Jun 17 2011
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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Jun 17 2011
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 07 2011
The people vs The President By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 … Syria’s revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed insurrection, with previously peaceful demonstrators taking up arms to fight their own army and the “shabiha” – meaning “the ghosts”, in English – of Alawi militiamen who have …
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May 29 2011
Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? By Robert Fisk, 30 May 2011 … This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS …
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May 27 2011
A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 28 May 2011 … I went to see Munib Masri in his Beirut hospital bed yesterday morning. He is part of the Arab revolution, although he doesn’t see it that way. He looked in pain – he was in pain – with a …
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May 23 2011
Nakba day: we waited 63 years for this By Karma Nabulsi, Thursday 19 May 2011 … It was the moment for which we had all been holding our breath for decades – for 63 years to be precise. Palestinians everywhere watched the unfolding scene transfixed and awed. The camera followed the movements of a small …
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May 23 2011
A perspective on Obama’s speech on Thursday, from a Norwegian friend in Beirut… – Monsieur d’Nalgar Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Obama’s speech Dear friends, This comes to you from the noisy-as-ever Beirut. After days of dull, miserably hot weather, with the skies full of the dust of Gaddafi’s desert (occasionally …
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