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November
2009
This is one among many realities that we wish would be too bad to be true. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the prominent right-wing spiritual leader in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has openly condoned Jews killing any non-Jews, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel. In his new book, the warmongering Rabbi asserts: “If a gentile endangers the existence of Israel, it is allowed to kill him. Also if he is completely not to blame for the situation that has been created.” He might have well said that a genocide of non-Jews (no doubt referring primarily to Arabs) along Holocaust lines is kosher too…
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October
2009
President Obama has now reached a pinnacle of global popularity cults matched only by Che Guevara. Cults of personality are a constant throughout human history, but in recent times they have been primarily based on nationality, race and/or ideology, a powerful propaganda machine and a perception of merit (think Nelson Mandela, Adolf Hitler, George Washington and Mao Zedong). Obama has now earned himself a place among them and others, and has bettered them in certain respects…
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October
2009
There is also an unacknowledged impetus bringing Chicago ahead of Rio rooted in the origins of the games themselves…
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September
2009
Five years after a breakthrough deal by which the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said farewell to arms, its last remaining primary opponent, the Ulster Defense League (UDA), agreed to do the same by February 2010…
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September
2009
Non-violent demonstrations in Israel by once warmly welcomed Jewish Ethiopian immigrants were shut down by police while political leaders sought an 11th hour deal to allow black students into schools, reminding many of the anti-segregation struggles in the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s…
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August
2009
For the fist time since wartime atrocities began in Darfur six years ago, the region’s peacekeeping chief has declared that hostile military actions have ceased. However, this does not mean the there is peace in Darfur.
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August
2009
The criminal probe announced by US Attorney General Eric Holder into CIA agents who interrogated “inhumanely” is a copout move for the Obama administration, who should have gone after those who ordered and supervised them too.
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August
2009
An innovative conference bringing together scholars and organizers of Islamic communities across Europe is now taking place in Caux, Switzerland, lead by an inter-faith peace group with a storied and successful past, making clear their concerns for peace and threats to it in the present and future…
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August
2009
An email from Democratic National Committee Executive Director Jen O’Malley Dillon makes clear the imminent danger mobocracy in America presents to the burgeoning experiments in participatory democracy. The “five facts about the anti-reform mobs” she presents are shocking…
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July
2009
The Taliban are circulating a 13-chapter code of conduct for their fighters in Afghanistan, requiring them to avoid harming civilians and members of the country’s fragile government. What is involved in this Islam-based code of military conduct?
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