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We Are All Prisoners Here

Posted in Gilad Shalit, Palestinian Prisoners, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In my latest for Babylon Times, hosted by Souciant, I look at two subjects that each demand their own justice: Gilad Shalit and the many Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

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Goodbye to All That

Posted in Israel, Palestine, Peace Plans, United States, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »

After Congress sounded the death knell for the two-state solution last month, it’s worth looking at how it might have worked in order to come up with new and practical ideas for the future. Taking off from Jerry Haber’s critique of what he termed “Liberal Zionist” failures in envisioning two states, I offer an view [...]

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We Interfere, Palestinians Pay the Price: A Neverending Story

Posted in Palestine, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Once again, outside interference in Palestinian affairs caused severe harm to Palestinians, and also set back the very ambitions those outsiders wished to advance. For at least the past year, Professor Nathan Brown has been putting forth a nuanced view of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad with the goal of trying to break the Western [...]

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A Damaging Hoax: A Gay Girl in Syria (UPDATED)

Posted in Arab Spring, Syria, tagged , , , , , , on June 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

[NOTE: Updating now that the Syrian government has cheerily started reporting on this: "MacMaster's hoax aimed at enhancing continuous fabrications and lies against Syria in term of kidnapping bloggers and activists." MacMaster claims he is trying to "educate" others about the conditions in the Mideast. Yet he didn't think of how the Syrian government could use his [...]

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Obama: Losing the Middle East

Posted in Arab Spring, Barack Obama, Egypt, tagged , , , , , , , on June 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

In the early days of the Egyptian revolution, before Hosni Mubarak stepped down, as the Obama administration was still trying to figure out a stance, the idea that the United States would not support their friend and loyal partner Mubarak prompted many conservative columnists to opine that Obama was going to go down in history [...]

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