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This morning I awoke to the sound of news and police helicopters overhead.  It has become a daily constant over the past week or so.  Just a 10-minute walk east of my home is an Israeli consulate

Five years ago today, I finished working on an essay that I began researching right around Daniel Pearl's birthday on October 10, 2003, and about a year after his murder in Karachi, Pakistan.  

 On this, the 67th anniversary of the day the Japanese launched a surprise military strike on a U.S.

A 16-year-old Arab-Israeli mother from Ramle, Dalia Abu-Ghanem, is believed by police to have been murdered by her brother, Mohammed.  She has been missing for two weeks, having fled her home due

I've blogged about the January 2008 dishonor killings of the beautiful and promising Said sisters, Amina and Sarah, in suburban Dallas (http:/

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