Archive for March, 2012
The editorial comment below is reprinted from the Christian Century magazine of November 23, 1977. At the time the editorial appeared, I was the editor of the Century. This was the week’s lead editorial. In 1977, I had been editor for five years, a position I held until 1999. President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in January, 1977. […]
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by James M. Wall Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the annual AIPAC conference earlier this week. He also held a private meeting with US President Barack Obama. In his AIPAC speech, Netanyahu evoked the Holocaust as the source of Israel’s special privileged status that permits Netanyahu to do whatever he decides to do […]
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by James M. Wall Sunday afternoon update following President Obama’s AIPAC speech When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes his annual state visit this week to Washington he will be surrounded by sycophants and loyal political allies prepared to respond to his every demand. I speak not of the Prime Minister’s traveling companions from Tel Aviv, […]
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