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Levy Rivers

Sarah Palin just called herself an anti-Semite - 0 views

  • Sarah Palin sat in her conservative evangelical church, twice, and said nothing when her visiting pastors and speakers attacked another great nation and another great people - Jews and Israel.
sofarso Shawn

YouTube - Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast feat. Rage Against The Machine - 0 views

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    Really they're over Gaza right now: in the same disproportionate & unjust way they were over Baghdad.
Michael Haltman

The Political Commentator: North Korean nukes, long-range missiles and the US mainland - 0 views

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    Simply because the Tucson shooting and violence in Mexico are in the headlines today, does not mean that existing stories like North Korean nuclear weapons are any less critical to stay on top of.
Arabica Robusta

ZCommunications | The brutal truth about Tunisia by Robert Fisk | ZNet Article - 0 views

  • For I fear this is going to be the same old story. Yes, we would like a democracy in Tunisia – but not too much democracy. Remember how we wanted Algeria to have a democracy back in the early Nineties?   Then when it looked like the Islamists might win the second round of voting, we supported its military-backed government in suspending elections and crushing the Islamists and initiating a civil war in which 150,000 died.
  • Indeed, what was Hillary Clinton doing last week as Tunisia burned? She was telling the corrupted princes of the Gulf that their job was to support sanctions against Iran, to confront the Islamic republic, to prepare for another strike against a Muslim state after the two catastrophes the United States and the UK have already inflicted in the region.
  • It's the same old problem for us in the West. We mouth the word "democracy" and we are all for fair elections – providing the Arabs vote for whom we want them to vote for.
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  • In Algeria 20 years ago, they didn't. In "Palestine" they didn't. And in Lebanon, because of the so-called Doha accord, they didn't. So we sanction them, threaten them and warn them about Iran and expect them to keep their mouths shut when Israel steals more Palestinian land for its colonies on the West Bank.
thinkahol *

Israel's Illegal Settlements: The US Goes Rogue At The UN | NEWS JUNKIE POST - 0 views

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    On Friday, the United States stood alone and vetoed an Arab resolution at the United Nations Security Council. The resolution strongly condemned Israeli illegal settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a "major obstacle to peace". All 14 other members of the UN Security Council voted in favor of the resolution.
Peter Dearman

MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty - 0 views

  • A ban on materials required for their maintenance, including cement, steel and pipes, left them in a state of disrepair.
  • Israeli bombs hit the already fragile sewage and water treatment systems, causing drinking water and raw sewage to mix across some of the most populated areas of Gaza.
  • Tank shells hit the strip's largest wastewater plant in the Sheikh Aljeen area of Gaza City, sending sewage cascading directly into neighbourhoods, farms and into the sea.
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    Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war.
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    Gaza is a Kafkaesque situation that makes a joke out of rational geopolitical discussion.
Tom Trewinnard

Op-Ed Columnist - An Egyptian for Unesco - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Good opinion piece on Farouk Hosny's controversial candidacy to head UNESCO.
Ahmad Al-Shagra

RUSI A new dialogue? Obama's Cairo speech - 0 views

  • He started by stating America's bond with Israel is 'unbreakable', which was an important way of tackling those Israelis expressing concern of Obama's obvious efforts to work with Arabs and Palestinians to end the bitter conflict..
  • Tackling the issues around violent extremism (which encompassed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq)
Michael Hughes

Palestinian-American employs comedy and gravity to analyze crisis in the Middle East - 0 views

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    As a Palestinian-American, award-winning journalist Ray Hanania has had a unique and rare life experience growing up on the Southwest Side of Chicago, which is dominated by Irish, Polish, and Italian working class, where many people think that every Arab is a potential terrorist. But what is even more interesting about Mr. Hanania is the fact that he is married to a Jew.
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