Category: Culture

They returned a new son to us

Before the 1967 lines retire, too By Akiva Eldar, Nov.13, 2012 4:33 AM   On Saturday afternoon light rain greeted the long column of cars crawling through the narrow lanes of the Palestinian village of Jayus in the heart of the northern West Bank. At the head of the column was a battered truck dragging …

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But when will that be?

The Israeli documentary putting military rule in Palestine on trial By Rachel Shabi, Monday 12 November 2012 07.05 EST   The Law In These Parts, an Israeli documentary awarded this year’s Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury prize, examines how the country created a military-legal system to control the Palestinians in the lands Israel occupied in …

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Cannon fodder

Veterans Day and a caution against the cult of the military By Bob Garfield, Sunday 11 November 2012 19.44 EST   The video is lovely, affecting and – considering the subject matter – reasonably understated. A 60-ish guy sits at a lunch counter when a younger man, in army fatigues, walks in and orders a …

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Before Dave fell for Paula

The Sins Of General David Petraeus By Michael Hastings, Nov 11, 2012  5:43pm EST   The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated on America started many years before the general seduced Paula Broadwell, a lower-ranking officer 20 years his junior, after meeting her on a campus visit to Harvard. More so than any other leading …

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Veterans Day 2012

Keep Sending The Checks By Stephen Orr Manning, 2011   Turn off the streetlight I’d like to get some sleep in my split-level cardboard box in the alley off Main Street USA. Just keep sending the checks. Keep your colored ribbons your certificates of praise Parades on Main Street and fine speeches. Just give me …

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You should be so lucky

My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012   Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …

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Conjuring alternate realities

Romney Is President By Mareen Dowd, November 10, 2012   It makes sense that Mitt Romney and his advisers are still gobsmacked by the fact that they’re not commandeering the West Wing. (Though, as “The Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver jested, the White House might have been one of the smaller houses Romney ever lived …

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