Sep 05 2010
Note: The following piece by Israel Shamir, a contemporary Israeli intellectual, was resurrected April 18, 2010 after Wiesel’s open letter appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, and New York Times… +++ Elie Wiesel wrote a letter to President Obama demanding hands off Jewish hold on Jerusalem. He recycled his own …
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Aug 11 2010
The prior entry (about the “Wonderful” poster at Maxine’s) elicited this prompt response from my also-gracious Norwegian friend Børre after I instroduced it with, “Here is a reminder that [even in the middle of Arkansas] the world’s best propaganda apparatus cannot block out every glimmer of truth:” [Jacques], I don’t disagree with your interpretation of “a glimmer of …
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Aug 10 2010
The first Friday of every month is Gallery Walk in Hot Springs, when the downtown art galleries stay open late. We were strolling along Central Avenue when this poster in the window of Maxine’s caught my eye. I went back tonight and Agnes, the Polish proprietress graciously offered this copy… http://www.myspace.com/thewonderfulpeople
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Aug 08 2010
Lawrence Davidson writes about why we should “sit up and take notice” when the Israelis flatten the Bedouin village of al-Arakib: http://www.counterpunch.org/davidson08062010.html orhttp://bit.ly/9dqi9N or http://tinyurl.com/2wmpcgt This sort of thing happens all the time in “the only democracy in the Middle East.” According to the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions over 24,000 Palestinian homes have been torn down …
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Aug 07 2010
Jamie Doward writes in guardian.co.uk on the passing of Tony Judt at age 62: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/07/historian-tony-judt-dies or http://bit.ly/8XIFF3 or http://tinyurl.com/386pzjr Tony Judt, the British writer, historian and professor who was recently described as having the “liveliest mind in New York”, has died after a two-year struggle with motor neurone disease. Considered by many to be a giant in …
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Aug 02 2010
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Matthew 2:18 (KJV) Jonathon Cook writes from Nazareth. His August 2, 2010 article, “Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies” can be read here: http://www.zcommunications.org/revered-rabbi-preaches-slaughter-of-gentile-babies-by-jonathan-cook or http://bit.ly/aIYgKP or http://tinyurl.com/25toe6q Rabbi Yitzhak …
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Jul 17 2010
Robert Fisk on Fadlallah again, this time on our present season of grovelling whenever “anything might offend you know who.” http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-theyre-all-grovelling-and-you-can-guess-the-reason-2028720.html or http://bit.ly/d9tSpU or http://tinyurl.com/32lxjd8 Last paragraph: Looking back, the Obama grovelling started in that famous Cairo reach-out-to-the-Muslim-world speech, when he referred to the Palestinian “relocation” of 1948 (as if the Palestinian Arabs got up one morning on …
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