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Israel learned from its patron the art of righteous theft and killing

By / 38 Comments / 12 November 2017

Summary:  Just as the West’s endemic antisemitism has infected other nations in the Middle East (or exacerbated it), Israel acts out the West’s standard imperialist scripts on the Palestinians. Take the natives’ land, oppress them, and their violent reaction justifies repeating the cycle. In Israel today, as in the many previous times in Western history, …

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For Independence Day Egypt shows us how little love for democracy remains in America

By / 16 Comments / 12 November 2017

Summary: We see how far America has drifted from its roots that before Independence Day we hear words defending democracy similar to those of the Founders — and we mock them, siding with the Army overthrowing these elected representatives and the mob cheering them. I had an inspiring post for the fourth, but events have …

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Are Israel’s leaders insane? Jeffrey Goldberg thinks so.

By / 1 Comment / 12 November 2017

Summary:  The award for the most accurate title of the year:  “The Point of No Return“, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, September 2010.  Yes, attacking Iran would the point of no return for Israel.  I doubt they’ll do it.  The leaders of neither Iran nor Israel are psychos. Godlberg’s research finds a “a consensus emerged that …

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About security theater, a daily demonstration that Americans are sheep

By / 52 Comments / 9 June 2013

Comment by atheist in reply to “About Obama’s coronation – wisdom from Fred” (23 January 2009): Actually, though, I like Reed’s post on the malign vaudeville that we call ‘security‘, and I see that his conclusions are the exact same ones I have come to. So maybe the guy deserves another look. Fred Reed’s conclusions about security …

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