Congress gets a conscience?

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in Current Events | No Comments »

The House of Representatives is preparing a bill that will cut US aid to Egypt, which is the second largest recipient of US money next to Israel. "The $200 million cut is substantial," said Rep. James Moran, a Virginia Democrat on ...

The brilliant scholars of Syracuse University

Friday, June 8th, 2007 Posted in Current Events | No Comments »

This time, Laurence Thomas of Syracuse University has written a post called "Angry Muslim Arabs and the Black Man" (as if the response he got to his earlier post about there being no Muslim marches for peace was based on ...

Kenneth Stern on the UK boycott of Israeli universities

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Current Events | No Comments »

“Even if one is troubled by the idea that one could be invited or disinvited because of their politics, it’s very different than saying that someone should be barred because they’re Israeli,” said Kenneth Stern, the American Jewish Committee’s director ...

Nahr al-Barid

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Current Events | 1 Comment »

It is interesting to see how the "War on Terror" is playing out in different contexts. I am especially amused that its victim last summer is now its chief executioner. Is that how it works, then? And they tell you ...

Hasan Nasrallah on the war on terror

Sunday, May 27th, 2007 Posted in Current Events | No Comments »

According to a translation by Mideastwire.com, Hasan Nasrallah, in his--very good--speech on May 25, the 7th anniversary after the partial Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, said this with regards to the Lebanese Army's indiscriminate attacks on the Nahr el Barid ...