2012 archive

Something separate and not equal

Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One

By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012   The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli…  [more]

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L’archipel de Palestine oreintale

Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator

By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM   The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and…  [more]

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Sacrifices to the god Terminus

The Elephant in the Map Room

By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm   My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series…  [more]

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We are all victims

White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence

By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012   We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee…  [more]

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Some powerfully stupid stuff

Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else

By , Saturday, Aug  4, 2012 09:01 AM CDT   Like a fresh-baked loaf of sanity resting on the window of human possibility, atheism is on the rise in the…  [more]

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The other side of the fork was chosen

Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago?

By Ehsani, Friday, August 3rd, 2012   Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country.  How did…  [more]

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Your tax dollars at work

Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard

By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012   There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks,…  [more]

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