Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state By Nick Cohen, Sunday 19 June 2011 … For a tyrant whose forces took 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, burned him, mutilated him, shattered his knee caps, cut off his penis and sent his corpse to his parents as a warning against participating in opposition politics, Bashar …
Category: The Middle East
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Jun 17 2011
Individualism amid barbarism
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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Jun 17 2011
Messianic mysticism & blind pseudo-heroism
Netanyahu and the Mystics of Safed By Carlo Strenger, 15:38 17.06.11 … Future historians looking back at Israel in 2011 will shake their heads with disbelief. They will note that there were voices of reason who called for constructive engagement with the Arab world; that these voices included some of the great luminaries of Israel’s …
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Jun 17 2011
Xenophobic panic
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 17 2011
A threat or a promise?
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST … Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish …
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Jun 15 2011
Guilt by innuendo
The sharia myth sweeps America By Amy Sullivan, 14 June 2011 … If you are not vitally concerned about the possibility of radical Muslims infiltrating the U.S. government and establishing a Taliban-style theocracy, then you are not a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. In addition to talking about tax policy and Afghanistan, Republican candidates …
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Jun 14 2011
Occupied Bahrain
I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 … Has the Khalifa family gone mad? Yesterday, the Bahraini royal family started an utterly fraudulent trial of 48 surgeons, doctors, paramedics and nurses, accusing them of trying to topple the …
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