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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Apr 13 2008
Here’s a great article about Robert Fisk by Rachel Cooke: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/13/middleeastthemedia.lebanon …an interesting paragraph for those of us who lived “over there” and still love Lebanon dearly: One of the striking things about Fisk is that he has never gone native – or, as he puts it, ‘become one of those mad loonies who go …
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Mar 23 2008
“Disturbing” is the understatement of this Happy Easter. Here are a few excerpts that really jumped out at me as I read the article (see below): He was naked, and the position he was in — his hands bound behind his back and raised higher than his shoulders, forcing him to bend forward with his …
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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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