A right to return By Jody McIntyre, Monday, 16 May 2011 at 3:29 pm … No amount of time can make an injustice legitimate. No amount of oppression can make a people forget. Sunday, May 15th 2011 marked the 63rd anniversary of al-Nakba, or the catastrophe, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians from …
Category: Israel
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May 15 2011
Islamophiliac?
Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand? By Robert Chalmers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 … Among the many new things I have learnt from the work of Pamela Geller is that President Obama reputedly used to knock around with a crack whore. “That,” the author, blogger and broadcaster insists, “is not what I said. …
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May 15 2011
A short history of catastrophe
The Nakba: Catalyst for pan-Arabism By Lamis Andoni, 13 Jul 2009 07:22 … One of the narratives often repeated in the West is that the Arab states sent their armies to crush the nascent state of Israel in 1948. But by miracle and might, the tiny entity emerged victorious over “the organised armies” of seven Arab …
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May 14 2011
Yes we apparently cannot
Obama’s Middle East Cluelessness By Scott MacLeod, 05/13/11 02:55 PM ET … Friday’s announcement of George Mitchell’s planned resignation as the U.S. mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict appears to be yet another sign of the disarray and failure in President Obama’s handling of the Middle East. Recently, two articles provided a troubling inside look at …
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May 12 2011
No longer funny
May 21, 2011: Harold Camping and the apocalypse of my youth By Jason Boyett, 08:35 AM ET, 05/12/2011 … Harold Camping, the 89 year-old Christian radio broadcaster, has announced that the “rapture” of Christian believers will throw the world into chaos on May 21, 2011, followed five months later by the total destruction of the …
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May 11 2011
House of cards
End times theology: an insider’s guide By Brian McLaren, May 10, 2011 1:08 PM … I grew up in a Christian tradition (a young one, actually, having started in the 1830’s) called Dispensationalism. Although we shied away from predicting specific dates, we sang and preached and even made scary movies about the coming “Rapture,” Great Tribulation, …
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May 09 2011
Occupation has no future
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-G5D7bLx1s[/tube] THE LATEST FILM FROM UPHEAVAL PRODUCTIONS… In the Fall of 2009 a group of US veterans and war resisters traveled to Israel/Palestine to meet with their Israeli counterparts in an effort to strengthen connections and share experiences. Occupation Has No Future uses this trip as a lens to study Israeli militarism, examine the occupation …
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