Category: Israel

Pity the nation

The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …

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Connecting dots

Two days ago, Chris asked the following:  “Any good answers to the Hariri killing and the switch in emphasis to Hezbollah?  Or to what Hillary’s doing in Yemen?” Re. Hillary Clinton’s trip to Yemen, I’ve seen/read little so far except the usual fluff about Hillary falling down and about this being her “apology tour” for …

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A theory of everything

Introductory note:  This explanation of the current political scene in Israel can easily be adapted to help explain our own emerging fascism, and the rise of our own American Hezbollah, which will hereafter be referred to as “The Tea Party of God” on this blog.  The emphases in the article are mine, not Mr. Strenger’s. Here’s hoping …

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Ignorance

Why do Jewish groups ignore Beck? By MJ Rosenberg, for  Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2010 13:28 GMT … Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called “World To Jews: Drop Dead.”  Dead! She …

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A brush too broad

How I was smeared as an anti-Semite By Christina Patterson, for The Independent Thursday, 23 December 2010 … At the end of a long and exhausting year, it’s sometimes hard to know what will hit the spot. A spa break in Thailand? A month-long marathon of black and white weepies? Or, perhaps, a little surprise. …

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David Barton

The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the new mayor’s husband) for a rah-rah rally/revival to “energize and educate” Tea Party Republicans who recently routed …

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Shades of gray

U.S. Illusions in Lebanon By Roger Cohen, New York Times op-ed columnist Published: December 13, 2010 BEIRUT — Once upon a time a U.S. secretary of state spoke of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East.” That’s now the most laughed-at phrase in gravity-defying Lebanon, a country with two armies, a “unity” government too …

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