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	<description>Welcome to AriRusila&#039;s BalkanPerspective - a personal perspective on events in western Balkans.  Topics of interest: Serbia, Kosovo province, EU enlargement, ICO/EUSR, Eulex, UN peacekeeping operations, western Balkans, crisis management</description>
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		<title>End Game Approaches on Nuclear Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the start of 2012 the spotlight on Iran and for good reason. Today the entire region is now on tenterhooks for the next move, with US, Iranian and Gulf armies on the highest war alert. Earlier the main scenario was that Israel would make an preventive limited air strike to Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2012/01/10/end-game-approaches-on-nuclear-iran/</link>
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		<title>NIOD Report on Srebrenica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous articles ( “Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed” – Finally a Critical Documentary about Srebrenica Tragedy and Media War of Yugoslav Secession continues ) I covered issues which are challenging the “official” picture about Srebrenica massacre. As expected there is a heated debate in different forums about events itself and about right to show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/12/07/niod-report-on-srebrenica/</link>
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		<title>Media War of Yugoslav Secession continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[”Who needs facts if a good story is available?” (Ari Rusila) A few weeks ago I promoted new Srebrenica documentary film Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed . Everybody was not happy about critical view of documentary. E.g the Norwegian Helsinki Committee made official complaint to Norwegian Broadcasting Council and Press Complaints Commission. This is not surprising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/11/06/media-war-of-yugoslav-secession-continues/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed&#8221; – Finally a Critical Documentary about Srebrenica Tragedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you want to use a word &#8220;genocide&#8221; (for Srebrenica) &#8211; then OK, but we need a new word to replace the old &#8220;genocide&#8221; word&#8230;&#8221; (Noam Chomsky) Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed a Norwegian documentary film directed by Ola Flyum and David Hebditch is now free to watch in Youtube. The film approaches Srebrenica tragedy from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/09/25/srebrenica-a-town-betrayed-%e2%80%93-finally-a-critical-documentary-about-srebrenica-tragedy/</link>
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		<title>After 9/11 – The Bottom Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While soap opera on the WTC square is over again it might be time to make a cool assessment – what is the bottom line behind correct statements, condolences and sentimental sob stories. It is understandable that sc human interest aspect gets the main role in headlines, it as well conspiracy theories are good marketing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/09/18/after-911-%e2%80%93-the-bottom-line/</link>
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		<title>R2P vs Facades of Interventions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a relatively new international security and human rights norm to address international community&#8217;s failure to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.  When and where to intervene has came more and more actual question during last decades in western foreign policy.  The wars in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/09/07/r2p-vs-facades-of-interventions/</link>
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		<title>Sinai emerged as new front in Israeli-Palestinian conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides political pressure due the Palestinians&#8217; upcoming bid for statehood at the U.N. in September, Israel is suffering heaviest bombardments since Operation Cast lead in early 2009. Over 150 Qassam and Grad rockets has been fired at Israeli communities since last Thursday when Palestinian terrorists implemented a terrorist attack via Sinai in Southern Israel near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/08/27/sinai-emerged-as-new-front-in-israeli-palestinian-conflict/</link>
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		<title>Israeli-Palestinian Conflict &#8211; Negotiation Slot for a Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Palestinians try to unite (Hamas-Fatah deal) and promote their case in UN (recognition of independence) and on the ground (flopped air-flotilla and failed Flotilla II on July) and while so-called Middle East Quartet and EU foreign ministers are making their empty outdated statements to reopen stagnated Israeli-Palestinian negotiations also in Israel there is some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/08/01/israeli-palestinian-conflict-negotiation-slot-for-a-month/</link>
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		<title>After Norwegian massacre &#8211; Way forward to prevent similar actions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“This is an attack against the Norwegian Labour Movement, against the Norwegian labour Party and its Youth Organization.” (Jan Stoltenberg/PM Norway) Immediately after the terror attack in Norway the finger of blame was at radical Islam and Al Qaeda. The first scenario was that grassroots Islamist militants based in Norway are behind these events. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/07/24/after-norwegian-massacre-way-forward-to-prevent-similar-actions/</link>
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		<title>Some framework to Syrian crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From June 10 the Syrian army began a siege on Jisr-al Shughour, NW Syria; local residents expected a massacre, proportional to the Hama massacre and in one week nearly 10.000 Syrians have escaped to Turkey. International media and public diplomacy is giving its high-flown statements about humanitarian crisis, some states may even demand to activate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arirusila.blogactiv.eu/2011/06/19/some-framework-to-syrian-crisis/</link>
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