Category: The Middle East

As this nonsense continues

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? By Robert Fisk, 30 May 2011 … This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/29/as-this-nonsense-continues/

Godliness and purity

Manifest destiny and the ‘Wild West Bank’ By Tarak Barkawi, 29 May 2011 16:32  … Judging by reactions to recent speeches by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, many in the US would prefer to have the Israeli leader directing US foreign policy on the key security questions of the day. It is astonishing that the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/29/godliness-and-purity/

2011: The summer of love

Both read the bible day and night; but you read black where I read white. – William Blake No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. –George Bernard Shaw A letter to the editor in today’s Sentinel Record (May 28, 2011, page …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/28/2011-the-summer-of-love/

Wrong sort of bullet

A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 28 May 2011 … I went to see Munib Masri in his Beirut hospital bed yesterday morning. He is part of the Arab revolution, although he doesn’t see it that way. He looked in pain – he was in pain – with a …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/27/wrong-sort-of-bullet/

We were there

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/27/we-were-there/

General’s son

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc From: Marjorie J Wright Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:53 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Miko Peled and The Constituency of Conscience This is an excellent short video directed by my friend Ed Sweed and created by the Alternate Focus team, with whom I had the pleasure of working in San Diego.  It is …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/27/generals-son/

Sit down & shut up

Kindly remain seated By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 … Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the Knesset, he would have been repeatedly cut off by members – Arabs and Jews …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/05/27/sit-down-shut-up/