Manifest destiny and the ‘Wild West Bank’ By Tarak Barkawi, 29 May 2011 16:32 … Judging by reactions to recent speeches by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, many in the US would prefer to have the Israeli leader directing US foreign policy on the key security questions of the day. It is astonishing that the …
Category: Palestine
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May 27 2011
Wrong sort of bullet
A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 28 May 2011 … I went to see Munib Masri in his Beirut hospital bed yesterday morning. He is part of the Arab revolution, although he doesn’t see it that way. He looked in pain – he was in pain – with a …
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May 27 2011
We were there
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234
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May 27 2011
General’s son
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc From: Marjorie J Wright Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:53 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Miko Peled and The Constituency of Conscience This is an excellent short video directed by my friend Ed Sweed and created by the Alternate Focus team, with whom I had the pleasure of working in San Diego. It is …
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May 27 2011
Sit down & shut up
Kindly remain seated By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 … Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the Knesset, he would have been repeatedly cut off by members – Arabs and Jews …
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May 27 2011
A moral abdication
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment By Peter Beinart, June 10, 2010 … In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish …
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May 26 2011
It was all rather disgusting
Bibi and the Yo-Yos By Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 … It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. …
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