Category: The Middle East

Price tag for blood

You can put a mask on the Palestinian wild beast, such as a speaker who speaks fluent English. You can put it in a three-piece suit and a silk tie. But once in a while – when the moon is born, when a raven defecates on the head of a howling jackal, or when the …

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Fount of all terror

Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 12 March 2011 … To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home.  A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. “He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the big …

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The hallows of Hebron

 The IDF’s masquerade in Hebron By Alon Idan, 01:57 10.03.11 … A walk through Hebron sends you into deep despair. Near the Cave of the Patriarchs, at the end of the plaza surrounded by a low fence, you see destruction and ruin, and especially the inconceivable segregation of the populations. Four children, maybe eight …

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ME women

My top 10 Arab women By Nesrine Malik, Friday 11 March 2011 13.11 GMT … Arabian Business recently published a list of the 100 most powerful Arab women, which was topped by Sheikha Lubna of the UAE. A member of the royal family, Sheikha Lubna was recognised for her considerable impact in UAE business and …

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Another brick

Tear down this Israeli wall By Roger Water, Friday 11 March 2011 21.30 GMT … In 1980, a song I wrote, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being used by black South African children to advocate their right to equal education. That apartheid government imposed a …

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Encumbered with help

The Embarrassments of Empire By David Bromwich, Professor of Literature at Yale Posted: March 10, 2011 03:16 PM Crossposted with TomDispatch.com … From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should …

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The military digital complex

Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar By Haroon Meer, Mar 2011 16:11 GMT … “Cyberwar” is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought of it, claiming that cyberwar was less science, and more science fiction. Last year …

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