Category: America

Sign of latent anti-Semitism

AP bias   Why is the Associated Press so biased against Israel? Over the past few weeks, as the conflict instigated by Hamas raged, AP has shown numerous photos of the damage in Gaza. Remember the people of Gaza choose Hamas as their government! When you couple this with the considerable verbiage describing the number …

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Singapore of the Middle East

Gaza myths and facts: what American Jewish leaders won’t tell you By Peter Beinart, Jul. 30, 2014 1:44 PM   If you’ve been anywhere near the American Jewish community over the past few weeks, you’ve heard the following morality tale: Israel left the Gaza Strip in 2005, hoping the newly independent country would become the …

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Making a fetish of the word “freedom”

The United States Wants the World to Forget These Prisoners By Molly Crabapple, July 21, 2014   Andy Stepanian is one of the kindest humans I’ve ever met. An activist publicist, Andy draws attention to Americans imprisoned for their beliefs. He is straitlaced and gentle, and the only time he ever declined to buy me …

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We don’t care so much about the Palestinians, do we?

Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity By Robert Fisk, Friday 25 July 2014   Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine. And if you refer only to the “innocent” dead – ie no …

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Where self-love meets outrage

Selfies in the service of hate By Asher Schechter, Jul. 3, 2014 3:05 PM   Two Israeli girls embrace and pose for a selfie. Their hair is perfect, their makeup impeccable, and they’re smiling wide, squinting at the sun. In their done-up nails, they’re holding a sign that reads: “Hating Arabs is not racism, it’s …

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Modern ideologies masquerading as historical truths

The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war By Murtaza Hussain, 09 Jul 2013 11:14   During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population – the deliberate manufacture of new ethnic divisions. By formulating ethnic categorisations based …

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How do they get away with these lies?

Now we see how his doctrine turns enemies into ‘allies’ By Robert Fisk, Sunday 15 June 2014   How do they get away with these lies? Now Tony Blair tells us that Western “inaction” in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis. But since bombing Syria would have brought to power in Damascus the very Islamists …

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