Sep 13 2011
Ten reasons Palestine is right to bring its case to the UN By Bradley Burston, 19:23 13.09.11 … There’s a certain implied danger in the idea of playing darts in the dark. Particularly when there are numerous players in a crowded room, and not one has a well-defined target. For Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestine, for Benjamin …
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Sep 12 2011
Turkey’s stance on Israel will reverberate in Washington By Mohammed Ayoob, Monday 12 September 2011 21.30 BST … Turkey’s expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, the downgrading of its diplomatic relations with Israel, and the Erdogan government’s increasingly firm position on the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara signify more than a temporary hiccup in Turkish-Israeli …
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Sep 11 2011
Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’ By Carole Cadwalladr, Sunday 11 September 2011 … Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of house an ex-president of the United States might live in. The sort of residence befitting the …
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Sep 07 2011
The imperial delusions of the United States By Robert Jensen, 07 Sep 2011 12:47 … Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 – was there an alternative response? By Noam Chomsky, 7:46am, September 6, 2011 … We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a …
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Sep 07 2011
9/11 and its great transformations By Cliff Schecter, 07 Sep 2011 15:07 … On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I …
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Sep 03 2011
Calling all ultimate missionaries to Israel By Belén Fernández, September 2, 2011 at 12:31 pm … I first learned of an intriguing excursion known as “The Ultimate Mission to Israel” in 2009 while perusing an article on the website of the Jerusalem Post. The article, which outlined Israel’s sudden concern for the fate of UNIFIL …
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