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Nov 25 2015
Their own culpability
How the United States helped create the Islamic State
By Juan Cole, November 23 Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2015/11/25/their-own-culpability/
Nov 25 2015
Original sin
The Politics of Thanksgiving Day
By William Loren Katz, November 26, 2014 With family excitement building with the approach of Thanksgiving, you would never know November was Native American History Month. We would do well to recognize Native American… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2015/11/25/original-sin/
Nov 23 2015
An almost Kafkaesque reality
Part 1: I am so tired of having to explain why Palestinians deserve to live
By Dina Elmuti, November 19, 2015 Every day, I desperately attempt to make sense of the senseless. I feverishly try to patch and… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2015/11/23/an-almost-kafkaesque-reality/
Nov 23 2015
Historians and other nincompoops
Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and rhetoric is no recipe for peace
By Robert Fisk, Sunday 22 November 2015 19:28 BST Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful… [more]
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Nov 21 2015
Oh brother where art thou?
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Nov 20 2015
Zara’u fa akalna, nazra’u fa ya’kulun
Stories My Father Told Me
By Helen Zughaib with Elia Kamal Zughaib, November/December 2015Charity and Compassion
When Jiddu told my father this story, he prefaced it by saying his father had told it to him and he… [more]
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