Dec 19 2012
Lesley Hazleton at TEDxRainier: “Muhammad, You and Me” By Garibaldi, 08 December 2012 Lesley Hazleton, one of our favorite “anti-Loons” describes herself as the “Accidental Theologist” by which she means that even though she is an agnostic Jew she is fascinated by religion, theology and faith. Her fascination with religion has led her in …
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Dec 04 2012
Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine. Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can’t they do so again? By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 December 2012 “I was born here and I have a right to live here – the same thing goes for the Arab population” On the wall of the flat is a …
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Nov 27 2012
Dear Friends: Reproduced below, after my personal comments, is a movie review by the much-admired critic A. O. Scott that appeared in the Sunday New York Times this past week. Featured in the write-up is a man whom I was once privileged to know and call a friend — Avraham (“Abe”) Shalom, a former …
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Nov 20 2012
Israel demands our support because it fights its ‘war against terrorists’ in our name By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 20 November 2012 Enough is enough. Now we have even “National Infrastructure” Minister Uzi Landau – one of my favourite dogsbodies in the Israeli government – talking about “collateral damage” and the justification for bombing Hamas’s …
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Nov 20 2012
Do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality? By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 20 November 2012 08.20 EST Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead on the cold aluminium surface of the morgue. They are positioned in such a way that …
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Nov 19 2012
Israel’s ‘right to self-defense’ – a tremendous propaganda victory By Amira Hass, Nov.19, 2012 4:06 AM One of Israel’s tremendous propaganda victories is that it has been accepted as a victim of the Palestinians, both in the view of the Israeli public and that of Western leaders who hasten to speak of Israel’s right …
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Nov 19 2012
Gaza’s 96 dead include farmers, water sellers and the girl next door By Amira Hass, Nov.20, 2012 1:00 AM Farmers on their way to sell vegetables in the marketplace, vendors of purified drinking water and people who just happened to live too close to the targets of Israeli air strikes were among the 34 …
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