Dec 29 2012
The Jewish people’s ultimate treasure hunt By Ofer Aderet, Dec.28, 2012 9:12 AM “Just imagine a group of blind people who encounter an elephant for the first time in their lives. They place their hands on it and touch it in order to understand what kind of animal it is. But each of them …
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Dec 28 2012
Hagel, the lobby and the limits of power By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, 28 Dec 2012 11:43 You have to do no more than watch this attack ad produced by the neoconservative pressure group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) to understand the significance of Chuck Hagel’s possible nomination as US secretary of defence. The …
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Dec 23 2012
A word of advice about the Middle East – we’ve reached the ‘tipping point’ with cliches By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 December 2012 Remember the days when we thought Egypt’s path to democracy was a done deal? Western-trained Mohamed Morsi had invited the people to come and meet him in Hosni Mubarak’s former presidential palace, the …
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Dec 22 2012
The disproportionate value of Israeli life By Belen Fernandez, 22 Dec 2012 13:03 Following the conclusion of Operation “Pillar of Defence”, Israel’s latest bout of terror in Gaza, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Ha’aretz: Since the first Qassam rocket fell on Israel in April 2001, 59 Israelis have been killed – and 4,717 …
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Dec 21 2012
Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency By Carl Bernstein, Thursday 20 December 2012 11.41 EST So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch‘s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America’s democratic institutions on a …
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Dec 19 2012
Lesley Hazleton at TEDxRainier: “Muhammad, You and Me” By Garibaldi, 08 December 2012 Lesley Hazleton, one of our favorite “anti-Loons” describes herself as the “Accidental Theologist” by which she means that even though she is an agnostic Jew she is fascinated by religion, theology and faith. Her fascination with religion has led her in …
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Dec 17 2012
After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn’t Had a Similar Massacre Since. By Will Oremus, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at 10:00 PM ET On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By the time he was finished, he had …
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