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May 22 2011

Unbridled nationalism

Today’s borders are the ‘indefensible’ ones

Haaretz editorial, published 01:16 22.05.11 … Lots of high-sounding words were uttered over the weekend. There was U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech, in which he welcomed the civil revolutions in the Middle East and…  [more]

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May 22 2011

Struggle for political survival

Barack Obama has passed the buck on Palestine

By Carlo Strenger, Friday 20 May 2011 15.01 BST … Binyamin Netanyahu is angry, and it is easy to understand why. He is about to be the big loser in the…  [more]

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May 22 2011

What we’re working for

Our revolt is not Obama’s

By Ahdaf Soueif, Saturday 21 May 2011 … This wasn’t slipping poison into the honey; it was smearing chemical sweeteners on to toxic pellets. Barack Obama listed what he sees as his country’s “core…  [more]

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May 21 2011

Fit the battle

Which chapter from the Book of Joshua?

By Yitzhak Laor, 01:37 19.05.11 … Between 1949 and 1956, in what Israel calls “retribution operations,” thousands of Palestinians, who did not come to attack, were killed on the borders. Hundreds of…  [more]

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May 20 2011

Revelant history

Dear Friends: A propos President Obama’s Middle East policy speech yesterday,  and the vigorous reaction that it provoked from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, I have recalled an Op-Ed of mine that was published in the International Herald Tribune in November…  [more]

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May 18 2011

You’ve got to wonder

Evangelicals making tracks in Hot Springs

by Leslie Newell Peacock, May 18, 2011 … Hot Springs is the town where you gamble on the ponies, tread in the steps of gangsters taking the waters, and where a club on…  [more]

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May 18 2011

Refuse to do that

Stephen Hawking (and I) reject ‘the God of the gaps’

By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, May 17, 2011 8:44 AM … The God Stephen Hawking rejects is the God of what is called “intelligent design.” In discussing his argument from…  [more]

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