Category: Israel

Isis Nassar

A legacy of light from the sorrow of death By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 16 April 2011 … There are some individual things in life so terrible, so unspeakable, so hideous that ordinary language no longer works. A few days ago, Isis Nassar, a 54-year-old British-Lebanese artist, a woman who paints portraits and landscapes filled with …

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Amnesty International @ 50

Amnesty International posters – in pictures The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011 Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best… La Colombe et le Prisonnier, 1959 A poster with an image donated to Amnesty by Pablo Picasso Prisoner of Conscience, 1969 (Netherlands) Designed by Joop Lieverst, a …

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Does any of this sound familiar?

Voices of protest that deserve to be listened to, not sneered at By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 28 March 2011 … My husband, daughter and I should have joined fellow-citizens who marched on Saturday against the cuts demanded by fundamentalist, doctrinaire Tories and their helpful little Lib Dem friends. But I had earlier agreed to speak …

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Breaking (the) news

Let the images of war speak for themselves By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 2 April 2011 … I hate being called a war reporter. Firstly, because there is an unhappy flavour of the junkie about it. Secondly, because you cannot report a war without knowing the politics behind it. Could Ed Murrow or Richard Dimbleby have covered …

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Sorry means never

It’s Blair I feel really sorry for By Mark Steel, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 … Isn’t it marvellous that all these governments are determined to do “something” about Colonel Gaddafi? For example Hillary Clinton said she supported military action once the Arab League – made up of countries such as Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Saudi …

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Worth more than boys

The sanctity of the soaring Qassam By Amira Hass, 00:56 23.03.11 … The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas’ military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn’t forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were …

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Morocco to Mesopotamia

Right across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 … In the dying days of the Ottoman empire, American diplomats – US consuls in Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and other cities – NGOs across the region and thousands of American missionaries, pleaded with the State Department and with …

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