Category: The Middle East

The other side of the fork was chosen

Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? By Ehsani, Friday, August 3rd, 2012   Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country.  How did we get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly unravel and enter …

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Your tax dollars at work

Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012   There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …

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An Anglo-Saxon heritage

Mitt Romney’s “culture” war By Erik Nielson, Sunday, Aug  5, 2012 07:00 AM CDT   In his latest overseas gaffe, Mitt Romney pontificated on the economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians. Ignoring Israel’s role in perpetuating these differences, Romney instead offered a clear and simple explanation: “Culture makes all the difference.” These remarks, as well …

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Born through the loins of Ephraim

Mitt Romney: Son of Abraham? By Valerie Tarico, Saturday, Aug  4, 2012 08:01 AM CDT   While in Jerusalem Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Wailing Wall in a yarmulke. Was he just trying to pay tribute to Orthodox tradition or does he think he’s a Jew? Perhaps both. Conservative Christianity teaches “supersessionism,” the …

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Plant a prayer in a conspicuous crevice

The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012   The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …

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Blunt truths

Why Not in Vegas? By Thomas L. Friedman, July 31, 2012   I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi …

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Window into the soul of a man

Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012  6:08 pm   Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …

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