Fox News interviews Glenn Beck about his “restoring honour” event in Washington DC over the weekend and one gains an insight into a man who truly believes that America is a country that should embrace a Christian God. Shame about those Muslims, Jews and atheists: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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Washington doesn’t understand that the Middle East has changed
How does the more enlightened establishment view the Middle East and America’s role? Robert Malley and Peter Harling write in Foreign Affairs: In the Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama has spent the first year and a half of his presidency seeking to undo the damage wrought by his predecessor. He has made up some…
Abunimah says without Hamas talks are pointless
Ali Abunimah in the New York Times – what, a Palestinian in the Times, get rid of him immediately! – on America’s apparent determination to fail at upcoming “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: George J. Mitchell, the United States Middle East envoy, tried to counter low expectations for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations…
Not trusting Bibi over anything
Israeli pop star Ninette satirises Netanyahu’s inability to hold a position on the conflict with the Palestinians:
Rabbinic court lashes singer
If Muslims stone women the world reacts in horror. And yet when fundamentalist Jews behave similarly, silence: A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday. Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the…
More wars and Glenn Beck do not equal respect or honour
Because Fox News, Glenn Beck, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and God are what America needs to “restore honour“:
Yet another legacy of America’s war on Iraq
The Iraq war isn’t over; it’s resulted in a mass influx of young Iraqi women to Syria who become sex slaves or prostitutes.
Performing Brecht in Palestine is a shameful use of talent
How too many Israeli theatres are embracing performing in the occupied Palestinian territories (but some are rightly refusing).
Chinese repression isn’t the way forward
The Western capitalist model is inherently problematic with massive over-consumption and a gross disregard for human rights (if corporations get in the way). But this really isn’t an alternative and viable model: The “discipline” of China’s authoritarian political system should be considered as a potential recipe for economic growth in Africa and other developing regions,…