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Netanyahu's support may also be eroding because Israeli right-wingers have found a new champion, Avigdor Lieberman, 50. A Moldovan-born immigrant and ex-nightclub bouncer, Lieberman is denounced by the leftist Israeli press as "a racist" and a nationalist in the mold of Russia's Vladimir Putin. He wants Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or lose their voting rights; and he is demanding that borders be re-drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected...
...Terror Equation Outside of Assam, the debate over Bangladeshi migrants has been subsumed into India's larger struggle against terrorism. In a speech in Guwahati last September, L.K. Advani, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, connected the dots. "Assam as a whole is today fighting for survival," he told the crowd, who gathered as the season's monsoon floods were subsiding. "And the threat to its survival has come from a flood of another kind - the flood of illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. Now, India is facing not only the threat of infiltration, but also of terrorism from...
...female judges, the Bocuse d'Or is nothing if not French. But because it is also a kind of culinary Olympics, with teams from 24 countries competing over two days for a gold trophy that brings unmatched prestige and a 20,000-euro prize, the contest is imbued with nationalist rivalries that extend from the fans in the bleachers to the flavors on the elaborate platters. In fact, for the young chefs who compete in the contest, founded 22 years ago by Paul Bocuse, one of France's most revered chefs, navigating the tension between the desire to demonstrate...
...Bolivia analyst Erasto Almedia of the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group says automakers shouldn't panic. Morales may talk a big nationalist game, Almeida argues, but he always ends up accepting foreign investment and technological support that could give the car companies a foot in the lithium-production door. "The conditions exist for foreign investment and involvement in the lithium sector in Bolivia," Almeida contends, especially if Bolivia wants to expand beyond the initial pilot plant...
...Budanov gave his condolences to the families of the slain on Tuesday. A statement by his lawyer asserted that the former colonel - who has become a hero in nationalist circles - had nothing to do with the killing...