Feb 22 2013
Israel’s Script Turns Sour By Lisa Goldman, February 22, 2013 For years, Paul Newman and his blue eyes shaped America’s perception of Israel. Newman starred in Exodus, a 1960 Hollywood blockbuster set in 1947, the final year of the British mandate in Palestine. The film depicts Ari Ben Canaan, played by Newman, as an …
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Feb 09 2013
O to have been born a Jew By Oudeh Basharat, Feb.08, 2013 3:41 AM In Israel there is an entire population sector whose name begins with “non” – “the non-Jewish sector.” Please do not take this as an insult, dear sector, whose name is nothing but the negative of another name, and if you …
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Feb 05 2013
Marek Edelman: Last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis By John Rose, Wednesday 07 October 2009 “All night we walked through the sewers, sometimes crawling… passageways booby-trapped with hand grenades… gas let into the mains… in a sewer where water reached our lips, we waited 48 hours to get …
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Jan 19 2013
Is it the End of Days for Jeremy Gimpel? By Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jan.19, 2013 | 7:23 PM Until Friday, Jeremy Gimpel was just a name on a list. To be precise, he was number 14 on the list of Knesset candidates for Habayit Hayehudi, the new incarnation of the National Religious Party headed by …
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Jan 01 2013
Does Arab progress founder on an ossified language? By Robert Fisk, Monday 31 December 2012 I’ve heard all kinds of reasons for the Arab-Israeli failure to agree on UN Security Council Resolution 242 – because the Arabic text calls upon Israel to withdraw from ‘the lands occupied by Israel in 1967’ (including the West Bank, …
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Dec 29 2012
The Jewish people’s ultimate treasure hunt By Ofer Aderet, Dec.28, 2012 9:12 AM “Just imagine a group of blind people who encounter an elephant for the first time in their lives. They place their hands on it and touch it in order to understand what kind of animal it is. But each of them …
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Dec 23 2012
A word of advice about the Middle East – we’ve reached the ‘tipping point’ with cliches By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 December 2012 Remember the days when we thought Egypt’s path to democracy was a done deal? Western-trained Mohamed Morsi had invited the people to come and meet him in Hosni Mubarak’s former presidential palace, the …
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