Mar 31 2012
Watch us lead the UN donkey up the Khyber By Robert Fisk, Saturday 31 March 2012 … So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we’re going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi …
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Mar 31 2012
Words! – A Poem By Samah Sabawi, 15:29 03/30/2012 … I’ve been down this road before: Someone tries to teach me how to use words that can ‘open doors’. Offering me tips in communication. “Instead of saying ‘Apartheid’ try a ‘system of segregation’”. “Downplay the ‘Nakba’ and focus on the occupation”. And “if you write …
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Mar 28 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOpDuLEVXU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOpDuLEVXU Rethinking Zionism By Peter Beinart, Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 3:30 PM 19:26:27 CDT … I remember walking back with my grandmother one night from synagogue, past the loquat trees of Sea Point, South Africa, the most beautiful Jewish ghetto in the world. I was a kid, and boasting about the United States, the …
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Mar 27 2012
Iris Murdoch against the robots By Andrew Brown, Tuesday 27 March 2012 04.30 EDT … The Sovereignty of Good is a title very easy to misunderstand: it’s a short work by Iris Murdoch, which appears at first glance to suggest that we live in a world where Good triumphs, which is not what she meant …
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Mar 27 2012
The Parable of the Parking Lot Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 … My regular correspondent “Anonymous” has moved to America! From where s/he reports on a church with a car park so big they have to name the sub-car-parks after the books of the Bible. Which makes me muse. My immediate reaction …
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Mar 26 2012
Church’s mock raid leaves teen traumatized By Ed Komenda, Monday, March 26, 3:52 PM … MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor. They covered the teens’ heads with pillowcases and bound their hands. One man waved an unloaded gun, and another …
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Mar 26 2012
Christians Called To Serve Jewish Settlers By Nathan Jeffay, March 25, 2012 … Psagot, West Bank — It is a typical, even stereotypical, West Bank settlement scene: bearded young men pruning vines while enthusing about the Chosen People’s God-given right to this region. But in this case it is Jesus, and not Jewish identity, that …
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