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• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • thank you for this.  avi shlaim has also written a very informative book on the history of the area.  it's a little dry, it basically reads like the history book that it is, but it offers invaluable information to anyone who wants to understand the issues of today without a …

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • WWI, not II

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • SnipKlr - I can't tell if the first of your last responses was meant for this post.  I think you're quoting someone else, right?

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • If you refuse to see otherwise, before even hearing what I have to say, then I appreciate when you did use accurate data.  Genocide is never okay. oh, and that quote is an ignorant one, or histrionic, or both.

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • I am quite aware of the UN Partition Plan of 1948.  I'm also aware that it was the Palestinians and other Arab countries who started the 48 war, and who did not agree with the plan. "repressed their rage for millenia"  is NOT history, by the way. 

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • Palestine was 7% Jewish before the Zionist movement (20th century Zionist movement, not the failure of the late nineteenth century Zionist movement).  Not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone, but trying to use actual facts during these conversations.

• In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background

  Tue Jan 6, 2009
  • Not knowing the difference and the differences between sunnis and shiites is made our Iraq War blow up in our faces.  This same ignorance, which allows outsiders to lump Hamas and Iran together regardless of their ideological differences, allows us to justify hundreds of civilian …

• Is America still in denial of White Privilege?

  Mon Sep 15, 2008
  • I am not talking about racism, I'm talking about white privilege. They are in no way the same thing. People have to be able to talk about race relations without jumping to racism. It's an aversion tactic.

• Is America still in denial of White Privilege?

  Mon Sep 15, 2008
  • I think you did a great service just by writing this article and getting people to talk about it with each other. That's a beautiful thing. Thank you. I mean it, we need more people to step up and be willing to be the voice that's heard, and to tilt our ears closer to what comes next.

• Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator

  Mon Sep 15, 2008
  • This is getting worse and worse. This woman had a clean slate coming into the VP candidacy. When has that ever, historically, happened? And look what she's done to that clean slate. She stated she had nothing to hide and pledged to assist the independent counsel.