Aug 31 2015
Kamal Salibi: Scholar and teacher regarded as one of the foremost historians of the Middle East By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 07 September 2011 Almost two decades ago, recording a BBC radio programme on Islam, I dropped by the American University of Beirut to interview an old Christian Protestant friend, Kamal Salibi. I asked …
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Aug 06 2015
Obama Isolates Netanyahu as Head of Warmongers By Barak Ravid, Aug 06, 2015 12:34 AM WASHINGTON – Some 200 people gathered at a plaza named for Saudi King Salman at American University in Washington on Wednesday and waited for U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on the nuclear deal reached last month with Iran. A …
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Aug 05 2015
The Problem With Netanyahu’s Response to Jewish Terror By J.J. Goldberg, August 4, 2015 When you leave Jerusalem’s Western Wall plaza through the Dung Gate out of the Old City, your gaze turns naturally southward toward another hill glimmering in the distance, across the Valley of Hinnom. Christian tradition calls it the Hill of …
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Jul 17 2015
Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …
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Jun 23 2015
In Israel, we walk amongst killers and torturers By Amira Hass, Jun. 22, 2015 12:48 AM In our homes, our streets and our places of work and entertainment, there are thousands of people who killed and tortured thousands of other people or supervised their killing and torture. I write “thousands” as a substitute for the vaguer …
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May 17 2015
Sheldon Adelson Turns Israel Into ‘The Walking Dead’ By Eli Valley, May 14, 2015 http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121789/sheldon-adelson-turns-israel-walking-dead or http://bit.ly/1FitBKv
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Apr 04 2015
After lurking in the shadows and watching this unfold (and yet still not knowing what [the Palestinian in Nazareth] wrote that was its catalyst), I guess I’ll throw in my two cents’ worth… The proverbial elephant in the so-called “Holy Land” room is the diaspora Palestinians, who for 70 years and now in their third …
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