Feb 27 2011
Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare By Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2011 The Arab revolution is consigning skip-loads of articles, books and speeches about the Middle East to the dustbin of history. In a few months, readers will go through libraries or newspaper archives and wonder how so many who …
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Feb 20 2011
A diet too-long confined to nothing but the thin soup of Fox News has unfortunate consequences. Among them is acute cognitive indigestion when cherished beliefs are challenged by contrary points of view. Such were the symptoms that manifested themselves yesterday. [Jane], a relative newcomer to an ongoing email discussion of Middle Eastern realities (between ex-expats who once lived “over there”), has …
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Feb 19 2011
Note: Raouf is a dear friend. It is very likely our paths crossed in Lebanon, in the early 1960s. We reconnected, after more than 30 years, on the eve of my son’s college education at the same institution where Dr. Halaby now professes… – Monsieur d’Nalgar Mahfouz’s Prophesy By Raouf J. Halaby, February 15, 2011 … During …
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Feb 12 2011
Egypt’s lessons for Palestine By Ahmed Moor, 11 Feb 2011 15:20 GMT Global attention is rightly focused on Egypt at the moment. Weeks after Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali withdrew his proboscis and fled to Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian tyrant and American strongman Hosni Mubarak has similarly fallen. Protests have erupted across the Middle East …
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Feb 11 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7H12cYBZ8[/tube] Ken O’Keefe‘s tribute to the revolutionaries of Tunisia and Egypt, featuring celebrations today in Gaza. Professor Lawrence Davidson Discusses Egypt, the U.S., and Israel By Kathleen Wells, J.D. Lawrence Davidson says, “Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid. When Israel assigns rights according to religion …
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Feb 11 2011
I normally don’t – won’t – re-post anything by Mr. Friedman, but in this op-ed, in a single sentence, there is a powerful warning for every oppressor of those blighted spots on this planet where people yearn for their certain unalienable Rights: “Humiliation is the single most powerful human emotion, and overcoming it is the second …
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Feb 08 2011
Ketchup Is a Vegetable & Other Republican Myths – Remember Reagan By H Scott Prosterman, Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 11:33:09 AM PST There they go again, trying to whitewash the legacy of Ronald Reagan. As his centennial approaches, Republicans are trying to make us remember what THEY want us to remember about Reagan. Mainstream …
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