2012 archive

For 64 years

As the ‘gates of hell’ open once more in the Middle East, these old journalistic clichés won’t do

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 18 November 2012   Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root…  [more]

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To break the Palestinians

A Pillar Built on Sand

By 16 November 2012   In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by…  [more]

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Our chances of survival

Life goes on in Gaza, where no place is safe

By Samah Sabawi, November 17, 2012 12:00AM   A bomb falls close to our neighbourhood in Gaza; I check Facebook to see if everyone has survived. A young cousin, Nihal,…  [more]

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Kook

We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action!

By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012   The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation…  [more]

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Suffused with schadenfreude

Reputation, Reputation, Reputation

By Maureen Dowd, November 13, 2012   As Lyndon Johnson said, the two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex. Macbeth kills a king out of envy. Egged on by an envious Iago, Othello smothers…  [more]

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Fire from below

Mr. President, remember me? It’s Bill Ayers

By Bill Ayers, Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 02:00 PM CST   I have a backpack filled to overflowing with grievance and discontent, dissent and demand, as well as wild hopes and radical aspirations:…  [more]

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They returned a new son to us

Before the 1967 lines retire, too

By , Nov.13, 2012 4:33 AM   On Saturday afternoon light rain greeted the long column of cars crawling through the narrow lanes of the Palestinian village of Jayus in the heart…  [more]

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