Category: War

Connected solely by religion

The Jewish people’s ultimate treasure hunt By Ofer Aderet, Dec.28, 2012 9:12 AM   “Just imagine a group of blind people who encounter an elephant for the first time in their lives. They place their hands on it and touch it in order to understand what kind of animal it is. But each of them …

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Prophylactic self-censorship

Hagel, the lobby and the limits of power By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, 28 Dec 2012 11:43   You have to do no more than watch this attack ad produced by the neoconservative pressure group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) to understand the significance of Chuck Hagel’s possible nomination as US secretary of defence. The …

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Terror, terror, terror, terror

A word of advice about the Middle East – we’ve reached the ‘tipping point’ with cliches By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 December 2012   Remember the days when we thought Egypt’s path to democracy was a done deal? Western-trained Mohamed Morsi had invited the people to come and meet him in Hosni Mubarak’s former presidential palace, the …

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Shock and anxiety syndrome

The disproportionate value of Israeli life By Belen Fernandez, 22 Dec 2012 13:03   Following the conclusion of Operation “Pillar of Defence”, Israel’s latest bout of terror in Gaza, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Ha’aretz: Since the first Qassam rocket fell on Israel in April 2001, 59 Israelis have been killed – and 4,717 …

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The big boss is bankrolling it

Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency By Carl Bernstein, Thursday 20 December 2012 11.41 EST   So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch‘s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America’s democratic institutions on a …

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Holy chapter in the Gospel of America’s Goodness

Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda By Glenn Greenwald, Friday 14 December 2012 10.03 EST   I’ve now seen “Zero Dark Thirty”. Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I’ve ever been involved. It was …

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Nostalgic for the values that existed

Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine. Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can’t they do so again? By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 December 2012   “I was born here and I have a right to live here – the same thing goes for the Arab population” On the wall of the flat is a …

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