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Though the U.S. and Israeli administrations paint Hamas’ rocket fire as unprovoked acts of terrorism, they fail to acknowledge the tortuous blockade as an underlying—though by no means invisible—cause of Hamas’ attacks. Moreover, American foreign policy has eliminated any possibilities...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Far from Self-Defense | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

Once upon a time in March, when the NASDAQ hit its record high of 5048 points, tech investors were seen all over Wall Street's bars and restaurants, hoisting microbrews and declaring they couldn't be bothered with the insipid Fed-watching that had gripped their Old Economy brethren ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How NASDAQ Became Afraid of the Big Bad Fed | 5/23/2000 | See Source »

The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke. To crowd Lewinsky and Rwanda into the same viewfinder is not just to discuss apples and oranges but to compare, forgive me, apples and severed heads. Each of the dramas discloses a nation in moral crisis, but as Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwandan Tragedy, Lewinsky Farce | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

But what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT A CUTE UNIVERSE YOU HAVE! | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

In the words of the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, since 1967, "The Israeli government has adopted a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in all matters relating to land expropriation, planning and building." It is this discrimination which explains why the majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oslo Accords Hurt Palestinians, Not Israelis | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

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