Jun 30 2011
From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever! Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national movement — one that all of us have been hoping for a very long time would eventually emerge to establish once and …
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Jun 20 2011
When the Messiah comes, Israel will deport him By Bradley Burston, 11:22 06.01.11 … When the Messiah comes, he will be without papers. When the Messiah comes, he will be taken into a small room, off-white and chilled, with one gray metal chair at each side of a gray metal desk. When the Messiah comes, …
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Jun 20 2011
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Jun 17 2011
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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Jun 17 2011
Netanyahu and the Mystics of Safed By Carlo Strenger, 15:38 17.06.11 … Future historians looking back at Israel in 2011 will shake their heads with disbelief. They will note that there were voices of reason who called for constructive engagement with the Arab world; that these voices included some of the great luminaries of Israel’s …
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Jun 17 2011
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 12 2011
Tremors on mountains of tyranny By Pankaj Mishra, June 13, 2011 … AT A dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote: ”We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton.” That miraculous day finally came in Egypt …
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