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Point of no return: Jewish 'nakba' starts to enter the mainstream
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:21 PM EDT ()
I hope it's not wishful thinking, but do I get the feeling that talk of the Jewish 'nakba' is beginning to enter the mainstream media? Established and influential journalists like Jeffrey Goldberg are beginning to challenge the Palestinian 'narrative' by referring to the 850,00 …
A different history of displacement and loss
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 2:06 PM EDT ()
On May 15, many in the Arab world and elsewhere mark the Nakba, or the “Catastrophe,” mourning the displacement of the Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 war with Israel. This year, as always, the commemoration will obscure the collapse at the same time of a differen …
The Real Palestinian Refugee Problem
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:40 PM EDT (National Review Online)
By Clifford D. May "After World War II, the British left India, which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One of them would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. More than 7 million Muslims moved to the territory that became Pakistan. A simila …
An about-face - acid and Israel
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:17 AM EDT (JPost.com)
Ugandan pastor and terrorism victim Umar Mulinde describes his horrifying experience, newfound appreciation for Israel.
Lies, damned lies and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 9:09 AM EDT ()
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its annual "nakba" report where it tries to twist numbers to make Israel look as bad as possible. Just a quick glance through it shows a number of lies as well as more evidence that the PA has no real interest in peace …
What to Watch This Weekend: Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion"
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:11 PM EDT (New Yorker)
[...] Renoir had had the experience of war; he had been wounded; he had seen the ruin caused by the First World War; and no one but a bloodthirsty madman or a jingoistic armchair general could have wished a reprise. But in his depiction of the noble yet prejudiced Rauffe …
Two Sassoons, Vidal and Siegfried
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:55 PM EDT (New Yorker)
The old Sephardic surname “Sassoon” was shared by two Englishmen who had little in common other than their good looks, their military valor, their love of sport, their glory in separate spheres, and their longevity. For me, however, they had a meaningful rela …
Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser and Trendsetter, Dies at 84
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:39 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Vidal Sassoon, whose mother had a premonition that he would become a hairdresser and steered him to an apprenticeship in a London shop when he was 14, setting him on the path that led to his changing the way women wore and cared for their hair, died on Wednesday at his home …
Peacemaking mythologies from Taba to Olmert
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 7:50 AM EDT ()
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interviewed last Friday by CNN’s Christiana Ammanpour and sought to give his audience the impression that he had been on the verge of a historical peace agreement with Mahmoud Abbas in 2008, and only because of the interference of ind …
Hamas Beats Protesters Demanding Freedom
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 2:38 PM EDT (Arutz Sheva News Briefs)
Hamas security forces wearing masks and wielding batons and rifle butts forcibly "dissolved" a protest against the "suppression of freedom" in Gaza.Thursday's rally was staged by Gaza residents and supporters from Egypt decrying the Hamas administration's systemic repression of …
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