Mar 02 2012
We are fighting Islamism from ignorance, as we did the cold war By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 1 March 2012 15.00 EST … Were we wrong? I have lived through two global conflicts: the west against Russian communism and now the west against political Islam. The latter was caused by western leaders exaggerating a threat from …
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Mar 01 2012
Dear Friends: I think we can safely assume that every rabbi in America will instruct his congregation this Saturday along the lines of this artfully-crafted set of talking points (below). Every delegate to the AIPAC convention next week, and every member of both houses of Congress will undoubtedly receive a copy, as well. Phone calls …
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Feb 29 2012
The regime calls it ‘cleaning’, but the dirty truth is plain to see By Robert Fisk, Thursday 01 March 2012 … So it’s the “cleaning” of Baba Amr now, is it? “Tingheef” in Arabic. Did that anonymous Syrian government official really use that word to the AP yesterday? It’s a chilling expression, one that always …
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Feb 26 2012
By Eli Valley, March 02, 2012 … With nods to Stanley Kubrick and Cecil B. DeMille, the Forward’s artist in residence Eli Valley makes a choose-your-own adventure comic for Iran pundits. … http://forward.com/articles/151920/
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Feb 25 2012
Why the West pussyfoots around Assad By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 February 2012 … Some people are just unlucky. They get born in the wrong place. Like the Syrian city of Homs, where at least 1,770 people have been killed since government troops began their relentless bombardment of the city three weeks ago. Over the …
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Feb 25 2012
Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right By Paul Harris, Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now topping national polls in the Republican presidential nomination race, has embraced the unfashionable, dorky item of sleeveless …
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Feb 24 2012
The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make By Kaleem Aftab, Monday 20 February 2012 … A Finnish sci-fi film about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second World War has turned out to be the unlikely hot ticket of this year’s Berlin …
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