Category: The Middle East

Funereal pieties

Christopher Hitchens made a cogent case for war – but he was still wrong By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 29 April 2012 … There was a telling omission from the range of topics mentioned at the memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in New York on 20 April. The 30 people who spoke, mostly …

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Coordinated, systematic racial discrimination

Christians of the Holy Land By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 … A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren. It is interesting that Israel (and its advocates) …

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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: loweryj@arkleg.state.ar.us Cc: dwain@crosslifechurch.net 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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