Archive for August, 2011
by James M. Wall Mahmoud Abu Samra was killed August 19 in an Israeli air raid near Gaza City. He was 13 years old. The Palestinian news service, Ma’an, tells the story of Mahmoud’s death: Renewed air strikes across the Gaza Strip late Thursday killed a Palestinian teenager and injured more than a dozen others […]
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Tags: Eliat bus attack, Mahmoud Abu Samra, shaheeds
by James M. Wall Uri Avnery, intrepid columnist, ageless Israeli peace activist, and retired IDF soldier, has seen, up close, the actions of every government Israeli voters have put in office since the nation was created. He is not fooled by the antics, decisions and deceptions of the current Israeli right-wing government. Avnery peers into […]
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by James M. Wall Eighty-one members of the US House of Representatives—about 20 percent of the total membership—are enjoying a late summer week-long, all-expenses paid trip to Israel. This hasbara (propaganda) trip happens every other summer (in non-election years), but this year’s excursion to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea comes at a time when voters […]
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by James M. Wall From time to time, just as the Middle East political cauldron reaches one of its major boiling points, the New York Times‘ Thomas Friedman sits down to write an open letter to the leaders of a particular Middle Eastern state, offering sage advice on what action Friedman thinks the leader should […]
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