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Last month, a visiting scholar to Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, made what he called a memorable argument for the role of population growth in radicalization.

However his opinion is not shared by all. Mr. Kramer’s views have been hotly contested from many quarters of academia and laymen alike, who accuse the scholar of promoting genocide. Many critics have called for a complete disassociation of Mr. Kramer, by the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

DUBAI–Israeli media ridiculed the state’s intelligence service Mossad and its president who was believed to have ordered the recent assassination of a top Hamas military commander in Dubai. In late February, the newspapers published a series of cartoons mocking the way the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was carried out on Jan. 20, although the Mossad has long being a symbol of national pride in Israel for its accomplishments in clearing dozens of people deemed enemies of the Jewish state.

Ma’an News reports 18 rights groups have sent a letter, collectively, to the UN General Assembly expressing “concerns about the effectiveness of the endeavors undertaken,” in order to ensure the allegations brought up in the Goldstone report are justly considered.

In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly gave both Israeli and Palestinian officials three months to complete their own separate investigations into the alleged war crimes during last years Gaza conflict.