Because Nothing Expresses Patriotism Quite Like A Three Dollar Stars And Stripes Enamel Flag Pin, Mass-Produced For Walmart In A Beijing Sweatshop

May 16th, 2008 - 3:00 PM

(via) I am one of those whiny elitists who is sick to death of hearing about whether Barack Obama is wearing a flag pin in his lapel today, and what bearing this might have on his patriotism. The straw that...
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Nakba Day Quote Of The Day: Emile Zola

May 15th, 2008 - 4:45 AM

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." -- From the open...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Milan Kundera

May 14th, 2008 - 4:35 AM

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting".-- From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, chapter 2, part 1; by Milan Kundera. Photo: Vandalized sign in Canada Park, near Latrun in the West Bank; by...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Gideon Levy

May 12th, 2008 - 9:02 PM

"Look at this prickly pear plant. It's covering a mound of stones. This mound of stones was once a house, or a shed, or a sheep pen, or a school, or a stone fence. Once - until 56 years ago,...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Nathan Chofshi

May 12th, 2008 - 4:09 AM

"We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Yitzhak Rabin

May 10th, 2008 - 9:38 PM

"The residents of Lod must be expelled quickly, without classifying them according to age ... implement immediately."-- Order from Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, operations chief for the Israeli attack on the Palestinian city of Lydda/Lod in 1948 (and later Israeli...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Israel Zangwill

May 10th, 2008 - 6:49 AM

"There is ... a difficulty from which the Zionist dares not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it. Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United...
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Nakba Quote Of The Day: Maxime Rodinson

May 9th, 2008 - 6:25 AM

"The Arab population of Palestine was native in all the senses of the word and their roots in Palestine can be traced back at least forty centuries".-- Prof. Maxime Rodinson, Israel and the Arabs, (English edition, Penguin Books, 1982. Summary...
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Israeli Independence Quote Of The Day

May 8th, 2008 - 7:08 AM

In my name, and in the name of Jewish people throughout the world, an indigenous population was almost completely expelled. Village names have been removed from the map, houses blown up, and new forests planted. In Arabic, this is called...
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“Liberal” Israelis: Still Crying And Shooting After All These Years

May 7th, 2008 - 8:28 PM

"Crying and shooting" is the term used in Israeli political discourse to describe those Israelis who agonize over what they are doing to the Palestinians, but carry on doing it anyway. It's a way for Israelis to feel better about...
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Moran Nation

May 5th, 2008 - 10:47 AM

Is it elitist of me to suggest that if you're going to publicly wave a placard demanding that everybody speak English, you should first make sure that you know how to speak it yourself? Or at least spell it... Becky...
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Quote of the Week: Mike Marqusee

May 3rd, 2008 - 6:39 PM

"Anti-Zionist Jews are not and do not claim to be any more authentic or representative than any other Jews, nor is their protest against Israel any more valid than a non-Jew's. But "If I am not for myself", then the...
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