Tag Archives: Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority

cinema noir: puppet show

Of course the film itself is idiotic, hateful, and poorly made. A hate crime in itself. To claim it cost $7 million to make is absurd. So, either it was a convenient pretext for an attack that may have been … Continue reading

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the resisters

To some, Sheikh Scapa is another terrorist, to others he is a martyr engaged in a holy act, pleasurable to Allah in taking out the enemy. Resistance, violent and deadly resistance being morally acceptable given the nature of Israel’s occupation … Continue reading

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fill the void: the voidoid zone

Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading

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thin red lines: the millionaires

Shower the people. Israel’s Netanyahu is now enmeshed in the psychology of red lines. Are these lines in the geometric mosaic of Islam or his own slash and crash style of scribble? In any event, the logic is that given … Continue reading

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thinking and taking the book out of the box

Mitt Romney and Israel still making waves or hay as he tries to throw Obama into the barn. Its all B.S. but gives the pundits what to wax on, or better yet to chew and spit out. Frankly, Sheldon Adelson … Continue reading

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romney care: lamentations on the ill-timed pursuit

Face it, people like to complain. Give them a mic, a keyboard or a public forum and the discontent pours out; a lamentation worthy of the Western Wall magnitude. Add to that the Jewish holidayof Tisha B’Av which remembers the … Continue reading

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this hour has 9 minutes and 11 seconds

Part of the long and victorious march of image over substance? Arafat. still a celebrity. Still a locus for the communal lives of many. It is one of those incomprehensible and unexplainable side effects whereby a manufactured pop culture icon … Continue reading

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