Feb 24 2013
War on terror is the West’s new religion By Robert Fisk, Sunday 24 February 2013 Mohamed al-Zawahiri, younger brother of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman, made a particularly intriguing statement in Cairo last month. Talking to that wonderful French institution Le Journal du Dimanche about Mali, he asked the paper to warn France “and …
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Feb 22 2013
Israel’s Script Turns Sour By Lisa Goldman, February 22, 2013 For years, Paul Newman and his blue eyes shaped America’s perception of Israel. Newman starred in Exodus, a 1960 Hollywood blockbuster set in 1947, the final year of the British mandate in Palestine. The film depicts Ari Ben Canaan, played by Newman, as an …
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Feb 09 2013
O to have been born a Jew By Oudeh Basharat, Feb.08, 2013 3:41 AM In Israel there is an entire population sector whose name begins with “non” – “the non-Jewish sector.” Please do not take this as an insult, dear sector, whose name is nothing but the negative of another name, and if you …
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Feb 05 2013
Marek Edelman: Last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis By John Rose, Wednesday 07 October 2009 “All night we walked through the sewers, sometimes crawling… passageways booby-trapped with hand grenades… gas let into the mains… in a sewer where water reached our lips, we waited 48 hours to get …
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Jan 19 2013
Is it the End of Days for Jeremy Gimpel? By Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jan.19, 2013 | 7:23 PM Until Friday, Jeremy Gimpel was just a name on a list. To be precise, he was number 14 on the list of Knesset candidates for Habayit Hayehudi, the new incarnation of the National Religious Party headed by …
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Jan 12 2013
I do have another country By Ithamar Handelman-Smith, Jan.10, 2013 | 2:23 PM Russian-born Hebrew-language writer Yosef Haim Brenner said, “There is no other country” than Israel. But in reality, there are plenty of other countries. These are the facts: The majority of Jews in the world live outside the State of Israel. Nearly three-quarters …
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Jan 12 2013
‘Death of a Prisoner’ By Laura Poitras, January 10, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo When President Obama pledged to close the Guantánamo Bay prison on his first day in office as president in 2009, I believed the country had shifted direction. I was wrong. Four years later, President Obama has not only institutionalized Guantánamo and all …
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