At 65, modern Israel is falling short of Zionism’s most basic goal By Matt Hill, Tuesday 16 April 2013 Soon after the founding of Israel in 1948, a lady newly arrived from Poland was standing outside a cinema in Haifa. When she saw a young soldier walking up to the ticket booth, she froze. …
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Apr 13 2013
A tale of two ghosts
A tall tale, by Monsieur d’Nalgar, inspired by reading this rubbish: https://levantium.com/2013/04/10/admonitions-of-sol-alinsky/ Everyone agreed afterwards that it was likely the strangest prayer meeting what ever done was. It happened during one cold winter evening at the First Tally-ho Taliban Church of Self-righteous Regurgitants, not long after they had locked and bolted the big pine doors, …
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Apr 02 2013
Seeds of apathy and evil that were sown
Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war By Gideon Levy, Mar.31, 2013 She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have all of you gone crazy? Who knows what he had in his house, maybe there were …
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Mar 31 2013
Like selling Bibles to believers
Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia By Nathan Lean, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended …
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Mar 30 2013
Israel was the main issue
The Neocons Won By Gary Leupp, Weekend Edition March 29-31, 2013 Reading an assortment of commentaries (“retrospectives”) on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, and onset of the horrific occupation, I find most center their discussion on the now almost universally conceded fact that the war was based on false pretexts. …
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Mar 17 2013
The very idea
On Questioning the Jewish State By Joseph Levine, March 9, 2013, 7:30 pm I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.” Now anyone who has debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have encountered this …
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Mar 16 2013
What was common was humanity
Rachel Never Died By Aisha Aijaz, Mar 16th, 2012 Rachel Corrie, beautiful soul, born in Olympia, Washington was no ordinary child, no ordinary 23 year old student and no ordinary human being. And people, who are extraordinary, never die. They live for ever in the hearts and minds of their followers. They give direction …
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