2012 archive

Bloody science

Sod the scientific warnings – here’s why I’ll keep on running

By , Saturday 1 December 2012 06.00 EST   Bloody science. For a discipline that’s supposed to be all about accuracy and provable facts, you never know…  [more]

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A wise and gentle old man

  Dear Friends: Reproduced below, after my personal comments, is a movie review by the much-admired critic A. O. Scott that appeared in the Sunday New York Times this past week. Featured in the write-up is a man whom I…  [more]

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A peace beyond all peace

Israel demands our support because it fights its ‘war against terrorists’ in our name

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 20 November 2012   Enough is enough. Now we have even “National Infrastructure” Minister Uzi Landau – one of my favourite dogsbodies…  [more]

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What are you doing about all of this?

Do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality?

By , Tuesday 20 November 2012 08.20 EST   Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead  [more]

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The only rational resistance

Israel’s ‘right to self-defense’ – a tremendous propaganda victory

By , Nov.19, 2012 4:06 AM   One of Israel’s tremendous propaganda victories is that it has been accepted as a victim of the Palestinians, both in the view…  [more]

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Later that night

Gaza’s 96 dead include farmers, water sellers and the girl next door

By Amira Hass, Nov.20, 2012 1:00 AM   Farmers on their way to sell vegetables in the marketplace, vendors of purified drinking water and people who just happened…  [more]

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It is that serious

Time to remind ourselves of Britain’s unhelpful legacy to the Palestinians

By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 18 November 2012   You’ve seen the pictures, read about the bloodshed, heard the accusations. The military head of Hamas was assassinated by…  [more]

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