Changing the way oil drives US policy By PJ Crowley, Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This is not about the intelligence community, but American politics, policy and behaviour. We still don’t see …
Category: Palestine
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Jul 07 2011
One man’s terrorist…
Here’s a bit of modern Israel’s ancient history, excerpted from the August 13, 1949 issue of The New Yorker (thanks, Børre). This fascinating paragraph from “Letter from Tel Aviv” begins on page 59: … “The terrible thing about terror,” said my young intellectual German friend, “is that it works. We did not like the terrorists …
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Jul 07 2011
None of this is new
The Road to “All Muslims are Terrorists” By Gefilte, 07 July 2011 … It’s been travelled before. Aside from the fact that real democracies don’t persecute their minorities, Jews are reminded in many pieces of scripture to never forget when we were “strangers in a strange land” (see the book of Exodus). Maybe this is …
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Jul 04 2011
Teabagger’s lament
Monsieur d’Nalgar’s introduction: This Fourth of July ramble, a tear-stained xenophobic summation of just about everything she thinks is wrong with America (according to her spoon-fed propaganda), appeared on page 6A of today’s Sentinel Record. Enjoy. Protect our America … Dear editor: My fellow Americans, where are our heroes? Some are easy to identify. Some wear uniforms, badges …
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Jul 02 2011
Sort of domestic terror
Creeping Shariah: Stealth Threat or Conspiracy Theory? By Gefilte, 01 July 2011 … I wanted to find out what the kerfluffle over “creeping Shariah” was all about. After all, this is a Republican worry in thirteen states which have introduced anti-shariah laws. And apparently it’s more serious than even a global economic Depression. So I …
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Jul 02 2011
Holier than all the martyrs
A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel By Sefi Rachlevsky, 02:11 01.07.11 … When King Lior parted from the evildoers, who had detained him for an hour of questioning, he turned to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was borne on the shoulders of those celebrating his messianic kingdom. Once again, he began to …
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Jul 01 2011
Sound familiar?
The invasion of Australia By John Pilger, Friday 1 July 2011 21.15 BST … The City of Sydney council has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word to describe how Aboriginal Australia was …
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