Feb 03 2012
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out By Robert Fisk, Saturday 04 February 2012 … If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crackpot, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is …
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Feb 03 2012
Equality for Palestinians? Israel won’t have it By Ben White, Friday 3 February 2012 07.25 EST … The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel’s robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow …
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Feb 01 2012
What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance By Naomi Wolf, Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied …
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Jan 30 2012
Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away By Philip Weiss, January 1, 2012 … For the new year, here are some prophetic excerpts from two essays of Hannah Arendt’s, collected in The Jewish Writings (2007). Please note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of …
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Jan 30 2012
Hurrah for Egypt! By Uri Avnery, 28/01/12 … THE IMPOSSIBLE has happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session. For me this is a wonderful, a joyful occasion. For many Israelis, this is a worrisome, a threatening sight. I CANNOT but rejoice when a downtrodden people arises …
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Jan 28 2012
Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor By Arun Kundnani, Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES … By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and his physician wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, have kept Gingrich in the Republican primary race, and given him …
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Jan 27 2012
The present stands no chance against the past By Robert Fisk, Saturday 28 January 2012 … The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter. And Benjamin Netanyahu has …
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