Dec 25 2011

Make the next year count

Fear Dec 21, 2012?

By Jason Boyett, 03:49 PM ET, 12/21/2011 … Today is December 21, 2011. A host of Web sites, books, and breathless cable documentaries are speculating that the world will come to an end a year…  [more]

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Dec 24 2011

The irony would not have been lost

The near-religious zeal that drives the godless

By Howard Jacobson, Saturday 24 December 2011 … May I take this opportunity to wish readers a happy “moral and aesthetic nightmare”. That definition of Christmas belongs to the late Christopher Hitchens.…  [more]

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Dec 24 2011

Strangely drawn

The story of Jesus is the ultimate political drama

By , Saturday 24 December 2011 04.10 EST … I shouldn’t like it. Not at all. My upbringing – regular synagogue attendance, Hebrew classes twice a week, a kosher…  [more]

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Dec 24 2011

Religious impulse revealed

2011: when protest turned peaceful

By Peter Popham, Saturday 24 December 2011 … In September, a man nicknamed “Little Gandhi” was buried in his home town near Damascus. Ghiyath Matar, a 24-year-old father-to-be, had been tortured and killed by…  [more]

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Dec 23 2011

These champions of Zion

How I became a ‘terrorist’

By Abdelrahman Al Ahmar, 02:47 23.12.11 … The first time I was attacked by an Israeli settler, I was 14 years old. I was walking to school when an armed man wearing a skullcap, standing…  [more]

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Dec 23 2011

To even raise this question

I am sorry for the role I played in Fallujah

By , Thursday 22 December 2011 05.00 EST … It has been seven years since the end of the second siege of Fallujah – the US assault that…  [more]

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Dec 23 2011

If we blindly endorse

Britain’s love affair with our military is dangerous

By , Friday 23 December 2011 06.00 EST … The only place you could be sure of seeing a British soldier used to be outside a pub in a garrison…  [more]

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