Category: Foreign Policy

Repellent

Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that? By Martin Pengelly, Saturday 6 July 2013 09.09 EDT   On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “After the Coup in Cairo”. Its final paragraph contained these words: Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals …

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Tools of resistance

For Palestine By Susan Abulhawa, 26 Jun 2013 17:32   For once, we won! Mohammad Assaf, that brilliant, joyful, beautiful young man with a voice from heaven sang. And we all hung onto every note, every lyric, every smile and gesture he made on the stage of the Arab Idol contest over the past few …

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Dear John

God’s Dear John Letter To The U.S. By http://www.thegodarticle.com/, 09/13/2011   Dear John and Jane Public, Honestly, don’t fret over it. I get it. Dear God, I get it. You’ve found a new god. Truthfully, I’ve seen this coming for awhile. I tried to deny it. I even tried to change it. (I have to …

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Dismal journey from defeat and humiliation

The three things that always accompany occupation By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 June 2013   On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only for Kandahar and printed on a paper of varying shades of green. At the top were …

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A kind of paranoid art

NSA to Americans: ‘All your data are belong to us!’ By Dan Hind, 10 Jun 2013 18:19   A few days ago, the Guardian published details of the US National Security Administration’s PRISM programme. We now know that the NSA is able to access personal data stored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL …

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The question of why Israel rubs

Why do people hate Israel? (a self-test) By Bradley Burston, May.28, 2013 | 8:15 PM   Every year, the BBC World Service publishes a Country Ratings opinion survey, meant to indicate which of the world’s nations are among the most popular, and which the most disliked. In 2013, as in years past, more than 26,000 …

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We live in the earthly one

An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel By Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon, May 27, 2010   In a recent public letter to President Obama, Elie Wiesel urged the President not to “pressure” Israel to cease settlement activity in Jerusalem. According to Wiesel: For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is …

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