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Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
Fadlallah passed away yesterday. I would have commented on it sooner but I was in the Bay area for the weekend and didn’t get around to blogging until now. Contrary to media reports, Fadlallah was not the “spiritual guide” to … Continue reading
Gaza, Sand, and Resilience
Palestinians resisting the Gaza siege… with sand. I admire their resilience while abhoring Israel’s ruthlessness. See the video here.
How to Kill an Economy: Israel’s Gaza Policy
al-Jazeera: First close down the borders and refuse to allow any exports out. Then ban the importing of any raw material for factories and businesses. Force the commercial class to rely on expensive underground smuggling tunnels to procure what the … Continue reading
Documentary: “For Neda”
This highly emotional HBO documentary on the death of Neda Agha Soltan is a must see.
Posted in 22 Khordad, Documentary, Iran
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The Ethnic Cleansing of E. Jerusalem Continues…
How can Israelis justify this? How can they not see the connection between Palestinian resentment of Israel and the impact of these Israeli policies on their lives? By simply denouncing such legitimate grievances as anti-Semitic and ignoring the devastating and … Continue reading
Posted in Settlements, The Conflict
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UC Irvine’s message: Criticize Israel, get suspended
LA Times: Students across the country are monitoring events at UC Irvine as pro- Israel groups try to reestablish their deterrence capacity on American campuses. After a 4-month-long investigation, UC Irvine’s administration last week announced an unprecedented recommendation to suspend … Continue reading
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Juan Cole on Turkish-Israeli Relations
Sometimes, most of time, maybe even all the time when I read Professor Juan Cole’s posts, I want to re-post them verbatim here. His recent post on Turkish-Israeli relations is once such moment. Read it here.
Ron Artest and his therapist
So I used to post a lot of comedy-oriented links here. What ever happened to those? Here’s a tribute to the past and promise to the future – posts that will make you smile will appear alongside posts that will … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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Israeli Ambassador to the US: US-Israel relations a ‘tectonic rift’
The Guardian: Relations between Israel and its staunchest ally, the US, have suffered a “tectonic rift”, according to Israel’s ambassador to Washington. Michael Oren briefed Israeli diplomats on the sharp deterioration between the countries ahead of Israeli prime minister Binyamin … Continue reading
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Plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
See the video here. If Walid Jumblatt is now speaking in support of Palestinian rights, it just goes to show how perilous their situation is in Lebanon.
Posted in Lebanon, Middle East
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Iran Time Magazine Covers
Speaking of Iran being on magazine covers (see the post below this one)… here are most though not all of the issues of Time Magazine with Iran on the cover. Did I mention that when I was an undergraduate, I … Continue reading
Fareed Zakaria on the possibility of regime change in Iran
This is one of the few times you’ll see me agree with Fareed Zakaria. Here he speaks about the possibility of regime change in Iran and sharply and convincingly criticizes McCain’s wishful thinking.
Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade
[This is just a stepping stone… watch and see how activists from around the world begin to mobilize against Israeli interests. The massacre of the Freedom Flotilla was the last straw and I believe that people are just fed up … Continue reading
Israel Derangement Syndrome
Andrew Sullivan: To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim. An elite commando … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Palestine, The Conflict
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Film: “South of the Border”
See the trailer for Oliver Stone’s latest documentary film here. See him talk about his film with Bill Maher here.
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