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the lesson of 1989: Mr. Netanyahu, tear down this wall
Date: 11/09/2009
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Today will see many hagiographic pieces about Reagan from the right, but there's real value in learning about the complex historical context, and not enough credit I think given to Gorbachev. For great reading on this momentous day's history, see this excellent piece (and photo gallery) at NPR's Morning Edition, and this introspecti ...
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Deserve this! The Nobel Peace Prize Agenda for Obama
Date: 10/09/2009
President Obama is now a Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. There's enough in that statement alone to drive rightwing conservatives insane. And insane they certainly are, as others are ably and gleefully documenting . The general gist of the response by the Right is twofold, and predictably schizophrenic: 1. Obama has not accomplished enough in office to deserve the NPP, and 2. the NPP only awar ...
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Jimmy Carter's Price Tag
Date: 09/30/2009
You've got to admire Jimmy Carter. No matter how wrong he is, no matter how many times he is refuted, no matter how inane his ramblings, he just keeps on coming back for more. Forget the fact that he was eviscerated in a landslide election where the American people overwhelmingly voted to shoo him from the presidency. And forget the fact that historians and the public rate him as arguably the wor ...
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Acts and Mission 31
Date: 09/23/2009
With Paul looming on the horizon, Philip moves further on and evangelizes another person outside the flock of God: an Ethiopian eunuch. No doubt, a Gentile and probably not a proselyte. No doubt, from the ends of the earth. No doubt, castrated, and eunuchs are unfit for the Temple and, therefore, they have a lower status. Never mind these obstacles with the work of God in this world: the eunuch ...
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Saturn/Uranus: Revolution in Iran
Date: 09/20/2009
by Lynn Hayes Just after the opposition between Saturn and Uranus culminated last week, tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tehran on Friday in a rare show of opposition against the pro-Palestinian rhetoric of Iranian president Ahmadinejad whose anti-Israeli speeches on Jerusalem Day gave rise to chants like this one: "Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, I'll sacrifice my life for ...
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Muslims Worry Recession May Impact Ramadan Giving
Date: 08/21/2009
(UNDATED) Yousef Abdallah's annual Ramadan duties promise to be tougher than usual this year. The Islamic holy month starts Friday (Aug. 21) or Saturday (Aug. 22) night, depending on the sighting of the moon. Abdallah, a regional operations manager for Islamic Relief USA, one of the nation's largest Islamic charities, and his staff are preparing to travel from his office in Totowa, N.J., to about ...
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The Problem with Being a "Hawk" on Israel
Date: 08/04/2009
David Goldman recounts a classic Jewish joke and draws the right lesson for any discussion of Israel. It concerns a Jewish family that invites a poor man to Sabbath dinner. The hostess brings out a dish of smoked whitefish, and the poor man proceeds to wolf it down. Chagrined, the hostess says, "You know, whitefish is very expensive." Between mouthfuls the poor man replies, "Believe me -- it' ...
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human shields in Gaza for the IDF?
Date: 07/20/2009
One of the central rationalizations for the permissibility of "collateral damage" in warfare is that the enemy uses "human shields" - that militants are deliberately hiding among civilian populations so as to force the attacker to kill innocents if they decide to attack. I've argued for some time that collateral damage should be disavowed as a military doctrine , because the immorality of killin ...
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