Category: Israel

We loved him. We hated him.

You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys By Robert Fisk, Friday, 21 October 2011 … We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more …

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Emergency Committee For Israel

Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism By MJ Rosenberg, 16 Oct 2011 10:12 … An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives …

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Very Serious Experts

The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot By Glenn Greewald, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 6:18 AM 13:02:27 CDT … The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto …

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They go into your soul

Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 8 October 2011 … So there was this chap, a bearded guy, spectacles, a settler, asking for a lift from Hebron to Kiryat Arba. And Kiryat Arba is quite a settlement, home to Baruch Goldstein who killed about 50 Palestinians before he himself …

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The criteria for service

Romney’s scary Middle East advisor By As`ad AbuKhalil, Friday, Oct 7, 2011 10:00 AM 13:15:53 CDT \ … Mitt Romney has a new foreign policy adviser. His name is Walid Phares, a Lebanese -American contributor to Fox News, and rising star in Republican punditry. Phares has had three careers and all are relevant in bizarre …

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Time to rethink your theology

My Take: Jesus would support Palestinian statehood bid By Carl Medearis, September 21st, 2011 12:27 PM ET … This week at the United Nations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to ask for recognition of a Palestinian state. If he does, the United States will veto. Why? Largely because of something we’ll call Christian Zionism, …

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What did you expect?

Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem By Robert Fisk, 24 September 2011 … So there I was, on the Via Dolorosa of course, chatting to a middle-aged guy in a red T-shirt and just a wisp of a beard with a prayer rug under his left arm. And I asked him, of course, what …

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