The IDF’s masquerade in Hebron By Alon Idan, 01:57 10.03.11 … A walk through Hebron sends you into deep despair. Near the Cave of the Patriarchs, at the end of the plaza surrounded by a low fence, you see destruction and ruin, and especially the inconceivable segregation of the populations. Four children, maybe eight …
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Mar 11 2011
Another brick
Tear down this Israeli wall By Roger Water, Friday 11 March 2011 21.30 GMT … In 1980, a song I wrote, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being used by black South African children to advocate their right to equal education. That apartheid government imposed a …
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Mar 10 2011
Encumbered with help
The Embarrassments of Empire By David Bromwich, Professor of Literature at Yale Posted: March 10, 2011 03:16 PM Crossposted with TomDispatch.com … From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should …
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Mar 05 2011
Mirror by proxy
Decline and fall of Israel’s Messianic politics By Carlo Strenger, published 17:36 04.03.11 … Benjamin Netanyahu, very belatedly, has decided to confront the settlers on a limited scale, and their reaction has been violent. At some point an open conflict with the national-religious movement will be inevitable, because Israel will end the occupation either on …
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Feb 27 2011
The little children died
Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare By Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2011 The Arab revolution is consigning skip-loads of articles, books and speeches about the Middle East to the dustbin of history. In a few months, readers will go through libraries or newspaper archives and wonder how so many who …
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Feb 20 2011
Reactive dissonance
A diet too-long confined to nothing but the thin soup of Fox News has unfortunate consequences. Among them is acute cognitive indigestion when cherished beliefs are challenged by contrary points of view. Such were the symptoms that manifested themselves yesterday. [Jane], a relative newcomer to an ongoing email discussion of Middle Eastern realities (between ex-expats who once lived “over there”), has …
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Feb 19 2011
Mahfouz’s prophesy
Note: Raouf is a dear friend. It is very likely our paths crossed in Lebanon, in the early 1960s. We reconnected, after more than 30 years, on the eve of my son’s college education at the same institution where Dr. Halaby now professes… – Monsieur d’Nalgar Mahfouz’s Prophesy By Raouf J. Halaby, February 15, 2011 … During …
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