Archive for May, 2010
by James M. Wall Bibi Netanyahu is on a roll these days. Settler violence against Palestinians? Who notices anymore. Malnourished children in Gaza? Israel and the US took care of that by burying the Goldstone Report. Activists in those pesky Israeli Arab NGOs? Israel has two of their leaders “in custody” right now. (Stories about […]
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by James M. Wall The Nakba has claimed another victim. This time it was not the death of one of the millions of Palestinians driven from their homes by the 1948 creation of the modern state of Israel. In this case, the loss was a private home on Princesses’ Street in Baghdad, Iraq, an ending […]
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by James M. Wall The White House hosted two recent meetings with a carefully selected group of 15 American rabbis, Orthodox, Reformed and Conservative. Note carefully, the 15 rabbis are religious leaders. The first meeting in the White House was on April 20. The second meeting was held May 13. Both sessions were designed to […]
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by James M. Wall Yitzhar Laor, writing in Ha’aretz, says the Israeli people are eager to know many things. But the one thing they do not want to know is that for 43 years they have oppressed another people. They prefer to live in denial. To the vast majority of Israelis the “territories are far […]
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by James M. Wall Update Highlighted Below: Monday AM, May 10 Under a seldom used 1940 US law, an American citizen found guilty of serving in the German or Japanese armies during armed hostilities, would lose their citizenship. This week, seventy years later, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) have introduced an […]
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by James M. Wall Charles Colson, the former Nixon special counsel-turned-Christian radio commentator, told his listeners God allowed Hurricane Katrina to remind the United States how important it is to win the “war on terror”. That’s the way folks like Chuck Colson think. God talks to them. It may sound weird to most folks, but if […]
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