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Newsweek Article Suggests Appointing Bush as U.S. Mideast Envoy

Posted in Media Monitoring, State of the Republic, US Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Gregory Levey suggested in the Newsweek today that President Obama should appoint George W. Bush as his Mideast envoy to gain the trust of Israelis in order achieve the American “wish list” with the Israeli Government. The “full-court press” wishes are the following:
They want Israel to stop expanding settlements; to stop building Jewish neighborhoods in [...]

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Palestinian Scarf, Resistance ‘a la mod’

Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Picture taken from a magazine ad for a local radio station.
Today, you can hardly walk the streets of Damascus without passing by quite a few young men and women wearing Palestinian scarves, which at one point became a symbol of the resistance and the “Fida’ees”, a symbol of freedom fighters and an ever lingering dream [...]

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