dig-in-but-resolve-may-have-a-limit</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/14/3264982-unsettled-west-bank-settlers-dig-in-but-resolve-may-have-a-limit</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>west-bank</category><category>settler</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:38:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Avoiding an American Ambush</title><description><![CDATA[The basic reality that the US is being led by a radical ideologue who clings to his views in the face of overwhelming proof of their falsity is the most fundamental fact that world leaders must reckon with today as they formulate policies to contend with the Obama administration.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/07/3003625-avoiding-an-american-ambush</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/07/3003625-avoiding-an-american-ambush</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>anti-israel</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:06:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Human Rights on the Backburner</title><description><![CDATA[To recap, take a Holocaust-denying president who has advocated genocide and the elimination of the Jewish state, a government hell-bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, said government's brutal repression of its own people, and the subsequent "re-election" of the a&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2990606-human-rights-on-the-backburner</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2990606-human-rights-on-the-backburner</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>iran</category><category>human-rights</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:25:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Barack Obama vs International Law - "Settlements" are not Illegal</title><description><![CDATA[Obama has called settlements "illegitimate." And he has said that Israel "has obligations under the road map," while referring disparagingly to "settlements that, in past agreements, have been categorized as illegal." 

...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/28/2977257-barack-obama-vs-international-law-settlements-are-not-illegal</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/28/2977257-barack-obama-vs-international-law-settlements-are-not-illegal</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>united-states</category><category>middle-east</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>judea</category><category>samaria</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mashaal: Hamas Ready for Peace, but not with Jewish State </title><description><![CDATA[Hamas head Khaled Mashaal gave a speech Thursday evening in response to a policy speech given by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu several days earlier.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/26/2972098-mashaal-hamas-ready-for-peace-but-not-with-jewish-state-</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/26/2972098-mashaal-hamas-ready-for-peace-but-not-with-jewish-state-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>hamas</category><category>peace-terrorism</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Will Obama's Justice Department Prosecute Abbas for Murder?</title><description><![CDATA[Obama said in Sderot that he would not tolerate rocket attacks that endangered his own daughters.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/14/2816516-will-obamas-justice-department-prosecute-abbas-for-murder</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/14/2816516-will-obamas-justice-department-prosecute-abbas-for-murder</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>terrorism</category><category>anti-semitism</category><category>jewish</category><category>double-standard</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:06:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Learning nothing from history</title><description><![CDATA[Leaving aside for the moment the malice towards Israel that is involved, the attitude of the Obama administration towards the Middle East is well-nigh incomprehensible in its suicidal stupidity.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/13/2811418-learning-nothing-from-history</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/13/2811418-learning-nothing-from-history</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>war</category><category>iran</category><category>middle-east</category><category>hitler</category><category>pressure</category><category>world-war-2</category><category>czechoslovakia</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:28:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel </title><description><![CDATA[The overall Obama policy will be to push Israel to the brink, using financial and military blackmail against the Netanyahu government, while maintaining control over American Jews to prevent any protests or backtalk.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/06/2781496-obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel-</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/06/2781496-obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>anti-israel</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2009 11:36:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Breaking faith with Israel</title><description><![CDATA[Will the United States sell out its strongest ally in the Middle East to cozy up to its worst enemy? The Washington Times reports today that the Israeli government is increasingly worried that the Obama administration will break a 40-year understanding between Washington and Tel &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/06/2781329-breaking-faith-with-israel</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/06/2781329-breaking-faith-with-israel</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>iran</category><category>washington</category><category>middle-east</category><category>usa</category><category>nuclear</category><category>treaty</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2009 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Obama Doctrine</title><description><![CDATA[The core tenets of the Obama Doctrine to date would make a charter member of the Weather Underground cheer:]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2755392-the-obama-doctrine</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2755392-the-obama-doctrine</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>foreign-policy</category><category>anti-israel</category><category>united-naitons</category><category>islame</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:23:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israel's Arab Cheerleaders</title><description><![CDATA[As the Arabs line up behind Israel, the Obama administration is operating under the delusion that the Iranians will be convinced to give up their nuclear program if Israel destroys its communities in Judea and Samaria.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/28/2741589-israels-arab-cheerleaders</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/28/2741589-israels-arab-cheerleaders</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>iran</category><category>middle-east</category><category>muslim</category><category>arab</category><category>anti-israel</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:18:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Our Selective Moral Outrage</title><description><![CDATA[Of course, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict inflames the Muslim world in a way the Chechen one does not. But why is that, when so many more Muslims are being victimized by Russia?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/22/2716303-our-selective-moral-outrage</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/22/2716303-our-selective-moral-outrage</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>russia</category><category>muslim</category><category>anti-semitism</category><category>arabs</category><category>anti-israel</category><category>chechneya</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In Israel, a voice of realism</title><description><![CDATA[But the headlines were wrong, as anyone can ascertain by reading Lieberman's short address. Far from disparaging peace, Israel's new foreign minister called for pursuing it with the respect and realism it deserves.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/21/2710801-in-israel-a-voice-of-realism</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/21/2710801-in-israel-a-voice-of-realism</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>lieberman</category><category>peace-process</category><category>road-map</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:17:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>An Apology to Israel and the Rest of America's True Friends and Allies</title><description><![CDATA[But now, as the first leg of the World Apology TourTM has come to its end and Obama must once again endure the tedium of the White House, I thought I'd take up the torch and deliver a few apologies that Obama seems to have forgotten.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/12/2674591-an-apology-to-israel-and-the-rest-of-americas-true-friends-and-allies</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/12/2674591-an-apology-to-israel-and-the-rest-of-americas-true-friends-and-allies</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>united-states</category><category>europe</category><category>poland</category><category>allies</category><category>apologies</category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:44:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>President Obama, King Abdullah, and the end of Israel</title><description><![CDATA[In tandem, there was scant paid attention to a disquieting comment by Obama when he spoke effusively about a 2002 Saudi peace initiative for normalization of relations between the Arab world and Israel.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/06/2647481-president-obama-king-abdullah-and-the-end-of-israel</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/06/2647481-president-obama-king-abdullah-and-the-end-of-israel</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>israel</category><category>united-states</category><category>middle-east</category><category>peace</category><category>saudi-arabia</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:34:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?</title><description><![CDATA[The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/25/2597682-fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-the-backseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/25/2597682-fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-the-backseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime</guid><category>us-news</category><category>child</category><category>hyperthermia</category><category>backseat</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>An Arab-Made Misery</title><description><![CDATA[International donors pledged almost $4.5 billion in aid for Gaza earlier this month. It has been very painful for me to witness over the past few years the deteriorating humanitarian situation in that narrow strip where I lived as a child in the 1950s.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaakov]]></dc:creator><link>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/22/2580432-an-arab-made-misery</link><guid>http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/22/2580432-an-arab-made-misery</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>gaza</category><category>arab</category><category>palestinian</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:41:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
