Tafasta merubah, lo tafasta!

Dear Friends: This is an exceptionally constructive and illuminating appraisal of the current state of U.S. policy toward the Israel-Palestine issue, written by Henry Siegman, president of the US/Middle East Project (and presently a nonresident visiting research professor at the…  [more]

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If we become just and moral

Turning the ‘right of return’ into reality

By Ben White, 31 May 2011 12:02 After years of marginalisation in the peace process, the Palestinian refugees are back on centre stage. On May 15, Nakba day, the refugees forced…  [more]

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Nobody can make you feel

A poisonous environment in which to be a woman

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 30 May 2011 Dame Barbara Mills DBE QC, 70, died on Saturday, after suffering a stroke. I asked a number of young professionals if they knew…  [more]

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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. –…  [more]

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As this nonsense continues

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says?

By Robert Fisk, 30 May 2011 This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the…  [more]

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Godliness and purity

Manifest destiny and the ‘Wild West Bank’

By Tarak Barkawi, 29 May 2011 16:32  … Judging by reactions to recent speeches by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, many in the US would prefer to have the Israeli leader…  [more]

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Foreign-born immigrant?

Don Cunningham is a perennial letter-writer and apparently a reverend (see his 2007 letter), although he has dropped that moniker of assumed gravitas for his recent spate of sulphurous belchings.  Apparently the foolishness about Obama’s birth certificate (and other forms…  [more]

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