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A steady throb of anti-Muslim sentiment appears to be running through the current campaign
There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC's Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation's generally excellent World Service radio. Davies was in Tunisia to find out how its remaining 2,000 Jews (down from 300,000 once upon a time) were responding to a call from an Israeli government minister for them to move to Israel.
I'm no stranger to Israel and Palestine, still what shocks me about coming here is how blatant the system of unfairness is. Why is this not utterly familiar to me? I wonder. Why don't Americans see this every day in the news? What kind of fairyland image are we getting of this place, and why? Or as the Canadian Christian pilgrim said to me last night leaving Qalandiya checkpoint, "What endless humiliation. And why is it such an open secret back home?" So everything here brings me back to the American denial, our blindered media, and to American Jewish identity and the lies that American Jews have told one another for generations.
"Commenced on Tuesday July 11, 1882 at seven o'clock in the morning from where the Tanjor was anchored we could see the whole thing quite clearly through our glasses. To a civilian who had never seen warfare the spectacle was magnificent."
Unlike the boycott of South Africa, which took 25 years to have a significant effect, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, which began in the Occupied West Bank in 2005, is already having an effect, according to Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian academic and cultural boycott of Israel (PACIB).
In the mind of the Arab masses the brilliant Arab youth managed to make a paradigm shift from how-did-we-get-here to how-can-we-move-forward.
(Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 11:00PM) Disaster in the North of Israel, at least 40 dead as fire rages across the Carmel Mountains. A mass evacuation has begun.
A woman writes a beseeching letter to her husband who is away traveling on business:
Making people pay more for energy to reduce consumption and to encourage conservation is a good idea but it is important that the costs are shared in an equitable fashion and that the poor and middle-class Canadians do not pay more than their fair share.
(Cartoon with permission. Randy Bish/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). When the G20 Summit is in progress in Pittsburgh next week The Canadian Charger will be there covering it.
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.