Sep 03 2011
Calling all ultimate missionaries to Israel By Belén Fernández, September 2, 2011 at 12:31 pm … I first learned of an intriguing excursion known as “The Ultimate Mission to Israel” in 2009 while perusing an article on the website of the Jerusalem Post. The article, which outlined Israel’s sudden concern for the fate of UNIFIL …
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Sep 02 2011
For 10 years, we’ve lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 3 September 2011 … By their books, ye shall know them. I’m talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have …
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Aug 31 2011
Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls By Roman Frister, 01:05 01.09.11 … Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was “taking advantage of the …
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Aug 28 2011
Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US? By MJ Rosenberg, 27 Aug 2011 13:21 … It has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by al Qaeda terrorists. It existed prior to 9/11, but the losses that day and …
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Aug 27 2011
…stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. (from a hymn by George Bennard, 1873-1958) … For at least the last two thousand years, Jerusalem (Yerushaláyim or al-Quds) has been in the business of building tourist attractions for religious pilgrims. Shiny, hi-tech Davidson Center, not far from the spot Constantine’s mother pegged as Golgotha, …
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Aug 17 2011
Mr. Mileikowsky and the “seal of Netanyahu”: the perilous encounter between modern nationalism and ancient history By Hussein Ibish, August 17, 2011, 6:21pm … I may be trying people’s patience a little with my recent riff on nationalism in general, and particularly the Israeli and Palestinian versions, but further exchanges with some of my interlocutors, …
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Aug 16 2011
Fetishizing nationalism By Hussein Ibish, August 16, 2011 … For those in the grip of its authority, a clearheaded understanding of how nationalist ideology actually operates seems extremely difficult. All contemporary nationalisms are based on constructed and imagined narratives about history, geography, culture, ethnicity and religion. Such narratives invariably involve a great deal of what …
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