Jun 08 2008

Dreaming of what once was

 Dear Janna,  Perhaps the answer is to out-market the vision of what is possible vs. the vision of those things feared or coveted.  Somehow, we’ve got to convince people that the alternative to fear and avoidance of insecurity is better…  [more]

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May 18 2008

I beg to disagree

 While Obama has shamelessly pandered (along with the rest of them) for the American Jewish vote, he has at the same time demonstrated a grasp of Middle Eastern realities that I have not heard from any other candidate.  And while…  [more]

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May 13 2008

A century of willful ignorance

 A friend of mine just sent me an interesting article by Ramzy Baroud, about Johns Hagee and McCain:  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13720  Here’s the first paragraph from Baroud’s article:  A memorable quote in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth…  [more]

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May 11 2008

Memories

 Either Prime Minister Siniora studied at the George Bush – John McSame School of Diplomacy or he is suffering profound memory loss.  According to Haaretz, he has today branded Hezbollah as worse than Israel, saying “even the Israeli enemy never…  [more]

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Apr 22 2008

Disgusting

 http://www.wyff4.com/news/15948849/detail.html…  [more]

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Apr 19 2008

Nazis

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/our-reign-of-terror-by-the-israeli-army-811769.html or http://bit.ly/btjS0r or http://tinyurl.com/3uz2fs…  [more]

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Apr 13 2008

Man of war

  • Filed under Lebanon

  • April 13, 2008

 Here’s a great article about Robert Fisk by Rachel Cooke:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/13/middleeastthemedia.lebanon  …an interesting paragraph for those of us who lived “over there” and still love Lebanon dearly: One of the striking things about Fisk is that he has never gone…  [more]

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