2011: The summer of love

Both read the bible day and night; but you read black where I read white. William Blake No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.  [more]

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Wrong sort of bullet

A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest

By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 28 May 2011 I went to see Munib Masri in his Beirut hospital bed yesterday morning. He is part of the Arab revolution, although he doesn’t see…  [more]

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We were there

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234 [more]

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General’s son

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc From: Marjorie J Wright Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:53 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Miko Peled and The Constituency of Conscience This is an excellent short video directed by my friend Ed Sweed and created by the Alternate…  [more]

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Sit down & shut up

Kindly remain seated

By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same…  [more]

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A moral abdication

The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

By Peter Beinart, June 10, 2010 In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of…  [more]

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It was all rather disgusting

Bibi and the Yo-Yos

By Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos,…  [more]

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