May 18 2011
President’s fine words may not address the Middle East’s real needs By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 19 May 2011 … OK, so here’s what President Barack Obama should say today about the Middle East. We will leave Afghanistan tomorrow. We will leave Iraq tomorrow. We will stop giving unconditional, craven support to Israel. Americans will force …
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May 16 2011
http://www.clowncrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Forgiveness.jpg Monsieur d’Nalgar’s note — following are a few of the more interesting comments at Matthew Paul Turner’s blog Jesus needs new PR, where this image was posted today (May 16, 2011): This is the Jesus I know. Thanks for posting. – Sarah I get this sense that Osama is thinking happy thoughts of puppies in …
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May 16 2011
A right to return By Jody McIntyre, Monday, 16 May 2011 at 3:29 pm … No amount of time can make an injustice legitimate. No amount of oppression can make a people forget. Sunday, May 15th 2011 marked the 63rd anniversary of al-Nakba, or the catastrophe, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians from …
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May 15 2011
Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand? By Robert Chalmers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 … Among the many new things I have learnt from the work of Pamela Geller is that President Obama reputedly used to knock around with a crack whore. “That,” the author, blogger and broadcaster insists, “is not what I said. …
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May 15 2011
The Nakba: Catalyst for pan-Arabism By Lamis Andoni, 13 Jul 2009 07:22 … One of the narratives often repeated in the West is that the Arab states sent their armies to crush the nascent state of Israel in 1948. But by miracle and might, the tiny entity emerged victorious over “the organised armies” of seven Arab …
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May 14 2011
Obama’s Middle East Cluelessness By Scott MacLeod, 05/13/11 02:55 PM ET … Friday’s announcement of George Mitchell’s planned resignation as the U.S. mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict appears to be yet another sign of the disarray and failure in President Obama’s handling of the Middle East. Recently, two articles provided a troubling inside look at …
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May 13 2011
Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 14 May 2011 … Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that “the notion that a dictator can claim the …
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