Meanwhile, Gideon Levy receives a death threat By Gideon Levy, Jan. 11, 2015 3:55 AM “The European Court for Anti-Semitic Crimes. Court Execution squad. “Re: Proceedings against participants in anti-Israeli activities. “The Court has been asked to look at the activities against Israel by Gideon Levy, journalist. “Witness Number 1 showed the article ‘Lowest …
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Dec 13 2014
But this is our injustice
Marcel Ophuls, Director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ Wants to Tell Israelis Some ‘Unpleasant Truths’ By Robert Mackey, December 10, 2014 Ever since 1969, when his four-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Nazi occupation of France, “The Sorrow and the Pity,” was banned from French television, the filmmaker Marcel Ophuls has had an uneasy relationship …
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Oct 19 2014
House to house, field to field
Elie Wiesel hides ethnic cleansing behind a prayer shawl By Yossi Sarid, Oct. 17, 2014 1:16 AM Much have I learned from gossip columns, which for reasons of propriety are also called “social columns.” Without them how would we know who’s going with whom and for what gain? Before turning to the news pages, …
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Oct 19 2014
Crossing Central Avenue
Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses. My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a reminder of all the people we killed during our precious-moment wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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Oct 08 2014
Prepared, preconceived and planned
From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves” By John Pilger, 8 October 2014 In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since …
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Sep 15 2014
Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics
Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014 Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until …
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Aug 17 2014
Visions of ethnic purity and supremacy
What a rising demand for the sperm of IDF soldiers and a “fun” questionnaire reveal about Israel By Ilan Pappé, Sunday 17 August 2014 The public debate in this country about the Gaza crisis has some familiar features. The public at large deems Israel’s actions as war crimes, while the government and mainstream media …
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