Mar 23 2014
Despite the cruelties heaped on them, Palestinian refugees’ spirit has not broken By Karma Nabulsi, Friday 21 March 2014 14.17 EDT The only thing heard nowadays about the majority of the Palestinian people – those made refugees in the Nakba of 1948 – is that they must consider themselves and their fate entirely forfeited. …
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Mar 03 2014
Were it not for the French, Hezbollah would all be Syrians fighting on their own government’s side inside their own country By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 March 2014 Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East. They always have been, of course. Ever since Mark Sykes and François Georges Picot – the …
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Feb 23 2014
Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
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Jan 15 2014
Why I can’t mourn for Ariel Sharon By Amit Schejter , Jan. 14, 2014 5:28 PM Ariel Sharon’s death brings no closure for me. And I suspect that’s the case for many other veterans of the 1982 Lebanon War. For those of us who still bear the physical and emotional scars of that …
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Dec 08 2013
An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013 Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …
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Nov 05 2013
Imploding the Myth of Israel By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013 Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been …
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Jun 16 2013
Above is a tinted, enhanced version of the low-contrast photo below, taken while prowling the back streets of Beirut sometime around 1973 or 1974…
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