Friday, August 30, 2013

Damascus: What to do to prepare for US airstrikes

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From the twitter feed of someone living in Damascus ( https://twitter.com/d_sights ): d_sights 21m 7- took a deep breath and relaxed...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

New York Times: Proof of Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria

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The New York Times has a detailed report on the nerve gas attack in Syria: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of sick and dying Syrians had flood...

Report from Doctors Without Borders about nerve gas attack in Syria

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I just received this email from Doctors without Borders (because I'm a donor). As you may have heard, Doctors Without Borders/Méd...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Will Obama finally intervene in Syria?

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A Tweet by the Guardian: Observer front page: Cameron and Obama on the brink of Syria intervention http://t.co/1Iam2cm1FA — The Guardian ...

More on Syria

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Guardian article on -  Did Assad's ruthless brother mastermind alleged Syria gas attack? [M]aher al-Assad has in many ways played a mo...

Additional proof of nerve gas attack in Syria from Doctors Without Borders

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Doctors Without Borders, which both has medical personnel in Syria and gives support to medical facilities in the Damascus area, reports tha...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Nostalgia for the good old days of Stalin: John Wight on homophobia in Putin's Russia

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In case you thought the nonsense about "pinkwashing" was limited to castigating Israel for being a relatively decent place to live...

Yemen Was Once a Powerful Arabian Kingdom Run by Jews

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Jacob Mikanowski in Tablet has a really interesting article on a Jewish kingdom in Yemen just before the rise of Islam:  Yemen, the Crucible...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Over a hundred Palestinian prisoners to be released - almost all murderers

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The Israeli government will probably be releasing over a hundred Palestinian prisoners (almost all of them murderers) as part of the process...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Jerusalem from Har Gilo

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A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine took me up to the top of Har Gilo (Mt. Gilo), which is just south of Jerusalem, across the Green Lin...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

New EU guidelines limit funding to pre-1967 borders of Israel

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The EU has just issued new guidelines for funding entities in Israel which restrict grants to the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel. This means ...
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"The Gate of Mercy" - for a sad Tisha B'Av

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This is a beautiful song by Meir Banai, for Tisha B'Av   THE GATE OF MERCY  I going around in the old city and noise comes from...

Confirmed: Fracking Triggers Quakes and Seismic Chaos

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Fracking Triggers Quakes and Seismic Chaos I haven't been that eager to jump on the bandwagon against fracking, despite the fact that i...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

More on Semitic cats

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I should be heading off to the library to work on my chapter on Testament of Job , Joseph and Aseneth , and Philo, instead of writing blog p...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

The Templers: How the German Colony (and Emek Refaim) got their names

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The BBC News magazine  has a fascinating article today on the "Templers: German settlers who left their mark on Palestine." In th...