The Selective Secrecy Of Bill De Blasio By Andrew Sullivan, Jan 24 2014 @ 7:56pm If you were to describe the Israel lobby as a secretive group that enforces the policies of the Israeli government on American politicians in private gatherings, you would be called an anti-Semite. The idea that the Israel lobby is …
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Jan 15 2014
Megalomaniac
Why I can’t mourn for Ariel Sharon By Amit Schejter , Jan. 14, 2014 5:28 PM Ariel Sharon’s death brings no closure for me. And I suspect that’s the case for many other veterans of the 1982 Lebanon War. For those of us who still bear the physical and emotional scars of that …
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Dec 22 2013
The socks won’t help
And Now This Filthy Flood By Mohammed Omer, Sunday, December 22, 2013 GAZA CITY , Dec 20 2013 (IPS) – Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza’s most heavily populated and poor areas. He …
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Dec 10 2013
Eager to delete the past
The ‘long journey’ to Palestine By Ghada Karmi, 09 Dec 2013 12:32 This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a legacy of compassion for all who suffered injustice, not least the Palestinians. He spoke about the …
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Dec 08 2013
Cruelty has no geographic boundaries
An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013 Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …
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Dec 08 2013
The Last Strumpet
Doomsday theory 2014: Obama as the anti-Christ By Jordan Yerman, Dec 2nd, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos How the world will end: Not with a bang, but with a soundtrack 2012 came and went with no apocalypse. No economic implosion (we got that one a few years earlier). No Rogue Planet Nibiru. Those who were so …
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Dec 07 2013
As long as the Palestinians are not free
Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …
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