Ralph Seliger writes: If my feelings about Iraq were so centered on Israel, wouldn’t I have continued to support the invasion even after the UN Security Council had voted against it? To me, the nightmare scenario is defining the Israeli-Arab…
Dayton’s newspaper reports a tear gas attack on a mosque there, affecting a lot of children. Dailykos makes the connection between the attack and the distribution of the free DVD of the anti-Muslim film “Obsession” by “McCain supporters” in swing…
By James North More current issues have pushed Darfur to the sidelines for now, but here’s a fascinating letter in the Financial Times from a southern Sudanese, John Achiek Deng. He is quite persuasive when he says: “In southern Sudan,…
One of the amazing things about the invasion of Iraq is that not only was it charted by neoconservatives, many of them Zionists who sought to secure Israel, but that unconsciously or not, these folks inhaled the Israeli view of…
My friend Steve F. has challenged me re Arab intolerance: The chief of Saudi Arabia’s highest tribunal has issued an edict that television station owners should be killed over “immoral” programming. In the article is also a rather humorous statement…
“Obsession,’ the fear-mongering movie produced by a Canadian-Israeli that suggests that Islam is trying to defeat the west and it’s 1938 all over again, costs $14.95 from its website. But it is being distributed free in copies of the New…
An amazing piece of reporting in The National about the Qubeisiat, a secretive women’s movement inside Islamic fundamentalism that has gained a foothold in secular Syria and is convincing young women to put on the hijab. Author Rhonda Roumani is…
My friend Steve F criticizes my blog: Phil: On your blog, you discuss one side’s distasteful actions without context or its rationale. Israel was not formed to be an ugly aggressor. Its actions have been shaped by its enemies’ actions,…
Another in the series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North: Here’s a link to the most important single magazine article I have read over at least the past 5 years; it appeared in the British publication Prospect. Bartle…