Category: Palestine

The ongoing business of slaughtering the other

Imploding the Myth of Israel By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013   Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been …

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Iranian nukes, murderous Arabs and assimilation

    Israel as a Totem for Jewish Identity By Lisa Goldman, Oct 24, 2013 6:26 PM EDT   Jews are smarter than everyone else. A Chinese woman who visits a synagogue is surely shopping for a Jewish husband. Pakistan has “managed to produce absolutely nothing” in its entire history [besides nuclear weapons]. A two-state …

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The end-time transfer of wealth

The Theology of Government Shutdown: Christian Dominionism By Morgan Guyton, 10/01/2013  9:48 am   On the eve of our government shutdown, I wanted to do some research into the theological roots of Senator Ted Cruz, the standard-bearer of the Tea Party Republicans behind the shutdown. I’m interested in understanding what account of Christianity creates the …

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How have we become so spineless?

On laws that must be broken By Ilana Hammerman, Sep. 24, 2013 6:36 AM   “Legally mandated destruction.” That is how Haaretz’s editorial on Sunday described the destruction of the village of Khirbet Makhoul in the Jordan Valley. “The structures in question are unlawful and were built without construction permits. The structures were demolished in …

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And from every corner choking agony

Two old radios and a clock placed in one of the corners in the main room. (Photo: Marwan Thatah)

  The Memories Museum of Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib By Yazan al-Saadi, Wednesday, August 7, 2013   In the midst of one of the many cramped and crowded alleyways of Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp, close to qa’at al-sha’ab, or the people’s hall, is a brown metal door leading to a ground-floor apartment. On the old door, …

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A period of penitential soul-searching

Wall keeping Palestinian ill-treatment out of sight is really in Israeli minds By Giles Fraser, Friday 6 September 2013 14.29 EDT   Most Jerusalemites couldn’t find Shu’fat refugee camp on the map or give you any sort of directions. Yet it’s less than three miles from the Western Wall, fully within the municipality of Jerusalem …

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Up to the very last day

Holocaust facts: Where does the figure of 6 million victims come from? By Haaretz, Aug. 11, 2013 4:57 PM   One of the most well-known, if not iconic, facts known about the Holocaust is the number of Jewish victims killed by Nazi Germany up through the end of World War II. Perhaps not surprisingly, it …

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