"Israel is doomed," said a friend of mine some months ago, returning to the United States after a trip to Israel. I asked him why, and my friend, who spent 20 years working in a high level position in the Pentagon, answered, "They've put...
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04 August 2006
Through the actions of a lone man with an unstable mental history, the
Middle East wars have hit my community. Naveed Haq, from a middle class
Pakistani-American family in eastern Washington State, shot six women at
the Seattle Jewish...
29 July 2006
Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?
If...
If...
27 July 2006
AUSTIN, Texas -- State of play in the Middle East: Lebanon, extensively damaged plus a half-million refugees; Syria, tired of being dissed; Israel, disproportionate. Are you kidding? Did it work last time they occupied Lebanon? Condi Rice...
27 July 2006
I think Condi's right. As Israel wreaks biblical vengeance on Lebanon, we may well be witnessing, as she put it, "the birth pangs of a new Middle East." But the devil baby that crawls out of the wreckage will be one that makes even her...
26 July 2006
Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post
on Tuesday that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy
for the Israeli government.
“Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows...
“Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows...