Category: War

For 64 years

As the ‘gates of hell’ open once more in the Middle East, these old journalistic clichés won’t do By Robert Fisk, Sunday 18 November 2012   Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years …

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To break the Palestinians

A Pillar Built on Sand By John Mearsheimer, 16 November 2012   In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by assassinating Hamas’s military chief, Ahmad Jabari. Hamas, which had been playing a minor role in …

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Our chances of survival

Life goes on in Gaza, where no place is safe By Samah Sabawi, November 17, 2012 12:00AM   A bomb falls close to our neighbourhood in Gaza; I check Facebook to see if everyone has survived. A young cousin, Nihal, writes in her status: “Shoot, I should have had my nap earlier today, didn’t know it …

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Kook

We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action! By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012   The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But …

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Suffused with schadenfreude

Reputation, Reputation, Reputation By Maureen Dowd, November 13, 2012   As Lyndon Johnson said, the two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex. Macbeth kills a king out of envy. Egged on by an envious Iago, Othello smothers his wife out of a crazed fear of her having sex with his lieutenant. Now …

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They returned a new son to us

Before the 1967 lines retire, too By Akiva Eldar, Nov.13, 2012 4:33 AM   On Saturday afternoon light rain greeted the long column of cars crawling through the narrow lanes of the Palestinian village of Jayus in the heart of the northern West Bank. At the head of the column was a battered truck dragging …

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Cannon fodder

Veterans Day and a caution against the cult of the military By Bob Garfield, Sunday 11 November 2012 19.44 EST   The video is lovely, affecting and – considering the subject matter – reasonably understated. A 60-ish guy sits at a lunch counter when a younger man, in army fatigues, walks in and orders a …

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