Category: Foreign Policy

What immeasurable folly!

Shall The Fundamentalists Win? Preached by Harry Emerson Fosdick, May 21, 1922   One could easily let his imagination play over this scene and could wonder how history would have come out if Gamaliel’s wise tolerance could have controlled the situation. For though the Jewish leaders seemed superficially to concur in Gamaliel’s judgment, they nevertheless …

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Bane of fundamentalism

  Dear editor: Historians will surely look back on this generation as an age when ignorance and silliness trumped reason and progress.  Ours is a time pregnant with potential, yet scarred and crippled by war, greed and prejudice.  Why? I’ll lay blame squarely on the bane of fundamentalism.  Whether in religion, or politics, or the social …

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Megalomaniac

  Why I can’t mourn for Ariel Sharon By Amit Schejter , Jan. 14, 2014 5:28 PM   Ariel Sharon’s death brings no closure for me. And I suspect that’s the case for many other veterans of the 1982 Lebanon War. For those of us who still bear the physical and emotional scars of that …

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We have Jesus all over

The Muslim Story Of Christmas By Jawad, December 16, 2013   She was alone, as she was wont to do, worshiping in the eastern section of the temple. Suddenly, she was startled by a strange presence: a man with whom she was not familiar. “I seek refuge from thee with the Most Gracious,” she said, …

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I’m sorry

A Christmas apology, and the seeds of hope By Rachel Held Evans, December 23rd, 2013 03:29 PM ET   This week we celebrate Christmas, and as a Christian, I want to say I’m sorry. I’m sorry that this season has become about fights over manger scenes on public property, about complaining when clerks say, “Happy …

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The socks won’t help

And Now This Filthy Flood By Mohammed Omer, Sunday, December 22, 2013   GAZA CITY , Dec 20 2013 (IPS) – Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza’s most heavily populated and poor areas. He …

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Eager to delete the past

The ‘long journey’ to Palestine By Ghada Karmi, 09 Dec 2013 12:32   This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a legacy of compassion for all who suffered injustice, not least the Palestinians. He spoke about the …

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