Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Brooklyn Middleton http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 23:48:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Leviathan in the room: Israel’s energy pursuits brings new era of geopolitical threats http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-leviathan-in-the-room-israels-energy-pursuits-bring-forth-new-era-of-awkward-relationships-geopolitical-threats/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-leviathan-in-the-room-israels-energy-pursuits-bring-forth-new-era-of-awkward-relationships-geopolitical-threats/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:13:28 +0000 Brooklyn Middleton http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=113876 Israel barely finished reveling in its 2009 discovery of the gas-rich Tamar field, located a mere 90 kilometers off its northwestern coast, when an even greater field–with potentially double the amount of gas—was found tucked off the shore of Haifa.  The second discovery, approximately 130 kilometers off Israel’s coast, has been dubbed the Leviathan field for [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/peacemaker-to-pharaoh-24-hours-in-the-life-of-president-mohammed-morsi/feed/ 2 International community plays political chess: Gazan students are the pieces http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/international-community-plays-political-chess-gazan-students-are-the-pieces/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/international-community-plays-political-chess-gazan-students-are-the-pieces/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:26:34 +0000 Brooklyn Middleton http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=74780 The United States’ decision this month to cancel scholarships for Palestinian students from Gaza to attend universities in the West Bank was illustrative of a reoccurring theme between the international community and Gaza; policy moves predicated on political power plays are made on the daily with little regard for Gaza’s citizens. An expansion of educational [...]

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