Category: The Middle East

Insane?

You Want to Track Me? Here You Go, F.B.I. By Hasan M. Elahi, October 29, 2011 … ON June 19, 2002, I ran into a bit of a problem that turned my life upside down. It happened at the Detroit airport as I was entering the country. I realized something wasn’t right when the immigration …

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An alliance deepened by prejudice

India and Israel: a friendship deepened by prejudice By Kapil Komireddi, Tuesday 25 October 2011 06.25 EDT … In 1974, the New York Times journalist Bernard Weinraub described India as “the loneliest post in the world” for Israeli diplomats. Having voted against the creation of Israel at the UN in 1947, India held back from …

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A debt to pay

Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 22 October 2011 … It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed in Libya on 15 …

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Death porn

Even Muammar Gaddafi deserved a private death By Mark Lawson,Friday 21 October 2011 08.30 EDT … Western foreign policy in recent years has combined with the democratisation of filmed images to create a stark new problem for media organisations: the existence of images of regime-changed leaders before, during and after the moment of death. Scenes …

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We loved him. We hated him.

You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys By Robert Fisk, Friday, 21 October 2011 … We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more …

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Emergency Committee For Israel

Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism By MJ Rosenberg, 16 Oct 2011 10:12 … An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives …

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Very Serious Experts

The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot By Glenn Greewald, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 6:18 AM 13:02:27 CDT … The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto …

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