Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012 The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy. Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …
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Aug 07 2012
L’archipel de Palestine oreintale
Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing …
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Aug 07 2012
Sacrifices to the god Terminus
The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then …
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Aug 05 2012
Your tax dollars at work
Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012 There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …
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Aug 05 2012
An Anglo-Saxon heritage
Mitt Romney’s “culture” war By Erik Nielson, Sunday, Aug 5, 2012 07:00 AM CDT In his latest overseas gaffe, Mitt Romney pontificated on the economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians. Ignoring Israel’s role in perpetuating these differences, Romney instead offered a clear and simple explanation: “Culture makes all the difference.” These remarks, as well …
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Aug 04 2012
Born through the loins of Ephraim
Mitt Romney: Son of Abraham? By Valerie Tarico, Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 08:01 AM CDT While in Jerusalem Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Wailing Wall in a yarmulke. Was he just trying to pay tribute to Orthodox tradition or does he think he’s a Jew? Perhaps both. Conservative Christianity teaches “supersessionism,” the …
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Aug 02 2012
Plant a prayer in a conspicuous crevice
The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012 The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …
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