Dec 21 2013
Oy Vey Maria! The Virgin Birth as Mistake, Marketing, and Major Distraction By Rev. David Felten, 12/20/2013 1:16 pm There really is something about Mary. Catholics aren’t the only ones who harbor a measure of devotion to Jesus’ mother that can sometimes border on the fanatic. But Mary can be a bit of problem. …
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Dec 10 2013
The ‘long journey’ to Palestine By Ghada Karmi, 09 Dec 2013 12:32 This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a legacy of compassion for all who suffered injustice, not least the Palestinians. He spoke about the …
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Dec 08 2013
An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013 Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …
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Dec 07 2013
Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …
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Dec 06 2013
Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours By Marwan Barghouti, 06 Dec 2013 “During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison …
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Nov 23 2013
UNICEF isn’t anti-Semitic By Gideon Levy, Mar. 10, 2013 2:45 AM It has already been met here with a typical shrug of the shoulders, the report by the United Nations Children Fund declaring that Palestinian children detained by the Israel Defense Forces are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law. Now it’s …
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Nov 17 2013
George W Bush’s new ‘crusade’: converting Jews to Christianity By Andrew Brown, November 14, 2013 Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for …
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