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Apr.15.2011
Some people are always expecting or hoping for a war. They’re even working towards that end. When you live in the Middle East, you come to such a realization eventually.Most people are like me, however. The wars sneak up on them. They notice the signs, then they bury them because they think they’re...
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Apr.06.2011
REPRINT from November 25, 2009
Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in-chief of paranoiaisfact.com, answers readers' questions.
Dear Igor,
When the upcoming terrorist trials were announced my husband Todd rented a back hoe and started digging an underground bunker in our front yard. He's down there...
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Jul.23.2010
JERUSALEM — Palestinian negotiators said again this week they’d refuse to re-enter direct peace talks with Israel unless the current partial freeze on construction in Israeli settlements is extended when its term runs out in September.But as a report released this week by the Israeli human-rights...
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Jun.06.2010
Writer’s block has nothing to do with writing.That might seem obvious. When a writer wants to write, but can’t get anything out, he’s blocked. Not writing. Blocked.But it isn’t the writing that causes the block. Neither is it some psychological problem or an inability to conjure up the Muse of...
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May.27.2010
Malcolm Muggeridge (an old English literateur) once said that George Orwell “was no good as a novelist, because he didn’t have the interest in character.” Well, I didn’t need to tell you who George Orwell was, so you may doubt the judgment of the largely forgotten Muggeridge. But I think he was...
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May.09.2010
Hamas is steadily rebuilding its power in the West Bank, stockpiling weapons and materiel underground, biding its time for a renewal of the conflict with its Fatah rivals.
Palestinian security officials have been telling me this for some time, and they are frankly filled with fear and foreboding....
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Mar.04.2010
I have a lot of good reasons for staying in the Middle East as long as I have. While the main thing keeping me here 14 years and counting may truly be inertia, I also enjoy being an outsider, researching my Palestinian crime novels on site, visiting the Palestinian towns whose atmosphere of...
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Nov.25.2009
Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in-chief of paranoiaisfact.com, guest columnist for the Daily Event, answers readers' questions.
Dear Igor,
When the upcoming terrorist trials were announced my husband Todd rented a back hoe and started digging an underground bunker in our front yard. He's down there...
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Nov.18.2009
Last January when the news was filled with major trouble between Israel and Palestine, my niece, Grace Beeler <www.gracebeeler.blogspot.com> and I, Joan Dobbie <www.joandobbie.blogspot.com> were deeply upset, feeling the confusion between our Jewish identities (my parents, her...
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Feb.08.2009
Three young Israeli doctors-in-training (one male, two female) shared our tea time table yesterday. All are completing their senior year of medicine in Israel and, as part of their training,interning for three months at UCLA. Since everyone in Los Angeles seems to have an opinion about the pros and...
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