Word: easternism
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...about €570 billion ($720 billion) in paper money, which means, for the first time, another currency outweighs the dollar beyond U.S. borders. The euro's use is encouraged in developing-world countries that do business in Europe, so it's easy to move dirty cash through them. Try Eastern Europe. Try the Balkans. Try Africa. Try the Middle East and the gulf states. With 388 million of those €500 notes floating around, it's not by accident that they make up just over one-third of the total value of all euro notes. The ecb issues them...
...LEAVING SOLDIERS IN THE WEST BANK after any withdrawal, Israel might hope to guarantee security on its eastern border. But the same tactic wouldn't work to the north; nobody is going to countenance Israel's occupying a swath of southern Lebanon again (as it did from 1982 to 2000) to deny Hizballah room from which to fire its rockets--least of all Israelis themselves, who are horrified by the idea of a re-occupation. That is why the fourth key to peace is to stabilize Lebanon. In part, that means propping up the fragile government of technocrats...
Michael J. Esdaile, a Canadian second-year PhD student in Middle Eastern History, sustained minor injuries and was forced to miss the Harvard-sponsored International SOS (ISOS) shuttle out of the Lebanese capital, according to E. Roger Owen, the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...Esdaile was not evacuated by ISOS because he missed the meeting at the rendezvous point,” Owen, a professor of Middle Eastern history, said Thursday...
...it’s even better when he sings, “Oh, keep your love away from me / Jesus, keep your hands where I can see,” a line as hilarious for its paranoia as anything else. Come on man, He was a Middle-Eastern Jew, not a Boston Catholic priest...