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Nordstream Isle

Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,A tale of a fateful tripThat started from this Baltic portAboard this tiny ship.The mate was a mighty sailing man,The Skipper brave and sure.Five passengers set sail that dayFor a gas pipeline … Continue reading

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Ukraine references

Here are some references on the Ukraine war, starting with 13 articles by Olga Sukharevskaya, a Ukrainian diplomat and jurist now residing in Moscow. She started writing them early 2022, as the crisis developed, before Russian forces entered Ukraine on … Continue reading

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Zionism lobbies the empires

 Clark, Harry F. Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Volume 14, Number 3, 1 September 2020, pp. 266-286(21) Review of: A Broken Trust: Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, Sahar Huneidi, foreword by Walid Khalidi (2001) London: I. B. Tauris, … Continue reading

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Damascus: Pearl of the Desert

PROFESSOR R. J. ROBINSON Assiut Training College, Assiut, Egypt The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Mar., 1909) Among the Arabs Damascus is known by several picturesque names, each derived from some characteristic of the city itself. Its inhabitants assert that it … Continue reading

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Fawlty Zionist Towers

Basil! Yes Sybil? Haven’t I told you never to play Israel? Yes… but… well… What, Basil? What don’t you understand? It’s special. I will show them how to make a Waldorf salad. Basil! Their comics will use the act and … Continue reading

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Evening at the Talk House

a play by Wallace Shawn The evening depicted in Wallace Shawn’s  most recent play  is a meeting of the company of a play, convened on the tenth anniversary of its opening, at the Talk House, an old theater district club. … Continue reading

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Ms. Weir Goes to Washington

(On CounterPunch September 9, 2016, 6900 words, and below. The scurrilous attack in summer, 2015 on Alison Weir and If Americans Knew by Jewish Voice for Peace and US Campaign to End the Occupation, has threatened Weir and her audiences with violence. … Continue reading

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Dying to Forget the Israel Lobby

PDF with notes at Dying to Forget the Israel Lobby? on CounterPunch April 22, 2016 by Harry Clark Irene Gendzier makes two main claims about US Middle East policy in the late 1940s in her book, Dying to Forget. Oil, Power, Palestine and … Continue reading

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The Ecumenical Deal, 2.0

In 1992, Marc Ellis wrote an important article for the time, “Beyond the Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which appeared in The Link, published by Americans for Middle East Understanding.  Ellis found that “the Jewish progressive consensus position … Continue reading

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Invader of the Jewish State

Haneen Al Zoubi in the US Haneen Al Zoubi, champion of democracy and embattled Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, spoke in the northeastern US in late April. Al Zoubi is from Nazareth in the Galilee, northern Israel/Palestine, whose population … Continue reading

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