Category: Palestine

The morning after

Obama gets a kosher seal of approval By Chemi Shalev, 00:17 22.09.11 … U.S. President Barack Obama certainly never dreamt that one day he would be so warmly endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, of all people. But today, following Obama’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Lieberman was literally gushing with praise. To …

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Egging on the Israeli equivalents

Perry’s Faith-Based Foreign Policy Directive By Justin Raimondo, September 21, 2011 … If Rick Perry makes it to the  White House, what will American foreign policy in the Middle East look  like? We got a clear indication of that, recently, when he stated: “As a Christian I have  a clear directive to support Israel, from …

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Orthodox Jewish cheerleaders

Texas Governor Rick Perry: Like a Likudnik By Chemi Shalev, 23:25 20.09.11 … Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning might be excused for imagining that he was in the middle of a …

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What he must do

The humiliation of Barack Obama By Robert Grenier, 20 Sep 2011 10:40 … Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. Most likely, the moment will come just before his first head-of-state meeting in New York. Or perhaps it will happen just before his first side-bar meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu. Or then again, it may come …

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Not mere passivity

What One Palestinian Learned From Gandhi By Sami Awad, 9/19/11 12:50 PM ET … I was 12 years old when I was introduced to Gandhi. My uncle Mubarak returned from India with four big heavy boxes filled with books. All same size and shape with warn-out green covers. These books included all the writings of …

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Failures to stand up

Why the Middle East will never be the same again By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 … The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of …

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A tragedy to watch

An American veto of Palestine statehood would be a tragedy By Henry Porter, Saturday 17 September 2011 … Beneath the slogan: “Be on our side – we are on the side of peace and justice”, a couple of nice-looking young men, a Palestinian designer and an Israeli social worker, plus their children, gaze out of …

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