Before breakfast this morning, I stood on the roof as usual and watched three plumes of smoke rise from the port area to the east.

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With its location at the intersection of three continents, Dubai captures not only the shift in economic power from West to East, but also the rise of the South.

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It is also a fact that the greatest dangers facing Israel stem from President Barack Obama's rapid withdrawal of the US from its position as the predominant power in the Middle East on the one hand, and from Iran's rise as a nuclear power and regional power on the other.

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Perhaps Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis will rise to the occasion, confounding skeptics by demonstrating that a largely Arab country can inspiringly break from the Middle East's miserable history of oppression.

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That so many Americans could rise from slums into the middle class shows, moreover, that Riis' Lower East Side was filled with such virtues.

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