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Gershom Gorenberg The last week has been rather packed, and not just because of two days of Rosh Hashanah. On the first night of the holiday, while my wife and kids and I were at the synagogue praying, our kitchen caught fire. By the time we got home, the fire crew had been and gone.

On this day in ...... 1958 (50 years ago today), French voters approved the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. The change occurred in the wake of May 1958 "[r]ioting in Algiers by the French population of Algeria," which had "led to the fall of the last government of the Fourth Republic." Still in

Gershom Gorenberg Today, according to the Hebrew calendar, is the anniversary of the founding of the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank following the Six-Day War. (Settlement had already begun in the Golan Heights.) In honor of the anniversary, I’ve decided to begin a project that’s been on

Why George Bush Jr. Won’t Be Tried as a War Criminal September 4th, 2008 by Andrew The International Criminal Court’s primary objective is to try those who have been indicted for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The court is based on a treaty signed by 106 countries including such powerhouses as Zambia, Latvia and Djibouti.

why, in our society, in the world of today, is a man like this marginalized...? Ramsey Clark Photo courtesy of the BBC and AFP William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and former United States Attorney General. He worked for the U.S.

So I am still at my friend’s house in Ramallah waiting to travel to Nablus tomorrow morning. I walked down to the market around the corner from his house in Ramallah tahat to get some labneh, hummus, and Arabic bread. What a wake up call it is to walk into a market in Palestine.

Salim Hamdan was found guilty…of being Osama bin Laden’s driver On Wednesday, the much contested military tribunal system established to render judgment on ‘enemy combatant’ detainees held at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba completed its first trial with a conviction in the case

Why is it, that the impression the media leaves me with, is that Hamdan is "just a driver" and a victim of circumstances? Just another tragic pawn and casualty in the illegal and immoral war instigated by the imperialistic, oil-grubbing, human-rights/U.S.

ADDAMEER URGENT APPEAL 30/07/2008 Administrative Detention of Salwa Salah and Sara Siureh Salwa Salah was born on the 10 November 1991. On Thursday June 5, 2008, at around 2 a.m. Salwa Salah (16 and half) was sitting with her family in their home in Bethlehem. The family suddenly heard a loud banging on the door.

Has America Become Fascist? By Sherwood Ross GlobalResearch.ca 8-1-8 If it hasn't gone the way of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, it sure is teetering on the brink. America is a nation in deepening crisis, a nation whose leaders repeatedly plunge their citizens into, and make them pay for, serial wars abroad, while stealing their liberties at home.