Feb 12 2012
Will AIPAC and Bibi get their war? By MJ Rosenberg, 12 Feb 2012 12:07 … These are strange times for those of us who follow the debate about a possible war with Iran. It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President …
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Feb 11 2012
John McCarthy knows the value of history By Robert Fisk, Saturday 11 February 2012 … How come people like historical memory holes? I’m moved to ask this question by the Lebanese Minister of Culture, Gaby Layoun, who said last week that “the Cedar Revolution does not exist”. He’s decided, in fact, to erase it from …
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Feb 03 2012
Equality for Palestinians? Israel won’t have it By Ben White, Friday 3 February 2012 07.25 EST … The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel’s robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow …
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Jan 30 2012
Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away By Philip Weiss, January 1, 2012 … For the new year, here are some prophetic excerpts from two essays of Hannah Arendt’s, collected in The Jewish Writings (2007). Please note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of …
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Jan 28 2012
Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor By Arun Kundnani, Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES … By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and his physician wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, have kept Gingrich in the Republican primary race, and given him …
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Jan 27 2012
The present stands no chance against the past By Robert Fisk, Saturday 28 January 2012 … The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter. And Benjamin Netanyahu has …
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Jan 25 2012
We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’ By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 … Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, …
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