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From Ian: Daniel Pipes: A Palestinian Defeat Is Good for All Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was photographed on December 21, carrying a copy of Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History, by John David Lewis. In...

UN: Israel’s cement ban prevents hundreds of Gaza families from rebuilding homes BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 30 Apr — Israel’s punitive ban on cement imports into the Gaza Strip has prevented hundreds of families from rebuilding their homes devastated by the...

"Today, Peace Corps volunteers ... work with beekeepers in Ghana to expand honey production." --T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post; image from "Among the projects taxpayers paid for was an effort ... to provide Iraqi widows with fifteen beekeeping sets...

Sarajevo is extraordinary. That’s the first thing that struck me on arriving in the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina: walking along cobbled streets squashed between tall, imperial townhouses, at times reminiscent of Vienna, before emerging into fountained...

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it. What is the...