Jul 27 2024
Survivors Describe Horror as Israel Massacres 90 Palestinians in “Safe Zone” By Tareq S. Hajjaj, July 14, 2024 In a crater in the ground almost larger than a schoolyard, a group of young men dig through the sand and pull out the bodies. “His head is there! His head is there!” someone yells. A …
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Jun 05 2024
A very concise defense of Palestinians By Monsieur Jacques d’Nalgar, 5 juin 2024 de l’ère commune Zionists are bloody goddamned fascists… A less-concise defense of Palestinians… Leaving aside moral arguments for ending 70-plus years of festering injustice, leaving aside comparisons to South Africa’s systemic apartheid racism, and even leaving aside the ultimate irony of …
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Feb 08 2024
Zajal on Arak By Zein El-Amine, Jan 26, 2015 I remember when electricity came to my village. I must have been about seven or eight. The government installed a transformer in the village center. The thing was housed in a metal locker. The villagers called it ‘The Clock.’ At first, The Clock was a thing …
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Sep 24 2023
Dr. Jim Ragland, of Allen, Texas, died September 24, 2023 at the age of 99. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma in 1924 to James Jordan Ragland and Zelda Keithley Ragland. He was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Leola Lee Ragland, his parents, and his sister JoAnn Craddick. He is …
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Jul 29 2023
Is This the End of Bibi? By David Remnick, July 22, 2023 Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel longer than anyone in the history of the state, longer than F.D.R. was President of the United States. And yet, for …
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May 05 2023
Sunk By Jeff Stein, August 21, 2012 Gwenyth Todd had worked in a lot of places in Washington where powerful men didn’t hesitate to use sharp elbows. She had been a Middle East expert for the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. She had worked in the office of Defense Secretary Dick Cheney …
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Aug 03 2022
1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022 The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …
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