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Samarra siege – the unreported killing of Shia Muslims in Iraq

While international media have reported on the surge of violence which, last Wednesday – June 4^th - at dawn, has plagued Samarra, an Iraqi city lying directly north of the capital, Baghdad, in what is known as the Sunni triangle, few have actually spoken of the true nature of the clashes. (Full Story)

The Rising Power and Influence of Civil Society: Discourse from the Middle East Social Networks

by Udi Dekel, Orit Perlov

The changes in the Arab world primarily reflect processes underway in Arab civil society, resulting from the rise in power of a younger and more educated middle class population that is mainly secular and has access to new communication technologies. (Full Story)

The Chemical Attack in Syria: Different from Other Aggression against Civilians in the Civil War

by Shlomo Brom,

President Obama has decided on punitive action of limited scope and duration in order to deter the Assad regime from making further use of chemical weapons. Many commentators in Israel and abroad are criticizing him for this decision, noting that over 110,000 people, most of them civilians, have already been killed in the Syrian civil war, and the US took no military action whatsoever to stop the slaughter. (Full Story)

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