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Ed. note: The writer worked as a journalist throughout Palestine-Israel for decades.

The unspoken war of terror on the Israelis

No one who has been in a war would like to recite the experiences. And who would want to hear? That might explain why so many Iraq vets are now destitute. But, back to the Israelis…

Israel’s purpose is to be the saviour of ( Read more... )

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* 9 October 2008

Short Cuts
Adam Shatz

If you live in an American swing state you may have received a copy of ‘Obsession’ in your Sunday paper. ‘Obsession’ isn’t a perfume: it’s a documentary about ‘radical Islam’s war against the West’. In the last two weeks of September, 28 million copies of the film were enclosed as an advertising ( Read more... )

Graffiti and Israel
By Marc Sapir
Thursday October 02, 2008

Riya Bhattachargjee’s Sept. 25 article “Anti-Israel Graffiti Found Near Campus” is poor journalism. The title is fine, but the article leads with an erroneous use of the term “anti-Semitism,” which then serves as a justification for the outrage of Birgeneau and various Zionist student ( Read more... )

Met chief Blair quits amid discord with Boris Johnson

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LONDON (AFP) - Britain's top policeman announced his resignation Thursday after long-running criticism over racism and a mistaken shooting and open discord with London's new mayor.

Metropolitan Police chief Ian Blair, who took office shortly before suicide ( Read more... )

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September 24, 2008

In an interview with CNN's Larry King airing tonight, Bill Clinton offered a slightly unusual reason for postponing his campaigning for Obama: The Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which he's not known to observe.

"When [the Clinton Global Initiative] is over, and after the Jewish holidays, which follow ( Read more... )

This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.

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By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 17, 2008; B01

Northern Virginia Republicans, realizing they need to improve their appeal among the region's large ethnic population, will stage a "unity" rally Saturday that they say will draw 1,000 people.

Organizers said the ( Read more... )

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Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest

Catherine McNicol Stock is chair of the history department at Connecticut College and author of "Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain"

Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ( Read more... )