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BREAKING: Sami Al-Arian Released on Bond
KABOBfest has received word that Dr. Sami Al-Arian was just granted a release on bond after about five-and-a-half years in government detention. He can await further legal proceedings with a family who could only see him in prisons and detention facilities when they could have access to him. His next legal challenge is a government [...]
Drilling Ms. Alaska
FAYYAD: The new veep candidate is kinds cute… she’s making me give the republican ticket a thought. any one knows if she’s into casual dating?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/29palin.html FADI: american politics sickens me. clearly she’s being tokenized. WILL: Did McCain throw the election away? Or is this going to make Obama’s “change” rhetoric carry less weight? With 5 [...]
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Occupation? What occupation? There is no occupation!(L-R: Ziad Asali and Rafi Dajani)
Israel is a Beacon of Democracy
I don’t understand how anybody can refer to Israel as a colonial power. Sure, Israel steals Palestinian land, builds illegal Jewish-only settlements on stolen Palestinian lands, and illegally transfers its civilian population to said settlements. But to refer to Israel as a colonial power is simply absurd! Israel, the civilized, is a beacon of democracy [...]
Al Jazeera at the AIPAC Conference
Check this, AIPAC can’t handle Al Jazeera at last week’s conference: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPJsx5dG0tc]
LIVNI LA VIDA LOCA: Spitfire-side Chat
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, seen here raising a finger during her April visit to Qatar, may have used her visit to stick up for Shimon Peres’ hurt feelings. (What kind of a weird flicking-off that is, and more significantly why the AFP posted this as their main closeup of Livni is beyond me.) There [...]
Self-Hating Jews
From the Guardian, these Jews hate themselves because they believe in equality between Arabs and Jews. I mean, how dare they talk about Plan Dalet and the Yitzhak Rabin-admitted ethnic cleansing of Lydda and Ramleh as bad things: “In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of [...]
Palestinian deaths, the Sean Bell verdict, and Desentization-The Spitfire-side Chats
As one Kabob-er noted, sometimes our internal conversations on the listserv are more interesting than our actual posts. The following is a conversation between Kabob-ers regarding the “Wiping out a family is how Israel says ‘no’” post written by Mohammad: Excen-Tarik: I started to write (about the story) and I was too tired to be [...]
KGIA Update
The New York Times today has a long article on the struggle of Debbie Almontaser, an educator who played a crucial role in the establishment of the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) that opened its doors last September. Almontaser was sidelined as the school’s first Principal by the Mayor’s office after a campaign by various [...]
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