Category: The Middle East

Climate change in Arkansas

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY … The following was just emailed to John Lowery, a Democratic assemblyman for District 6 of the Arkansas State Legislature. – Monsieur d’Nalgar … From: [Jacques d’Nalgar] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Climate change in Arkansas April 26, 2012 The honorable Representative John Lowery Arkansas State Legislature, …

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Imagine an Arab’s point of view

Perhaps we should all move to Ohio Maher Mughrabi, April 24, 2012 – 5:45PM … “After the Holocaust, many Jews felt that they needed a  state of their own in order to provide security for the Jewish people. In 1948,  the state of Israel was formed. Many Arabs disagreed with this action. Identify  two perspectives …

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Brobdingnagian quantity of evidence

“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job By Laura Miller, Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 03:00 PM CDT … In the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching for three Middle Eastern men supposedly seen fleeing the scene. True, this was just two years …

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Stars of David. Everywhere.

Being a Jew in Palestine By Beth Miller, April 20, 2012 … The first people I told were Safa and Imad. Good friends, they lived near me  in the Aida Refugee Camp and invited me for lunch every Friday. I knew they were  religious Muslims. Imad had told me that Israeli soldiers had killed his …

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Gruesome binational reality

Two-state solution loses its champion By Hugh Naylor, Apr 13, 2012 … The spines of the books that bear Sari Nusseibeh’s name are testimony to the cause he once championed. There is Palestine: A State is Born, published in 1990. A year later, it was No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution of the Israeli-Palestinian …

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When the ground is burning

Israel is paranoid about pro-Palestinian activists By Gideon Levy, 01:43 12.04.12 … And with what shall we frighten the Israeli public in advance of the seventh day of Passover? How will we provide the dose of fear to which it has long since become addicted? After a week of a quiet and safe vacation, we …

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We need independence

Palestinians need freedom in Jerusalem, not Israeli permits By Hanan Ashrawi, 23:04 11.04.12 … It is Easter in Jerusalem. Newspaper pictures show scenes of Christians from all over the world celebrating and commemorating this holy occasion, with processions, special services and prayers. While most come freely with passports and tourist visas, the indigenous Christian population, …

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