About the only difference between the Islamist far-right and the Christian (and Jewish) far-right is the tone.
Christian and Muslim Extremists: Power-Mad Brothers Under the Skin
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Israel
Robbing Peter to Pay Israel
Nearly 20 percent of the constituents of Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) live under the poverty line, and nearly 15 percent are unemployed. During this August congressional recess, Rep. Jackson, Jr. should be at home, meeting with constituents and proposing to them how he will help them cope with their difficult circumstances. Instead, the politician is proudly gallivanting around Israel, in one of three separate congressional delegations heading there this month on all-expense-paid junkets organized by the American Israel Education Foundation.
800-Pound Gorilla Straggles After Israeli Protesters
At a certain point, the issue of Israeli government support of settlers to the exclusion of the average Israeli will rear its ugly head in Israel’s protests.
Bibi’s Mind in Action: “Housing Crisis? I Have Just the Thing!”
The Israeli government spends twice as much on the average settler in the Occupied Territories as it does on the average Israeli citizen.
A Question of Friendship
Something tender about skin
and muscle framed by ancient stone.
The pyramids behind us in silhouette,
solid, rooted, entirely diagonal.
The night deepened,
the city’s glimmer distant.
Fadi drew on his smoke.
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On Heels of Anti-BDS Bill, Israel’s Right-Wing Parties Seek to Further Limit Dissent
One the bills that Israel’s right-wing parties seeks to pass proposes the creation of a “commission of inquiry” to investigate outspoken human rights groups like B’Tselem.
Other Mothers
Their sons who speak of a cause
As if it were their two feet
beneath them. That they could hold an idea
and a weapon at the same time.
Will Flotilla 13 Attack Freedom Flotilla 2?
Israel’s use of an elite branch of the Israeli Navy to interdict the Gaza flotilla was as if Washington had sent Green Berets to halt the Freedom Rides in the Deep South in 1961.
Israel and Iran: Partners in Plausible Nuclear Deniability
Those who oppose attacking Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities would better advance their cause by admitting Iran’s likely intention to at least field the capacity to, if not actually build, nuclear weapons.
Breaching the Wall through Art
The wall that divides Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is ugly and oppressive. It is far from a work of art. But now it is the subject of art. The Jerusalem Fund Gallery’s new exhibition “Breaching the Wall” displays works of 11 different artists that reflect their feelings and artistic reactions to this eight-meter-high concrete wall that runs for 520 kilometers (64 percent of the planned length).