Category: Culture

Sold to the highest bidder

Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead By MJ Rosenberg, 25 May 2011 15:42 … If anyone had any doubt about whether the Palestinians would declare a state in September, they can’t have them now. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to Congress that essentially was a series of insults to Palestinians and every insult …

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Predictable confession

Is this President still worthy of the hope we pinned on him? By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 23 May 2011 … President Obama arrives for a state visit to Britain this week, and there is much excitement at my gym where I am wearing my Obama T-shirt, his face on my chest as I wheeze and …

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No such thing

From the lying lips of Mike Huckabee (a likeable liar), a man who has known Palestinians, who has children who were educated by a Palestinian:  “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.”  Haram… – Monsieur d’Nalgar [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg

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What we’re working for

Our revolt is not Obama’s By Ahdaf Soueif, Saturday 21 May 2011 … This wasn’t slipping poison into the honey; it was smearing chemical sweeteners on to toxic pellets. Barack Obama listed what he sees as his country’s “core interests” in my country Egypt and my region; his country’s “core principles” governing how it will …

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Fit the battle

Which chapter from the Book of Joshua? By Yitzhak Laor, 01:37 19.05.11 … Between 1949 and 1956, in what Israel calls “retribution operations,” thousands of Palestinians, who did not come to attack, were killed on the borders. Hundreds of others, probably fewer, who came to kill or steal or take what was theirs, were also …

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You’ve got to wonder

Evangelicals making tracks in Hot Springs by Leslie Newell Peacock, May 18, 2011 … Hot Springs is the town where you gamble on the ponies, tread in the steps of gangsters taking the waters, and where a club on one of its most busy streets advertises “Strip Karaoke.” Hot baths, massages, the pleasures of the …

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Refuse to do that

Stephen Hawking (and I) reject ‘the God of the gaps’ By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, May 17, 2011 8:44 AM … The God Stephen Hawking rejects is the God of what is called “intelligent design.” In discussing his argument from his book, The Grand Design, he says he rejects “belief in an omniscient Creator whose hands …

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