September 18, 2009
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“My son was sitting behind me,” he said. “He was shot in the head and his brains were all over the back of the car.” Razzaq remembered, “When I held him, his head was badly wounded, but his heart was still beating. I thought there was a chance and I rushed him to the hospital. The doctor told me tha…
This week the editors of The New York Times’s sprang to the defense of Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner following weeks of controversy over his son’s service in the Israeli Defense Forces. …
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It is always true both that every era requires a new politics and that every new politics comes about through a real break with its own tradition. But on the other hand, it may not always be politically valuable to put emphasis upon this break.
(Discussion)An article by Noam Chomsky from The New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967
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Joshua Tabor admitted that he submerged her face – upwards – three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.
Confess your ABCs!
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A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order to minimise military casualties during last year’s Gaza war, The Independent can reveal.
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Rawabi, itself, is not problematic. Rather the growing, fanciful discourse that it fits into, a discourse that emphasises development before independence, is the greater cause for alarm. This is evident in a new document by the Palestinian Authority (PA) entitled Palestine: Moving Forward about the …
Finally some voices against the crazy Rawabi plan.
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“I don’t remember his exact words,” she says. “But basically he told me, ‘Before we get started, we want you to know that this is a democratic country, and we respect other points of view. But we found things on your external hard drive that are very concerning.’ He was sure I had some other objecti…
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UN team find remains of aircraft-dropped bombs, contradicting Israeli report on military conduct during three-week conflict
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September 18, 2009
Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover, replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented Triple Canopy’s status as the pre-eminent provider of private security services in Iraq, with its heavily armed employees appearing side by side with senior State Department diplomats.
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