Jun 12 2010

A pass, based on the past

 Fisk, in today’s piece on how a Canadian paper is diverting unwelcome attention on Israel’s latest brutality by reminding readers of Hitler and the Holocaust: As usual, we who speak out against the ruthlessness of Israel’s army – as, of…  [more]

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Jun 12 2010

Damn our apathy

 The demise of Helen Thomas’ long career was tragic, but the real tragedy is the continued suffering of Palestinians and the unchecked arrogance and brutality of a largely-artificial nation of Western fascists who we blindly subsidize despite the obvious contradictions…  [more]

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Jun 10 2010

A toast to Helen

 Where else but in America can you pillory the career of an old woman for the mere crime of having the audacity to speak her mind? The purge of the screeching castrati of our fourth estate is now nearly complete…  [more]

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Jun 09 2010

A brief encounter

 I met Helen Thomas several years ago at a Washington DC restaurant. When I made the mistake of addressing her as a Lebanese-American (hard to recall now if my vocals were likewise hyphenated), she quickly corrected me. “I am…  [more]

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May 31 2010

Beyond incredulity

 This headline in today’s supposedly-progressive Haaretz – “Israel Navy commandos: Gaza flotilla activists tried to lynch us” – makes me wonder if something was lost in translation.  The irony of a lynching in Israel’s own Deep South is strange enough…  [more]

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May 21 2010

Relative to Albert Einstein…

 Thanks to “my” crack team of researchers, here’s the letter by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, and others, first published in the Books section (page 12) of The New York Times, Saturday December 4, 1948:  http://www.archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 or http://bit.ly/d5pUR7 or…  [more]

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May 20 2010

Albert Einstein

 Just read (confession: scanned) “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” by Peter Beinart: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/ What caught my eye, near the very end of the article, was this: …the December 1948 letter from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and others to…  [more]

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