Jul 04 2014
Berlin, 1933 and Jerusalem, 2014: When racist thugs are on the prowl By Chemi Shalev, Jul. 2, 2014 8:10 PM On March 9, 1933, brown-shirted Sturmabteilung went on a rampage. “In several parts of Berlin a large number of people, most of whom appeared to be Jews, were openly attacked in the streets and …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/07/04/the-historical-association-was-automatic/
Jul 03 2014
Israeli teenagers’ funeral: It is obscene when either side kills children – not only Palestinians By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 1 July 2014 Three Israeli teenagers killed by Palestinians. Vicious, cruel, unforgivable. True. At least 37 Lebanese children killed by Israel. Regrettable, unfortunate, but the ultimate fault of “terrorists”. Untrue. The slaughter of the children …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/07/03/and-land-unthieved/
Jul 03 2014
Benjamin Netanyahu’s lack of mercy is encouraging Israelis to take matters into their own hands By Mira Bar Hillel, Thursday 3 July 2014 When Lee Rigby was brutally murdered in Woolwich just over a year ago the Met Police took care to wound rather than kill Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebolawe although they were …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/07/03/only-one-side-has-the-big-guns/
Jul 03 2014
Selfies in the service of hate By Asher Schechter, Jul. 3, 2014 3:05 PM Two Israeli girls embrace and pose for a selfie. Their hair is perfect, their makeup impeccable, and they’re smiling wide, squinting at the sun. In their done-up nails, they’re holding a sign that reads: “Hating Arabs is not racism, it’s …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/07/03/where-self-love-meets-outrage/
Jun 22 2014
A successful caliphate in six simple steps By Khaled Diab, Tuesday 17 June 2014 To the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), I understand you wish to restore the caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But are you sure this is really what you want? As a secular, liberal Arab living in the …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/06/22/not-the-here-and-now/
Jun 20 2014
The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war By Murtaza Hussain, 09 Jul 2013 11:14 During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population – the deliberate manufacture of new ethnic divisions. By formulating ethnic categorisations based …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/06/20/modern-ideologies-masquerading-as-historical-truths/
Jun 17 2014
Now we see how his doctrine turns enemies into ‘allies’ By Robert Fisk, Sunday 15 June 2014 How do they get away with these lies? Now Tony Blair tells us that Western “inaction” in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis. But since bombing Syria would have brought to power in Damascus the very Islamists …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2014/06/17/how-do-they-get-away-with-these-lies/
