The West wonders why many Muslims hate the Americans? Military officials at Bagram are caught on tape urging US soldiers to evangelize in the Muslim country. UPDATE: The US military has responded to the al-Jazeera story…by shooting the messenger.
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The Islamic Republic unpacked
Leading Iranian human rights activist, lawyer and Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on the key issues facing the Islamic Republic: The most pressing issue facing Iran is the increasing levels of unemployment among the youth and also increased poverty in society, as well as a greater occurrence of cases of violation of human rights. For…
Palestine matters, but not alone
Why, asks Geoffrey Alderman in the Guardian, isn’t the carnage in Sri Lanka receiving blanket coverage in the UK and internationally? I’ll tell you why. Because Sri Lanka is not Israel. Because the Tamils are not Arabs. And because here, in the UK, the Tamil vote is negligible whereas the Muslim vote is not. Yes,…
Iran, apartheid, Zionism and other such matters
A fascinating collection of letters in today’s Melbourne Age newspaper, proving once again that debate about Israel/Palestine is far more robust in the public than the mainstream media usually allows: The most frustrating thing about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN anti-racism conference (The Age, 21/4) — aside from his flagrant anti-Semitism — is the…
Please speak English a little more
Jihadists, are you listening? Just 13% of CIA employees speak a foreign language nearly five years after the 9/11 Commission urged the agency to expand its ranks of bilingual operatives and analysts to help thwart future terrorist attacks, according to CIA data provided at USA TODAY’s request.
The growth of the non-state actor
Hezbollah’s No. 2, cleric Naim Qassem, speaks to the Los Angeles Times: The more we clarify our image to the people of the West, the more pressure they will put on their governments to stop supporting Israel… In recent years, the Western perception of Hezbollah has changed. Even governments have started to look for reasons…
Jews are getting the image of being afraid of debate
My following article appears on the leading US blog Mondoweiss: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in Palestine, of the moment he became a “critical Israeli”: “I first became aware of being an ”˜Israeli in Palestine’ on…
Our actions cause hatred
Charles Freeman, the recently resigned applicant for chairman of the National Intelligence Council – the Zionist lobby struck again – talks about his views on the Middle East to the Jewish Forward newspaper: …Our relationship with Israel, given what Israel has done to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, has helped to create…