Mar 13 2011
You can put a mask on the Palestinian wild beast, such as a speaker who speaks fluent English. You can put it in a three-piece suit and a silk tie. But once in a while – when the moon is born, when a raven defecates on the head of a howling jackal, or when the …
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Mar 12 2011
Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 12 March 2011 … To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home. A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. “He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the big …
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Mar 11 2011
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
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
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
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
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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