Yossi was sick and Skyped me this morning.
He thought that he could share the pain, but I was having none of it. I’ll do a lot for friends, but taking on a nasty bout of food poisoning is right over the line.
However, Yossi DID succeed in dropping a bomb on me. He very casually said, [...]
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Posted in Honor Roll, Islam, Society on Feb 15th, 2007
I am always on the lookout for new additions to my growing Honor Roll, and today I have a new addition:
Irshad Manji
She lives under threat of death every day and has little chance of dying of old age. Someone, somewhere, someday is going to kill her.
Why?
Because she is a Muslim that dares to lay bare [...]
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Posted in Honor Roll, Media, Palestinians on Jan 31st, 2007
Yesterday’s post featured the comments of a brave and clear thinking Arab journalist, Khaled Abu Toameh. Whenever I find an article like the one he wrote yesterday, I search the web for more of what he says, and where he can be found.
I didn’t find any site dedicated to him, but I did find a [...]
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Posted in Honor Roll, Palestinians on Jan 30th, 2007
You would think that, with all that’s happened to the Palestinians, Hamas would be suffering from a ‘bad smell’.
Not so.
In his article last Thursday, Analysis: A year after elections, Hamas riding high, Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh says:
In a speech in Gaza City, Haniyeh boasted that “Zionist schemes” had failed to topple the “elected” government or force Hamas to abandon [...]
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Posted in America, Honor Roll on Jan 4th, 2007
Elliot Jager wrote an interesting article for the Jerusalem Post, and you can find the piece here.
At heart it’s all about cynicism.
Elliot has a pretty heavy case of it, just as I do. Don’t stand too close to us. It’s catching.
We Americans like to think that we’re the good guys.
Actually, we aren’t. We’re just the [...]
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