Apr 23 2011
300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi By Nathan Jeffay, April 13, 2011 (issue of April 22, 2011) Jerusalem — Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The New York-born Glick is getting ready to lead world Jewry in a Paschal sacrifice April …
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Apr 17 2011
In the Arab revolutions, echoes of a 100-year-old book By Todd Fine, Friday, April 15, 5:15 PM … A century before young men and women took to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other parts of the Arab world, demanding a new way of life and a new kind of politics, there was young …
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Apr 17 2011
The Power of Mockery By Nicholas D. Kristof, April 16, 2011 … The juiciest story behind the Middle East uprisings doesn’t concern Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s “voluptuous” Ukrainian nurse or C.I.A. bags of cash. Rather, it’s the tale of how a nonviolent revolutionary strategy crafted by Serbian students and an octogenarian American scholar came to challenge …
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Apr 17 2011
Note: John Whitbeck is a Harvard-educated American lawyer, now resident in Paris, whose international practice has focused primarily on the Middle East. – Ray Close Finally, some hope for a game-changing turn of events in the Palestine-Israel situation TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck … Today’s ARAB NEWS editorial, transmitted below, notes, with justified optimism, the …
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Apr 16 2011
Arabs Give Neocons a Reality Check By James Zogby, 04/16/11 09:44 AM ET … While much of what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring” remains a work in progress, there can be no doubt that a new dynamic has been unleashed across the region — one that will have a profound impact …
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Apr 15 2011
A legacy of light from the sorrow of death By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 16 April 2011 … There are some individual things in life so terrible, so unspeakable, so hideous that ordinary language no longer works. A few days ago, Isis Nassar, a 54-year-old British-Lebanese artist, a woman who paints portraits and landscapes filled with …
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Apr 11 2011
A mission to ‘civilise’ the East, again? By Hayrettin Yucesoy, 11 Apr 2011 09:43 … As was announced recently by UK prime minister David Cameron, Britain, Germany, France and the US have begun talks to support Libya’s transition away from a violent dictatorship and to help create the conditions where the people of Libya can choose their own future. It …
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