Democrats mirror Communist Party Dear editor: One of the speakers at the Republican Convention Monday evening was a popular young Hollywood actor named Antonio Sabato Jr., a very strong supporter of Donald Trump as well as the Republican Party. He moved here in 1985 from Rome, Italy, as a legal immigrant. Antonio is …
Category: Palestine
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Jan 18 2016
Once upon a time
The name “Mission: Meeting” is sort of an inside joke for missionaries and MKs (children of missionaries are called “missionary kids” or “mishkids”) who endured endless¹ “mission meetings” (planning and business meetings). It also conveys the idea that this project’s mission is to allow web site visitors to “meet” real people of the …
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Jan 13 2016
What would Jesus the Palestinian do?
What do you call a Christian who opposes the occupation of Palestine by undermining its socio-economic and religious underpinnings? By Theo Horesh, Jan 11, 2016 Among other things, you might call him Christ. There is a quiet sea of change in support for Israel among American Christians. This transformation is so powerful it might …
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Dec 13 2015
An embarrassing reflection of us
By Jacques, d’Nalgar, December 13 2015 Why all the sanctimonious hand-wringing over Donald Trump’s latest bombastics? Are we really that shocked when this unfiltered braggart harrumphs that the world’s Muslims must not be allowed to sully our exceptional, Christian America? After all, isn’t that what most of us really want? Sure, we may …
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Nov 23 2015
An almost Kafkaesque reality
Part 1: I am so tired of having to explain why Palestinians deserve to live By Dina Elmuti, November 19, 2015 Every day, I desperately attempt to make sense of the senseless. I feverishly try to patch and weave together the pieces of history to understand and grapple with the calamities that have bestowed …
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Nov 23 2015
Historians and other nincompoops
Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and rhetoric is no recipe for peace By Robert Fisk, Sunday 22 November 2015 19:28 BST Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. “Whoa, boy!” were his words. And they should …
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Nov 21 2015
Oh brother where art thou?
Dear editor, Oh my little brother, where art thou NOW?! Week after week your letters, pregnant with petulant, prattling preachery raging against the black man in the White House, parade your naked paranoia and your ponderous morality for all to see. Who anointed you and your amen corner arbiters of who is — …
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