June 2011 archive

Henry, why do you think?

The cynicism of Israeli settlement policy

By Ray Close, Tue 6/7/2011 In case anyone has any doubts about the cynical motivation that has often inspired the Israeli Government’s practice of unofficially encouraging the establishment of settlements in occupied territory as  [more]

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Take these rogues off our hands

The dumping ground for despots welcomes another

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 Saudi Arabia is a great dumping ground for despots. Remember Idi Amin? We Brits loved him once, but when he turned against us and started…  [more]

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What we have lost

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Obscenities as words of Torah

By Yossi Sarid, 01:09 07.06.11 Go to your computer right now and watch the frightening video clip posted on YouTube as a memento of Jerusalem Day (it’s called “Yom Yeru 2011”…  [more]

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Extreme recycle

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.…  [more]

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Southern weed rewind

The following comments, now updated a bit, were first submitted by email at the end of April.  They were promptly lost (raptured into the ether?) and I was asked to resubmit or write about something else.  But before I could…  [more]

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Our truth

Port in a storm

By Shay Fogelman, 12:23 03.06.11 Two months ago, the Knesset passed the Budget Principles Law (Amendment 39 ), more popularly known as the “Nakba Law.” The ostensibly procedural clause is intended to prevent institutions…  [more]

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Volatile, the pitiable zeks?

The photograph below was in newspapers around the world yesterday, part of an AP article titled “Pace of Afghanistan withdrawal undecided” by Lolita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek. In our local paper, the Sentinel-Record, the caption under the photograph…  [more]

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