Category: America

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 democracy.  Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …

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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 the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing …

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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 and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon (weapons that should be illegal) on men women and …

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Some powerfully stupid stuff

Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else By Ian Murphy, 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 United States. Will this growing constituency become a formidable political force before global warming decimates civilization? …

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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, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …

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Once in a blue moon PSA

I’m a smoker who doesn’t smoke By Victoria Coren, Saturday 4 August 2012   While typing this, I’m chewing a blue plastic Biro. Like a dodgy internet user, I’m typing with one hand; unlike a dodgy internet user (I fervently hope), my other hand is resting in a bowl of Percy Piglets sweets. Sometimes, just …

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Inflicted on our nation by godless leftists!

GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party By Mike Lofgren, Sunday, Aug  5, 2012 11:00 AM CDT   This article is an excerpt from the book “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted,” available from Viking.   Having observed politics up close and personal for most …

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