The friction between Israel and Turkey did not begin with the cancellation of the "Anatolian Eagle" exercise this week, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave Israel a slap in the face and took a louder American slap in return.

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Sir, - For the Turkish Prime Minister to criticize the IDF punitive raid into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead is another glaring example of Islamic hypocrisy ("Ankara must decide," October 13).

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Sitting at my command post which essentially is my office and the place where Yoram and I do our podcasts, it is weirdly quiet in Tel Aviv. Everyone is well aware that a war is raging but 30 kilometers as the crow flies from my door.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians last week were a "pogrom" and that Israeli police must end "intolerable leniency" towards such violent offenders.

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German-born Pope Benedict voiced on Sunday his lingering pain over the night 70 years ago when the Nazis whipped up anti-Jewish riots in a pogrom known as the "Kristallnacht," a harbinger of the Holocaust.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish leaders are paying tribute to the victims of the Nazis' Kristallnacht pogrom on the 70th anniversary of the event at a ceremony in Berlin's largest synagogue on Sunday.

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New Writing Exercise: Write From The Perspective of a Pumpkin As Halloween Approaches

Paranoid Pumpkin A Playful (and alluringly alliterative) Piece on the Horrors of Halloween from a Pumpkin's Perspective We will never forget.

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I Am A Bahai Too

This condensed and slightly edited excerpt is from Iran Press Watch: The Bahai Community. It was published in Shahrgon, translated by Ahang Rabbani and written by non-Bahai Khosro Shemirani. by Khosro Shemirani

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Grand Ayatollah Says Bahais Should Be Protected

Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ali Montazeri has courageously called upon the Iranian government to grant Bahais civil rights.

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Bahais Have Been Murdered In Iran For 145 Years

The news from Iran is becoming more distressing daily, but what's to be expected from a country that has persecuted the Bahai Faith for 145 years when it was known as Persia?

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Khabar Publishes False, Misleading Information About The Bahai Faith

In yet another unethical and inaccurate article about the Bahai Faith, India-based Top News re-published a shockingly unbalanced article originally published by Khabar, which claims to be Indian-Americans' "passport to the American-Indian community." Some passport.

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German Attaché Unbelievably Attends Iranian Parade Advocating Genocide -- Echoes Of The Nazi Past Are Still Alive

I recently read a preposterous "story" -- not a journalistically balanced article -- that proudly proclaimed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ready to recognize Israel's right to exist.

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This is yet another gory tale discovered aftermath of anti muslim killings in gujarat which took place with the help of state government and security agencies. Killers are still roaming free and the nation shamelessly remains silent.

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Today, fewer than 400 Jews live in Yemen. Now, the homes of those who were shuttled about 1 yr ago by the Yemeni government to a protected shelter in the capital Saana are being destroyed by local Shiite Houthi militiamen who are rebeling against the government and its allies.

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Max Rosenbaum, 85, whose life was changed irrevocably after his son's 1991 death in race riots in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Crown Heights neighborhood, died Friday, Jan. 3, 2007, of a heart attack in Melbourne, Australia.

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One of the topics to be discussed at the November meeting of Middle East leaders in Washington is the Palestinian refugee issue.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran—under the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—is engaged in a major anti-homosexual pogrom.

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Guess who will be the stars at the Mumbai Madame Tussaud's?

So Madame Tussaud's will be coming to Mumbai! Can think of half-a-dozen Bombaywallahs embodying the spirit of the metropolis who deserve to be recreated in wax.

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