May 30 2011
Something different to remember on Memorial Day By Clancy Sigal, Sunday 29 May 2011 15.00 BST War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – President John F Kennedy I lost a friend recently with whom I’d grown up. As adolescents, …
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May 29 2011
Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? By Robert Fisk, 30 May 2011 … This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS …
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May 29 2011
Manifest destiny and the ‘Wild West Bank’ By Tarak Barkawi, 29 May 2011 16:32 … Judging by reactions to recent speeches by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, many in the US would prefer to have the Israeli leader directing US foreign policy on the key security questions of the day. It is astonishing that the …
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May 29 2011
Don Cunningham is a perennial letter-writer and apparently a reverend (see his 2007 letter), although he has dropped that moniker of assumed gravitas for his recent spate of sulphurous belchings. Apparently the foolishness about Obama’s birth certificate (and other forms of village idiocy) will not die in our lifetimes. – Monsieur d’Nalgar A letter to the …
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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
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