Category: War

On this Memorial Day

Something different to remember on Memorial Day By Clancy Sigal, Sunday 29 May 2011 15.00 BST War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – President John F Kennedy I lost a friend recently with whom I’d grown up. As adolescents, …

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An iron wall high enough

Time for Netanyahu to ditch his do-nothing policy By Richard Cohen, Monday, May 23, 6:39 PM … Every man has a father, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what has become Israel. He is a historian …

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And we better wake up

President’s fine words may not address the Middle East’s real needs By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 19 May 2011 … OK, so here’s what President Barack Obama should say today about the Middle East. We will leave Afghanistan tomorrow. We will leave Iraq tomorrow. We will stop giving unconditional, craven support to Israel. Americans will force …

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The fundamental issue

A right to return By Jody McIntyre, Monday, 16 May 2011 at 3:29 pm … No amount of time can make an injustice legitimate.  No amount of oppression can make a people forget. Sunday, May 15th 2011 marked the 63rd anniversary of al-Nakba, or the catastrophe, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians from …

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Islamophiliac?

  Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand? By Robert Chalmers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 … Among the many new things I have learnt from the work of Pamela Geller is that President Obama reputedly used to knock around with a crack whore. “That,” the author, blogger and broadcaster insists, “is not what I said. …

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LIFE. 50 years before 9-11…

The following is from LIFE Magazine, September 17, 1951, beginning on page 91: http://books.google.com/books?id=tE4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA91 or http://tinyurl.com/6asyoto And then there is this bit of brave reporting on page 37, from September 29, 1958: http://books.google.com/books?id=aVMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37 or http://tinyurl.com/3pprgz8

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War no more

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