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March 15, 2010
6:56
Quote of the Week: Karl Deutsch
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"A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbors". - Karl Deutsch, Nationality and Its Alternatives, 1969 (cited by Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People,...
March 12, 2010
7:11
Isaac Asimov On Antisemitism And The Universality Of Prejudice
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Alain Gresh posted this extract from the autobiography of the late science fiction author Isaac Asimov a few weeks ago on Le Monde Diplomatique blog. The extract was about prejudice and persecution; specifically about Asimov's discomfort at the fact that...
March 11, 2010
9:25
Nobody - With The Possible Exception Of Hannah Arendt - Could Have Predicted
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...that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the...
March 09, 2010
10:23
France's Proposal For Early Recognition Of The Palestinian State (2)
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(continued from yesterday) In a recent blog post, Alain Gresh of Le Monde surveyed recent French pronouncements on the establishment of a Palestinian state, and considered what they amount to. The first item he referenced was an interview that French...
March 08, 2010
8:49
France's Proposal For Early Recognition Of The Palestinian State
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In a recent blog post (Recognizing a Palestinian state, a "new" idea?), Le Monde's distinguished Middle East correspondent, Alain Gresh, surveyed recent French pronouncements on the establishment of a Palestinian state, and considered what they amount to. The first item...
March 07, 2010
13:14
Quote of the Week: Nir Rosen
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"To call oneself an Israeli Zionist is to engage in the dispossession of an entire people". -- The Logic Of Colonial Power by Nir Rosen; The Guardian, 29 Dec 2008. Cartoon: From The Melborne Age, 3 Mar 2010 (via Palestinian...
March 05, 2010
15:53
If the U.S. Carried Out Ethnic Cleansing, Why Shouldn't Israel?
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I'm always pleased to hear people argue that Americans shouldn't criticize Israel for being a nation created and maintained through ethnic cleansing, seeing as the United States was established through ethnic cleansing too. Not because I think it's a persuasive...
15:40
Liberal Ha'aretz Strikes Again
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Ha'aretz online has a Reuters photo running on its front page right now. (click to enlarge) Interesting change that Ha'aretz has made to the original accompanying caption. Here's the original: (click to enlarge) Very professional. Very liberal.
March 03, 2010
7:03
No Such Thing As Liberal Zionism
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Just look at these numbers. 1. This table [1] shows the population of Palestine when Zionists first arrived to pioneer their Jewish state. (click to enlarge) The year of the first Zionist immigration was 1299 (Muslim calendar), or 1881/2 of...
March 02, 2010
10:19
Quote Of The Week: Dror Etkes
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"Through the political debate taking place within Israel, we discover time and again that many Israelis refuse to reconcile themselves to a basic historical truth, which apparently threatens the sense of national justice many of them were raised and educated...
February 28, 2010
18:21
"The Right Of Any Civilised Human Being"
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We understand the right of return perfectly well when it suits us. Like, for example, when we're talking about refugees from the former Yugoslavia. 1. UNHCR effort in Balkans attracts strong criticism from Oxfam; The Irish Times (cached), 19 May...
February 16, 2010
14:41
Why Would Anyone Think It's Apartheid?
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1. "During his visit two weeks ago to Israel, former Italian prime minister Massimo D'Alema hosted a small group of Israelis - public figures and former diplomats - to a dinner at a Jerusalem hotel. The conversation quickly turned to...
February 11, 2010
12:00
Quote of the Week: Yehoshofat Harkabi
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"Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would...
February 07, 2010
13:55
On Why Zionism Dehumanizes Its Enemies
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This is all a bit ironic, in view of Israel's insistence that Hamas doesn't play fair because it hides weapons in mosques, forcing Israel to bomb them. Two Israeli curators on Thursday stumled (sic) upon an arms cache dating back...
February 04, 2010
6:46
Nobody Could Have Predicted (Part 6)
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...that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the...
February 03, 2010
9:10
Religious Lunatic Threatens To Wipe Entire Nation Off Map
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Everybody knows Mahmoud Ahmedinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the map, even though he didn't, and that he is a therefore a freaky fundamentalist genocidal maniac. At last month's Holocaust commemoration at Auschwitz, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran is "the...
7:39
Nobody Could Have Predicted (Part 5)
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...that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the...
February 02, 2010
7:49
Quote of the Week: Elisheva Michaeli
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"In 1948 I was nineteen years old, with a five-month old baby, when a soldier knocked on the door and told me that I had just become a widow. Since then, Independence Day is for me a day of mourning....
February 01, 2010
22:19
Scary Black People
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It was only yesterday, as I was weeding through some old articles I'd once bookmarked as potential posts in my Ha’aretz-is-a-piece-of-crap series, that I finally managed to really put my finger on what it was that had irked me about...
January 28, 2010
14:11
When Zionists Defended Terrorism By People Under Occupation
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From The Times (of London), 19 July 2008: A pamphlet warning Britons to leave the Middle East or face death has come to light in a stash of illicit propaganda. The document does not hail from Basra or Baghdad, nor...
12:37
Price Tags: Not Just For Palestinians
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Apparently there was a diplomatic incident at an Israeli checkpoint near Jenin a couple of months ago, when U.S. consular officials refused to open their car doors and make themselves available for a security check when stopped by Israeli security...
8:55
RIP Howard Zinn
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The Optimism of Uncertainty By Howard Zinn September 2, 2004I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate;...
January 27, 2010
11:32
Quote of the Week: Walid Khalidi
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Every time the Palestinian resistance is clobbered, or appears to be so, there is new hope in some quarters that the Palestinian component of the Arab-Israeli conflict will somehow disappear from the Middle Eastern scene. Such was the case after...
January 26, 2010
7:10
When Zionists Loved Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
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Today you can hardly utter the acronym BDS without hearing that the very idea is anti-semitic. But in the February 1921 edition of The Atlantic Magazine, Prof. Albert T. Clay (Assyrologist at the University of Pennsylvania) described how the Zionist...
January 25, 2010
7:09
Dogs
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1. -- From Ferris State University's Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow? 2. -- From Ferris State University's Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow? 3. -- "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs"; from Indymedia.ie 4. As...
January 24, 2010
16:50
Some Of My Best Friends Are Olympic Swimmers
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I wonder if Israelis have any idea how odd the ethnic-nationalist view of the world sounds to 21st century American ears? (link)
January 23, 2010
12:30
But The Wall Stopped The Suicide Bombings And Wouldn't You Want A Wall If Your Neighbors Were Trying To Kill You etc etc etc
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I see that Adam at Mondoweiss has written a post today about the Separation Wall in the West Bank, and the cost it imposes on the people who live there. Whenever you see a blog post on the subject, it...
January 22, 2010
15:01
Quote of the Week: Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit
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"When I talk in civics class about the Arab minority, and about its uniqueness in being a majority that became a minority, my students argue and say it's not true that they were a majority. When I go to the...
14:42
You’ve Been Rickrolled!
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Hmm, I wonder if Israeli military intelligence is still running that psyops unit that specializes in planting inflammatory stories in the Arab media, and urging Israeli newspapers to reproduce the phony “scoops” as if they were genuine news: The unit's...
January 17, 2010
22:50
Sari Nusseibeh: Interview With Le Figaro, 6 Jan 2010
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“A Palestinian State Has Become Impossible” For the pacifist Palestinian Sari Nusseibeh, Israel will soon have no choice but to integrate its Arab population. Sari Nusseibeh, Dean of al-Quds University in Jerusalem and committed Palestinian intellectual, was the author in...
September 19, 2009
16:18
Two Thousand Terrorists
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Twenty-nine years ago today. Sabra and Shatila; by Baha Boukhari for Al-Ayyam.
August 15, 2009
20:00
Quote of the Week: Aldous Huxley
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"Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and...
June 04, 2009
17:47
Amalek By The Fourth Of July
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The evolution of President Obama: On 31 May, he was an Egyptian Pharoah (via Mondoweiss); An Anti-Semitic Jew-hater by 3 June; Today, secretly German! My predictions: Hitler by this time next week; Amalek by July 4; Rodef by Thanksgiving.
May 18, 2009
14:32
Quote of the Week: Joseph Levine
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"I started to wonder what it would be like for Jews if Holocaust denial were not restricted to marginal figures, as it is now, but were widely accepted in the society in which they lived. This is what it is...
May 15, 2009
0:00
Nakba Day 2009: How many Palestinian Children Does It Take To Make A Jewish State In Palestine?
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Sixty-one years, sixty-one children you've probably never heard of. 1. Unidentified Palestinian girl (below left), one of the victims of a bomb attack in Jerusalem on 29 December 1947. Members of the Irgun militant Zionist group threw a bomb from...
May 05, 2009
20:07
Quote of the Week: Aharon Shabtai
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And when it’s all over, my dear, dear reader, on which benches will we have to sit, those of us who shouted “Death to the Arabs!” and those who claimed they “didn’t know”? -- Nostalgia (2002), by Aharon Shabtai Photo:...
May 03, 2009
16:23
Ha'aretz Meets The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations, And Still Manages To Fail
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I hear so many Americans talk gushingly about Ha'aretz that I always feel a bit like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas whenever I suggest that, despite having some remarkable quality journalists on its staff, Ha'aretz is overall far less "liberal"...
April 30, 2009
12:23
Nobody Could Have Predicted (Part IV)
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...that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the...
March 25, 2009
16:11
IDF Fashion Week 2009
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A post consolidating the various entries in the series, "Not Just A Slogan On A T-shirt": "The Smaller They Are, The Harder It Is!" [Quote] "The Smaller They Are, The Harder It Is!" [1] "The Smaller They Are, The Harder...
11:19
"If You Believe It Can Be Fixed, Then Believe It Can Be Destroyed!" [4]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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From Jean Said Makdisi’s memoir, Beirut Fragments: “After the Israelis left [Beirut in 1982], we began to hear of the most extraordinary aspect of the occupation. Arrests, harassments, shootings, even the obligatory looting: These were what everyone expected, and indeed,...
10:36
"Only God Forgives": It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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Aviv: "I am squad commander of a company that is still in training, from the Givati Brigade. We went into a neighborhood in the southern part of Gaza City. Altogether, this is a special experience. In the course of the...
10:17
"Let Every Arab Mother Know That Her Son's Fate Is In My Hands!" [3]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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A mother and son, both American citizens, were savagely beaten last week by Israeli security at the Israeli entry point from Jordan: Allenby Bridge. The victims were 47 year old Tina Hannouneh and her 17 year old son... Hannouneh, who...
9:11
"The Smaller They Are - The Harder It Is!" [8]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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1.'I can't imagine anyone who considers himself a human being can do this' On Friday a four-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by a soldier - the most recent child victim of the Israeli army. Chris McGreal investigates a shocking...
8:01
"Better Use Durex" [3]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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Some of the Palestinian children (excluding newborns) who died after being prevented from reaching medical treatment by Israeli soldiers manning IDF checkpoints inside the West Bank: 12 Aug 2001 - Azhar Said Abu Shalouf of Rafah, aged 2. 23 Aug...
March 24, 2009
23:02
"We Won't Chill Till We Confirm The Kill" [3]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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‘Another paediatrician and another baker Got a bullet in the face from a paratroopers unit All day we search houses and kill children’ - Extract from a song of an Israeli paratroopers’ unit that participated in Operation Calm Waters in...
21:35
"The Smaller They Are - The Harder It Is!" [7]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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IDF bullets killed 231 Palestinian children. That is, 85 percent of the children who were killed were shot. An accusation that has been appearing in all the reports published by human rights organizations in Israel and internationally is that IDF...
20:50
"You've Got To Run Fast, Run Fast, Run Fast, Before It's All Over! [2]": It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, breaking curfew to buy cigarettes for his father, was killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank last night, a witness said. The army said it was looking into the shooting. Abdel Salam Samreen, 12,...
19:34
"If You Believe It Can Be Fixed, Then Believe It Can Be Destroyed!" [3]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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No one deluded himself that the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, which takes up five of the eight floors of a new building in the center of El Bireh, would be spared the fate of other Palestinian Authority offices in Ramallah...
17:53
"Better Use Durex" [2]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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Children of Gaza: stories of those who died and the trauma for those who survived, by Rory McCarthy; The Guardian, 23 Jan 2009. 1. Abdul Rahim Abu Halima, aged 14 (click to enlarge) 2. Adham Mutair, 17 3. Amal Abed...
16:00
"The Smaller They Are - The Harder It Is!" [6]: It's Not Just A Slogan On A T-Shirt
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It is still. The camp waits, as if holding its breath. And then, out of the dry furnace air, a disembodied voice crackles over a loudspeaker. "Come on, dogs," the voice booms in Arabic. "Where are all the dogs of...

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