May 12 2013
An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel By Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon, May 27, 2010 In a recent public letter to President Obama, Elie Wiesel urged the President not to “pressure” Israel to cease settlement activity in Jerusalem. According to Wiesel: For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is …
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Apr 17 2013
As a Palestinian, I refuse to be tokenised and I refuse to have dialogue. By the lower case arab, 17th Apr 2013 I cannot stay silent for much longer. I cannot contain my feelings about a certain word for any longer. The ‘D word’. That dreadful D word. That deflective D word. The word …
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Apr 17 2013
450,000 Palestinian Refugees face Dire Restrictions in Lebanon By Raed Ayad, 8th Mar 2013 Within ten minutes, not taking into account Beirut’s chaotic traffic, one can travel from the Mediterranean equivalence of the Champs-Élysées to an area resembling some of the roughest slums in the world. The living situation faced by those in the Palestinian …
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Apr 17 2013
Apartheid of the consciousness By Zvi Bar’el, Apr.17, 2013 The workers at the immaculate Jaffa butcher shop had their hands full on the eve of Independence Day. Packaged trays of kebab were being panic-bought as if the Iranian bomb was already on the way; dozens of veal and lamb skewers were piled up like …
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Apr 16 2013
At 65, modern Israel is falling short of Zionism’s most basic goal By Matt Hill, Tuesday 16 April 2013 Soon after the founding of Israel in 1948, a lady newly arrived from Poland was standing outside a cinema in Haifa. When she saw a young soldier walking up to the ticket booth, she froze. …
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Apr 02 2013
Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war By Gideon Levy, Mar.31, 2013 She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have all of you gone crazy? Who knows what he had in his house, maybe there were …
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Mar 31 2013
Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia By Nathan Lean, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended …
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