Feb 23 2014
Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
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Feb 15 2014
Ted Cruz’s imperialist fantasy: Why his latest anti-Obama epithet is so dangerous By Colin P. Elliott, Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 08:30 AM CST In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Sen. Ted Cruz now insists that Americans are living under an “imperial presidency” because of the way that the …
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Feb 15 2014
Say a big ‘thank you’ to Martin Schulz By Avraham Burg, Feb. 14, 2014 7:25 PM A bit of disclosure: First, to me, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) is one of the shallowest people I’ve ever encountered here in recent years. Give me Moshe Feiglin, give me Uri Elitzur, give me Shlomo Ben-Zvi, …
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Feb 15 2014
The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism By Andrew Brown, Thursday 13 February 2014 08.59 EST There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up. Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s …
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Feb 09 2014
Why the Christian right’s persecution fantasies are so dangerous By Amanda Marcotte, Friday, Feb 7, 2014 07:52 AM CST Christian conservatives feel aggrieved and they want to be heard. The problem is that their specific grievance—that everyone else hurts their feelings by not admitting we’re inferior—kind of sounds, well, hard to sympathize with. They …
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Feb 09 2014
The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice By Robert Fisk, Sunday 9 February 2014 The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about this – when the women are decapitated, hanged or shot in the …
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Feb 09 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws By Russell Brand, Thursday 6 February 2014 10.05 EST Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death was not on the bill. If it’d been the sacrifice of Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber, that we are invited to anticipate daily, we could delight in the Faustian justice …
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