May 18 2011
Bibi and Barack By Thomas L. Friedman, May 17, 2011 … Reading the headlines from the Middle East these days — Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel — you get the sense of a region where the wheels could really start …
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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 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 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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May 07 2011
Truth and reconciliation? It won’t happen in Syria By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 7 May 2011 … If you want to understand the cruel tragedy of Syria, there are two books you must read: Nikolaos van Dam’s The Struggle for Power in Syria and, of course, Patrick Seale’s biography Assad. Van Dam was an ambassador in …
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