May 27 2011
Kindly remain seated By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 … Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the Knesset, he would have been repeatedly cut off by members – Arabs and Jews …
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May 26 2011
Bibi and the Yo-Yos By Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 … It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. …
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May 23 2011
Time for Netanyahu to ditch his do-nothing policy By Richard Cohen, Monday, May 23, 6:39 PM … Every man has a father, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what has become Israel. He is a historian …
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May 23 2011
From the lying lips of Mike Huckabee (a likeable liar), a man who has known Palestinians, who has children who were educated by a Palestinian: “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.” Haram… – Monsieur d’Nalgar [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg
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May 23 2011
Netanyahu and the one-state solution By Neve Gordon, 23 May 2011 14:43 … Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US legislators on Tuesday. He will, no doubt, tell members of Congress that he supports a two-state solution, but his support will be predicated on four negative principles: no to Israel’s full withdrawal to the 1967 …
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May 22 2011
Obama’s Middle East challenge By Paul Vallely, Sunday, 22 May 2011 … Contiguous. Now there’s an interesting word. You had to read between the lines to understand Barack Obama’s new vision for the Middle East. The American president began with an apologia designed to make some kind of coherent sense out Washington’s utterly inconsistent attitudes …
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May 22 2011
Barack Obama has passed the buck on Palestine By Carlo Strenger, Friday 20 May 2011 15.01 BST … Binyamin Netanyahu is angry, and it is easy to understand why. He is about to be the big loser in the diplomatic chess game against the Palestinians, who are building up momentum for a successful bid for …
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