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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Jun 22 2010
Robert Fisk: “We are in love with the word, seduced by it, fixated by it, attacked by it, assaulted by it, raped by it, committed to it. It is love and sadism and death in one double syllable, the prime time-theme song, the opening of every television symphony, the headline of every page, a punctuation …
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Jun 21 2010
This is a nearly 10-minute video (thanks Marjorie). I know we’re not allowed to make such comparisons, but think of 1937 Guernica and the infamous Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 – 1943: http://www.theplainlanguagereview.com/2010/02/gaza-in-plain-language.html
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Jun 13 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48893402@N02/ Thanks to a recent post from Alia Yunis (www.aliayunis.com), we now know more about the nine “Islamist extremists” who were murdered by Israeli commandos when they stormed the MV Mavi Marmara in international waters on May 31, 2010. Ever wonder where the next generation of terrorists will come from? Look into the faces …
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