Pepe Escobar writes with regard to my posting about Brazil’s granting of asylum to Palestinian refugees expelled from Palestine by the Israeli military in 1948, who had taken refuge in Iraq but have now been forced out of that country, as well. Escobar writes regularly for the Asia Times and has a recent book, Red […]
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Global Affairs: Israel Peace Conference; and Roy on the Neocons
At the Global Affairs group blog: Gershon Shafir writes ‘ The focus of political debate in Israel between now and November will be the planned Peace Conference. Two approaches seem to be shaping up. One is expressed by the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, who argues that no withdrawal from the West Bank should take […]
MESA Letter on Mearsheimer & Walt
The Committee on Academic Freedom (North America) of the Middle East Studies Association has written a letter protesting the cancellation of a talk by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt scheduled by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. CCGA maintains that the speakers, authors of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, needed to be balanced […]
Wiping Off Face Of Map
Wiping off the Face of the Map (Reprint) This bothered enough of the right people that I thought I’d reprint from Saturday. Note for the humorless: it is an editorial photo-cartoon, not news analysis. A Beirut neighborhood before and after Israeli indiscriminate bombing The difference between Ahmadinejad and Olmert is that the Iranian president is […]
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