Aug 07 2012
Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing …
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Aug 07 2012
The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then …
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Aug 06 2012
White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012 We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon (weapons that should be illegal) on men women and …
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Aug 06 2012
Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else By Ian Murphy, Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 09:01 AM CDT Like a fresh-baked loaf of sanity resting on the window of human possibility, atheism is on the rise in the United States. Will this growing constituency become a formidable political force before global warming decimates civilization? …
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Aug 06 2012
Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? By Ehsani, Friday, August 3rd, 2012 Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country. How did we get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly unravel and enter …
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Aug 05 2012
Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012 There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …
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Aug 05 2012
I’m a smoker who doesn’t smoke By Victoria Coren, Saturday 4 August 2012 While typing this, I’m chewing a blue plastic Biro. Like a dodgy internet user, I’m typing with one hand; unlike a dodgy internet user (I fervently hope), my other hand is resting in a bowl of Percy Piglets sweets. Sometimes, just …
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