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'Commentary': 'Nakba' Is Arabic for 'Picnic'
http://www.philipweiss.org/ mondoweiss/ 2008/ 09/ commentary-nakba-is-arabic-for…Nakba-denying Commentary Magazine has chosen to expand and magnify its distortion of the Palestinian experience in its latest issue by printing Efraim Karsh's response to a critical letter pointing out that Karsh elided Arab testimony about the events of 1947-48 in his original article, where he claimed that Arabs were "driven" out of Jaffa and other Arab towns and villages by their own leaders.
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Why Palestinian Oral Histories of 'Nakba' Must Be Given Weight by Scholars
http://www.philipweiss.org/ mondoweiss/ 2008/ 09/ why-palestinian-oral-histories…A month back I criticized Benny Morris, the Israeli military historian, for relying almost exclusively on Israeli sources for his Yale University Press history, 1948. I said that he should have looked at oral histories from Arabs who were expelled from Palestine.
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Was Truman Courageous in Recognizing Israel in '48?
http://www.philipweiss.org/ mondoweiss/ 2008/ 08/ was-truman-courageous-in-recog…I was driving yesterday and heard Terry Gross interviewing presidential historian Michael Beschloss a year back about Harry Truman's decision to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Beschloss puts Truman's decision in his book on nine presidential decisions that he regards as courageous.
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Two 'Times' Employees 'Cared Deeply About' Darwish's Work. Neither Was Assigned His Obit
http://www.philipweiss.org/ mondoweiss/ 2008/ 08/ two-times-employees-cared-deep…Timesman Ethan Bronner has written a good response to As'ad AbuKhalil's critique of his obituary of Mahmoud Darwish in the New York Times. He points out that he does speak Arabic OK and that he has spurred the hiring of other Arabic-speakers and the promotion of Arabic education at the Times.
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'Gov't took Jabotinsky out of schoolbooks and gave us Nakba'
http://www.thejidf.org/ 2008/ 08/ govt-took-jabotinsky-out-of-schoolbooks.htmlAug. 20, 2008 JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST "The government took Ze'ev Jabotinsky out of the schoolbooks and inserted the [Palestinian] Nakba instead," Opposition leader and Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday in a special Knesset session during the summer recess.
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Digg’s Top Stories Stolen
http://deliggit.com/ 2008/ 08/ 13/ diggs-top-stories-stolen/offbeatstuff.blogspot.com This blog takes the top stories from Digg and reproduces them IN FULL without the owners permission, sometimes forgetting to note the source and even duplicating COPYRIGHT NOTICES with their copy and paste method and affecting the owners search results.
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What Would Andy Pettitte Do? (Apologize for the Nakba!)
http://www.philipweiss.org/ mondoweiss/ 2008/ 08/ what-would-andy-pettitte-do-ap…Today on ESPN Skip Bayless said the difference between Andy Pettitte and Barry Bonds is Andy Pettitte apologized for using human growth hormone. We got past it. Today Osama bin Laden's driver apologized to the American people. I like that. I had an argument this week with a friend about the right of return.
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The Palestinians of Iraq
http://palestinethinktank.com/ 2008/ 08/ 05/ the-palestinians-of-iraq/The Palestinians residing in Iraq came from villages around Haifa, which used to be called the villages of Alhamamah Albeda (The White Dove). Those were the villages of (Ijzim, Jabaa and Ayn Ghazal). These villages have witnessed many battles between the Palestinian citizens and the Zionist gangs.
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Iqbal Tamimi - Palestinians on the Iraqi borders: How did this story start?
http://palestinethinktank.com/ 2008/ 08/ 01/ iqbal-tamimi-palestinians-on-the-ir…The methods used by the Zionists to drive Palestinians out of their country 1948, including claiming they had a Nuclear bomb like the one dropped on Hiroshima. The story starts almost here….. The Zionist Haganah gangs worked on expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland in 1948, supported
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MIKE WALLACE FRAUD AGAINST IRAN
http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/ wordpress/ ?p=2480Mike Wallace. I saw Mike Wallace's interview with Ahmadinejad on CNN. I wasn't aware at the time that Wallace had edited out and done a voiceover on critical parts of the interview that aired on 60 Minutes. MR. WALLACE: You are very good at filibustering. You still have not answered the... ...
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