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• Pete Seeger's role in ending Israeli house demolitions
• Fort Hood gunman's family: America made him what he is
• Turkey FM: Israel ties could improve with Syria talks
• Wagner descendant slams 'anti-Semitic' music at Berlin Wall event
• ANALYSIS / How Israel's war with Iran will be fought

Pete Seeger's role in ending Israeli house demolitions Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:09 AM PST Anyone who owns a radio probably knows the song "Turn, Turn, Turn" (To everything there is a season) very well. A number of versions of this song have become permanent fixtures on the play lists of most popular music radio stations. Here's what the listeners don't know: every time this song is played, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions receives a few dollars, which accumulate to a "several thousand dollars every year," according to the committee's co-founder and coordinator. ...

Fort Hood gunman's family: America made him what he is Posted: 07 Nov 2009 08:47 AM PST The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. ...

Turkey FM: Israel ties could improve with Syria talks Posted: 07 Nov 2009 08:44 AM PST Turkey is ready to mediate a new stage of peace talks between Israel and Syria, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told French news agency AFP on Friday, adding he was confident that renewed talks with Syria could relieve recent tensions between his country and Israel. ...

Wagner descendant slams 'anti-Semitic' music at Berlin Wall event Posted: 07 Nov 2009 08:32 AM PST Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-Semitic" great-grandfather. ...

ANALYSIS / How Israel's war with Iran will be fought Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:42 AM PST It is precisely from the events of the passing week, which culminated in an impressive show of force reminiscent of the good old Israel Defense Forces - the IDF that carried out Entebbe and bombed the reactors in Iraq and in Syria - that Israel can glean an important lesson about the limitations of the power at its disposal. These are the limitations dictated by U.S. President Barack Obama: Israel's navy can intercept weapons shipments from Iran, Israel's Military Intelligence can expose Hamas long-range missile tests from Gaza, but at least for the time being, as long as the international community is conducting dialogue with Tehran over its controversial nuclear program, it is best that Israel doesn't do too much to annoy the adults. ...

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