Jun 08 2008
Dear Janna, Perhaps the answer is to out-market the vision of what is possible vs. the vision of those things feared or coveted. Somehow, we’ve got to convince people that the alternative to fear and avoidance of insecurity is better than the status quo. When I opined earlier about my Levantine dream, I forgot to …
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May 13 2008
A friend of mine just sent me an interesting article by Ramzy Baroud, about Johns Hagee and McCain: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13720 Here’s the first paragraph from Baroud’s article: A memorable quote in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance. He writes, “They own the [holy] land, just the mere land, and that’s …
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May 11 2008
Either Prime Minister Siniora studied at the George Bush – John McSame School of Diplomacy or he is suffering profound memory loss. According to Haaretz, he has today branded Hezbollah as worse than Israel, saying “even the Israeli enemy never dared to do to Beirut what Hezbollah has done.” http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982080.html According to Wikipedia, it is …
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Apr 19 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/our-reign-of-terror-by-the-israeli-army-811769.html or http://bit.ly/btjS0r or http://tinyurl.com/3uz2fs
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Mar 13 2008
Anti-Semite. My, my, my, but aren’t we quick these days to paint someone as an anti-Semite?! As in “Charley Reese is an anti-Semite” because he dares suggest Israel’s manifest influence on foreign policy may not be in America’s best interest. As in “Charley Reese is an anti-Semite” because he reminds us of the inconvenient truth, despite systematic efforts by the Israeli …
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Mar 01 2008
On Friday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai threatened a “shoah” on Gaza in response to qassam rocket fire directed at Ashkelon. “Shoah” is a Hebrew term for “big disaster” and is often used to describe the Holocaust. Vilnai’s comment to Israeli Army Radio (according to a CNIF bulletin): “The more Qassam fire intensifies and …
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Feb 18 2008
I had hoped, in part because he seemed like a nice-enough guy, that Mike Huckabee would not descend to the level of pandering epitomized by the other Republican candidates. There were warning signs last fall, when he revealed he was getting up to speed on Middle East issues by reading books written by far-right messianic …
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