European Pressphoto Agency
Religious leaders
met on Wednesday in Jerusalem in a united protest against a gay pride
festival planned there in August. From left: Sheik Abed es- Salem
Menasra, deputy mufti of Jerusalem; the Rev. Michel Sabbagh, the Latin
patriarch; the Rev. Aris Shirvanian, the Armenian patriarch; Rabbi
Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi; and Rabbi Yona Metzger, the
Ashkenazi chief [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Sodom & Gomorrah
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 31, 2005 | Comments Off
DeLay hastens the day?
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 28, 2005 | Comments Off
A couple of weeks ago I noticed a piece in Forward, the New York Jewish weekly, about far right obstruction of proposed US funding of the now Abbas-led Palestinian Authority.
Defying the wishes of the Bush administration, Congress approved a
foreign-aid package this week forbidding any direct assistance to the
Palestinian Authority and, in a rare snub, denying [...]
Right, To, Life
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working in Israel for the last two weeks, for really long hours, so I’ve had to store up a number of blogs to come, including some reflections on what is now the "old" Yad Vashem, replaced by a spanking new museum (its Israel’s Holocaust museum); some thoughts about oppression, the oppressed, and fascism [...]
Tweedledee & Tweedledumb 2
Posted in BushRovers on March 8, 2005 | Comments Off
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One of the problems with demonizing W and his band of BushRovers
is that those they themselves demonize start to look angelic.
Bolton, for example, has a personal mission to get rid of Mohamed
ElBaradei, the Director General of the IAEA, the atomic energy agency
within the UN. [...]
Tweedledee & Tweedledumb 1
Posted in BushRovers on March 7, 2005 | Comments Off
Standing to the (our) right of Condi, as he does in fact, is J.R. Bolton, W’s pick for new UN ambassador. He follows in a line of appropriate choices for this post by the BushRovers, including the peripatetic John Negroponte, now designee for intelligence czar.
Recently returned from a brief stint as ambassador to Iraq, [...]
Read my lips
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2005 | Comments Off
I have to admit I’ve been trying to see behind the screen that is the Administration’s Social Security so-called reform. I’ve come to expect such a high level of political killer instinct from the Bush Rovers that the apparent flop of the social security initiative, after its announcement from the bullpit of the State of [...]
