Mar 16 2011
Sharia threat bandwagon just keeps rolling on By Sarah Posner, Wednesday 16 March 2011 16.26 GMT … When South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan went on a tirade about sharia law threatening the constitution at Peter King’s hearing on “The Extent of Radicalisation in the Muslim Community” last week, he provided a telling window into the …
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Mar 15 2011
AIPAC’s newest strategy By MJ Rosenberg, 15 Mar 2011 16:55 GMT … Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is being heavily criticised in Israel for his blatant exploitation of the murder of five members of one family (including three children) at the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Particularly egregious has been Netanyahu’s demand that president Mahmoud Abbas personally appear on …
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Mar 14 2011
The Arab spring is brighter than ever By Brian Whitaker, Monday 14 March 2011 12.09 GMT … “The Arab world’s much-heralded collective push toward democracy is now in jeopardy,” an article for McClatchy newspapers in the US informed its readers at the weekend. The fact that autocratic regimes in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are fighting …
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Mar 13 2011
You can put a mask on the Palestinian wild beast, such as a speaker who speaks fluent English. You can put it in a three-piece suit and a silk tie. But once in a while – when the moon is born, when a raven defecates on the head of a howling jackal, or when the …
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Mar 12 2011
Eye of the Newt By Gail Collins, March 11, 2011 … The presidential race is barely under way, but already we have had our first Big Thought. I am speaking, of course, of Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that he was driven into serial adultery by hard work and patriotism. “There’s no question that at times in my …
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Mar 12 2011
Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 12 March 2011 … To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home. A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. “He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the big …
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Mar 11 2011
The IDF’s masquerade in Hebron By Alon Idan, 01:57 10.03.11 … A walk through Hebron sends you into deep despair. Near the Cave of the Patriarchs, at the end of the plaza surrounded by a low fence, you see destruction and ruin, and especially the inconceivable segregation of the populations. Four children, maybe eight …
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