Lawyer and amateur historian Alan Dershowitz is clearly a scared man. The trajectory of his rhetoric is directly related to the misbehaviour of Israel. In other words, whenever Israel commits even greater crimes in the occupied territories, Dershowtiz can be relied upon to increase his hatred towards anybody who dares challenge the Jewish state’s actions.…
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The galut
A Jew, a Christmas party in LA, Jimmy Carter, Jewish chauvinism and Israel. If only more Jews were able to articulate the contradictions.
That benign occupation
Firas Aridah, International Herald Tribune, December 22: For the 39th consecutive year, Palestinian Christians in towns and villages like Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Aboud will celebrate Christmas under Israeli military occupation. In Aboud, our hardships increased in October 2005, when the Israeli military issued confiscation orders to seize land owned by village residents to build…
YouTube of the day
RIP The Godfather of Soul, James Brown (I saw him twice, once in Sicily and once in Sydney, and both times he lived up to his reputation as a hard-living, crazy dancing legend):
Seasons greetings
Merry Christmas to any and all readers who celebrate Jesus Day. For some, of course, today will not be as celebratory as it should be.
Writing and breathing
Omid Memarian is an Iranian journalist living in California. He talks about Iranian blogging, internet censorship and living under a cloud. Some much needed perspective.
The lies continue
Robert Fisk, The Independent, December 23: Typical of the dirt thrown at [Jimmy] Carter was the comment by Michael Kinsley in The New York Times (of course) that Carter “is comparing Israel to the former white racist government of South Africa”. This was followed by a vicious statement from Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League,…