My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012 Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …
Category: The Middle East
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Nov 06 2012
Oh ga-lory!
Well, we finally did it. My wife and I decided to go see the most wholly reverend Dwain Miller of Eldorado, Arkansas, in the flesh. We have just returned and I have three words of prophecy for you: OH-MY-GAWD! First of all, let me say that the Glory Barn regulars are the salt of …
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Nov 01 2012
Don’t want your life
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Oct 28 2012
A fact beyond peradventure
Whichever of Obama or Romney wins, US dealings with the Arab world will change By Robert Fisk, Sunday 28 October 2012 After last week’s Obama-Romney love-fest for Israel, the Arabs have been slowly deciding which of the two men would be best for the Middle East. It looks like Barack Obama is their man; …
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Oct 23 2012
American exceptionalism in action
Jordan through evangelical Christian eyes – Disneyland with conversions By Becky Garrison, Tuesday 23 October 2012 03.30 EDT I took a press trip round Jordan with a group of mostly evangelical Christian writers from the US last month. I had visited before, with a largely Catholic and Anabaptist group, who had seen their visit …
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Oct 21 2012
Feeding the bigotry of the racists
Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Thursday 18 October 2012 07.57 EDT As America’s pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man. But the respect he has gained as a man of unflinching, unerring principles has been severely …
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Oct 02 2012
More artfully than Izvestia ever did
New York Times covers Morsi’s U.N. speech but refuses to mention Palestine By Paul Woodward, September 27, 2012 Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, gave an historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. The focus of Morsi’s speech was Palestine — yet you wouldn’t know it if you read the New York …
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