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	<title>Michael Totten</title>
	<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten</link>
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		<title>Hell Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up early this morning, before the sun even came up, with a piercing pain in the left side of my abdomen for the fourth time this month. It was worse than the other three times, and I was pretty sure I knew what it was. I shook my wife awake and told her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/31/hell-week/</link>
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		<title>Life on the Edge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I interviewed Benjamin Kerstein and Jonathan Spyer here recently, both mentioned how life in the Levant—the Eastern Mediterranean—is lived more intensely than it is in the West. Benjamin was talking about Israel, while Jonathan was referring to Lebanon, but the feeling is similar in each country, and it&#8217;s even stronger in Lebanon than it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/29/life-on-the-edge/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Up with Turkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even close to being an expert on Turkey or what&#8217;s going on there. I know enough, however, to know I don&#8217;t like it — and that&#8217;s a shame because I like what I&#8217;ve seen of the country rather a lot. 
Claire Berlinski, however, lives there, and she wrote a compelling piece for Britain&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/27/whats-up-with-turkey/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect Iranian Storm on the Horizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Spyer is not your typical Israeli journalist and political analyst. He has a PhD in International Relations, he fought in Lebanon during the summer war of 2006, then went back to Lebanon as a civilian on a second passport.
I can&#8217;t say I felt particularly brave venturing into Hezbollah&#8217;s territory along the Lebanese-Israeli border, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/25/the-perfect-iranian-storm-on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<title>Back from the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have returned home with a massive amount of material. I&#8217;m still exhausted from traveling across ten time zones and don’t yet have the energy I need to write, so I&#8217;ll start by publishing another interview. It will be ready in a day or so, and I think you&#8217;re going to like it. Then we&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/23/back-from-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Israel Through Israeli Eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoram Hazony wrote a fascinating essay about how many Europeans view Israel, and why so many of them find the country distasteful. A sovereign Jewish state that uses armed force to defend itself and advance its own interests is increasingly at odds with the pacifistic post-nationalism of Europe. 
&#8220;If Germany and France have no right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/18/israel-through-israeli-eyes/</link>
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		<title>Some Things to Tide You Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My schedule in Israel is terrible in the sense that I have hardly any time to write anything, but excellent insofar as my time here is being extremely well-spent. I&#8217;ll be home in a week and will have a massive amount of material for you, and nothing else to do but write it all up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/15/some-things-to-tide-you-over/</link>
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		<title>The Point of No Return</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to know if Israel will pre-emptively strike Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons facilities, and possibly usher in a region-wide war the likes of which we have not seen for decades, or whether Iran will go nuclear and tower over the world&#8217;s energy-producing region as an apocalyptic-minded hegemon wielding the weapons of genocide. 
Nobody knows. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/11/the-point-of-no-return/</link>
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		<title>Hezbollah Can’t Pin Hariri Murder on Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is now officially blaming Israel for assassinating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut on Valentine’s Day in 2005. I doubt he will convince many people.
I’ve been working in Lebanon on and off for years, and I’ve never once met a single person who thought Israel murdered Hariri. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/11/hezbollah-can%e2%80%99t-pin-hariri-murder-on-israel/</link>
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		<title>Did the Middle East Just Dodge a War?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al-Sharq al-Aswat reports that Israel nearly went to war with Lebanon last week, and that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak out of it at the last minute. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true. My Israeli sources say they don&#8217;t know. Either way, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/08/11/did-the-middle-east-just-dodge-a-war/</link>
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