Category: The Middle East

Bats in a box

First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there’s a vacancy for the West’s favourite crackpot tyrant By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 19 March 2011 … So we are going to take “all necessary measures” to protect the civilians of Libya, are we? Pity we didn’t think of that 42 years ago. Or 41 years ago. Or… …

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Why?

Unanswered questions on Japan’s suffering By Giles Fraser, Saturday 19 March 2011 … Sometimes, it is better to do without. Sometimes, want is good for you. These are the familiar messages of Lent. Allowing a particular desire to go unmet may have short-term pain. But the longer-term gain is that we get to examine the …

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Understand the evildoer

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA TEDxPSU – A Radical Experiment in Empathy By Sam Edwards, October 10, 2010 Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990. Every semester, 725 students register for his Race and Ethnic Relations course, one of the most popular classes at Penn State …

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For every child

A funeral for the State of Israel By Bradley Burston, 16:48 17.03.11 … All this week I’ve resisted putting something terrible into words. All this week I’ve been wondering why the Jerusalem burial ceremony for Ruth and Udi Fogel, their infant daughter Hadas and their two small sons Yoav and Elad, seemed so much like …

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Death as a national event

Netanyahu’s exploitation of the murders at Itamar By Nehemia Shtrasler, 02:55 15.03.11 … The horrific murders in Itamar were a crime against humanity. Entering a home in that manner and slaughtering five people in their sleep is a base, cowardly act, and it makes no difference whether the victim is an adult or an infant. …

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American foreign policy 101

AIPAC’s newest strategy By MJ Rosenberg, 15 Mar 2011 16:55 GMT … Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is being heavily criticised in Israel for his blatant exploitation of the murder of five members of one family (including three children) at the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Particularly egregious has been Netanyahu’s demand that president Mahmoud Abbas personally appear on …

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Gone or transformed

The Arab spring is brighter than ever By Brian Whitaker, Monday 14 March 2011 12.09 GMT … “The Arab world’s much-heralded collective push toward democracy is now in jeopardy,” an article for McClatchy newspapers in the US informed its readers at the weekend. The fact that autocratic regimes in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are fighting …

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