Nir’s Notes

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Mixed Signals

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Palestinian Authority

April 06, 2004, 8:54 a.m. A good guy gets turned away. By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck On April 1, following a lengthy probe, the European Union concluded that funds it provided to the Palestinian Authority between 2000 and 2002 had not been used to finance terrorist attacks against Israel. The ruling was immediately criticized [...]

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The Lebanese Test

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Lebanon, Middle East

By Nir Boms and Leon Saltiel FrontPageMagazine.com | September 7, 2006 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan seemed particularly satisfied at the press conference in Brussels when the foreign ministers of the 25 European Union member states committed to contribute more that half of the 15,000 soldiers of the revamped UN force in Lebanon. Apart from [...]

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