Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
Category: War
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Feb 15 2014
Your state and culture as the world’s patron
Ted Cruz’s imperialist fantasy: Why his latest anti-Obama epithet is so dangerous By Colin P. Elliott, Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 08:30 AM CST In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Sen. Ted Cruz now insists that Americans are living under an “imperial presidency” because of the way that the …
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Feb 15 2014
The premise that the Jews deserve more
Say a big ‘thank you’ to Martin Schulz By Avraham Burg, Feb. 14, 2014 7:25 PM A bit of disclosure: First, to me, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) is one of the shallowest people I’ve ever encountered here in recent years. Give me Moshe Feiglin, give me Uri Elitzur, give me Shlomo Ben-Zvi, …
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Feb 09 2014
Their first institutional reflex
A clue as to why the Shin Bet might hack me By Jonathan Cook, 7 February 2014 I have been pondering – probably more than is wise – what happened yesterday, when I lost control of my computer for an hour shortly after I had contacted the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman for a comment …
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Feb 08 2014
Ethnic cleansing
Did the Age of Genocide Begin in Sochi? By Joshua Keating, Feb. 5 2014 3:51 PM Of the myriad controversies surrounding the upcoming Olympics, one that’s gotten relatively little attention—at least outside Russia—is the ongoing campaign against the games by the global Circassian community. The choice of Sochi as a venue has highlighted a …
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Jan 20 2014
Bane of fundamentalism
Dear editor: Historians will surely look back on this generation as an age when ignorance and silliness trumped reason and progress. Ours is a time pregnant with potential, yet scarred and crippled by war, greed and prejudice. Why? I’ll lay blame squarely on the bane of fundamentalism. Whether in religion, or politics, or the social …
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Jan 15 2014
Megalomaniac
Why I can’t mourn for Ariel Sharon By Amit Schejter , Jan. 14, 2014 5:28 PM Ariel Sharon’s death brings no closure for me. And I suspect that’s the case for many other veterans of the 1982 Lebanon War. For those of us who still bear the physical and emotional scars of that …
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