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		<title>Sukkot and the housing shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the whole country is abuzz with the sound of sukkot being built, it&#8217;s a shame that the government doesn&#8217;t take a lesson from it all. And by &#8220;it&#8217;s a shame&#8221; I mean, it&#8217;s shameful. Why? Because the issue that kicked off this summer&#8217;s nationwide protest movement is the crushing cost of housing, and because sukkah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=675&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First fratricide, then fracture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attack on an IDF patrol by settler thugs that Haaretz is reporting today would merely be the latest in a long string of such deplorable acts, including several recent but relatively harmless acts of &#8220;price tag&#8221; vandalism. The story inspires several thoughts. Here are four: 1) These kids are nothing but thugs &#8212; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=672&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A headache for Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press story yesterday on Salafi groups in Gaza directing their burning hatreds at the &#8220;blasphemous&#8221; government of Hamas was both chilling and delightful. Chilling, obviously, because of the venom and extremism fueling these groups, and because of the thoughts of what damage they could cause to Israeli civilians by continuing to fire rockets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=668&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goldstone in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israelis still fuming over the Goldstone Report will only fume more if they pay attention to events in Afghanistan. The major joint NATO-Afghan offensive there against the Taliban is beginning to net some senior Bad Guys &#8212; but at a cost. Once again, civilians are paying the ultimate price in the war to wrest their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=666&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s media in crisis</title>
		<link>http://samser.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/israels-media-in-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ari Shavit, a veteran analyst at Haaretz, confronts the crisis that Israel&#8217;s media face in a bold piece today. As he writes, Fundamentally, the crisis is global. In the United States and in Europe, the best and the strongest of media outlets are in danger. The Internet and the attention deficits of young people have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=659&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminders of what&#8217;s really needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two really important points were made of late about what really needs to be done to see real progress here: Elliott Abrams wrote of the need to turn attention away from pointless negotiations in Jerusalem hotels and toward the critical work of creating tangible, functioning institutions in the hills of the West Bank. Khaled Abu [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=657&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Mickey in the Land of the Cedars</title>
		<link>http://samser.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/more-on-mickey-in-the-land-of-the-cedars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Curtis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discussion between Errol Morris and Ben Curtis in the New York Times continues today with a deeper look at &#8220;posing&#8221; photographs and how the news is made. Here&#8217;s a particularly useful passage about posing, context and the reader&#8217;s intelligence: ERROL MORRIS: We don’t even really know clearly when we make the accusation of posing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=651&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worth 1,000 words&#8230; and much more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting discussion on the power and meaning of photojournalism, with a special focus on the coverage of the 2006 aerial bombing campaign of Lebanon by Israel, in the opinion section of the New York Times. It touches on a very sensitive subject for this region, and one that has repeatedly bothered Israelis, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=649&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Person of the Decade&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://samser.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/person-of-the-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haaretz is inviting readers to select a Person of the Decade, with the option of choosing up to five people who &#8220;have had the most impact on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world in the past 10 years.&#8221; Astonishingly, Yasser Arafat is not among the options(!), although other big-time Bad Guys like Iranian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=632&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy rider</title>
		<link>http://samser.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/easy-rider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[electric bicycle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspector Gadget, your bicycle is ready. Andrew Hamilton has prepared it according to all your needs: It has an advanced battery pack to give you an extra burst for pursuing bad guys, and it folds up nice and small, too, like the impossible tools that you use to catch them. It can even survive a gunfight.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2644799&amp;post=629&amp;subd=samser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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