May 28 2011
Both read the bible day and night; but you read black where I read white. – William Blake No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. –George Bernard Shaw A letter to the editor in today’s Sentinel Record (May 28, 2011, page …
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May 27 2011
A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 28 May 2011 … I went to see Munib Masri in his Beirut hospital bed yesterday morning. He is part of the Arab revolution, although he doesn’t see it that way. He looked in pain – he was in pain – with a …
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May 27 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234
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May 27 2011
Kindly remain seated By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 … Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the Knesset, he would have been repeatedly cut off by members – Arabs and Jews …
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May 27 2011
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment By Peter Beinart, June 10, 2010 … In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish …
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May 26 2011
Bibi and the Yo-Yos By Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 … It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. …
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May 25 2011
Why the US applauds Israeli defiance By Rupert Cornwell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 … Accounts vary on whether Benjamin Netanyahu received 28 or 29 standing ovations during his address to the US Congress on Tuesday. But the exact figure scarcely matters. Suffice it to note that they were two or three more than the 26 …
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