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21-Mar-17: Gaza’s Hamas-driven terrorism: no longer just in Gaza

March 21, 2017 Ian

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/D-5npTYDkZk/21-mar-17-gazas-hamas-driven-terrorism.html A mass of green: Not Gaza but Hamas supporters rally during student elections on the campus of Birzeit University, near Ramallah April 26, 2016 [Image Source: AFP] Hamas along with some of its smaller […]

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose …

March 21, 2017 Ian

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/03/plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose.htmlBy Daphne Anson   “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” So observed the French wit Alphonse Karr in 1849. Looking through a newspaper collection recently for something entirely unrelated to the […]

Medieval polemic by neo-Muslim unearthed

March 21, 2017 Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/03/medieval-polemic-by-neo-muslim-unearthed.html Thousands of Jews are known to have converted to Islam under the 13th century fundamentalist rule of the Almohads and Almoravids in Spain and North Africa, but not much of their literary work survives.  […]

Haaretz pursues Mizrahi ‘bridge-building’ mirage

March 20, 2017 Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/03/haaretz-pursues-mizrahi-bridge-building.htmlIn the 100th anniversary year of the Balfour Declaration, Ofer Aderet at Haaretz pursues the will o’wisp of the binational state by evoking those  Mizrahi ‘bridge-builders’ in the 20th century who advocated a ‘shared’ existence […]

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