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...many ways, Rubinger's history parallels that of Israel. Born in 1924 in Vienna, he became a Zionist socialist and migrated to Palestine, escaping the Holocaust, which consumed his mother and many relatives. After the war for independence - or as Palestinians call it, al naqba, the disaster - Rubinger was too much of a maverick to be anything but a photojournalist. His first internationally published shots were of a small diplomatic incident: a patient in a Catholic hospital on the Green Line had dropped her false teeth out the window onto the Jordanian side, and after much negotiation, the nuns were...
...Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. In the invitation to their event, the Nakba Committee quotes Pappé’s book, “Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:” “On May 15, 1948, leaders of the Zionist movement declared the formation of the State of Israel on the land of Palestine. They proceeded to implement their long held plan to ethnically cleanse the indigenous majority Palestinian Arab population from Palestine in order to constitute a Jewish majority-dominated state. War ensued.” Pappé misleadingly decontextualizes...
...Hamas’ genocidal rhetoric is not limited to Israel, however. They have also begun advocating attacks on Americans. “America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons,” a 2006 Hamas spokesman said. In a speech on April 11, a Hamas cleric who is a minister of the Palestinian parliament preached that Islam would soon conquer Rome, “the capital...
...summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing his dissertation on a minor figure of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Sam ends up visiting Israel and the occupied territories after failing in his attempt to write the Zionist epic and then getting fed up with his job as a temp at a bank.However, the novel is burdened by a sense that nothing happens. It stagnates because the characters just aren’t truly relatable and can’t evoke sympathy. They are all narrow variations of the same...
...depending on other factors - a candidate's views on the failing economy or the Iraq war - but McCain's support of Israel may tip the balanced in his favor. Recently, McCain sought and obtained a controversial endorsement from Texas televangelist, Pastor John Hagee, a key figure in the Christian Zionist movement backing Israel and its expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories. Hagee is instrumental in drumming up funds and political support in Washington for Israel...