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Adam, Get Their Guns

Posted on01. Jul, 2011 by .

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail:
Although most liberals would be inclined to support calls for tighter gun control, the source of those calls should give them pause for thought. It’s more than a little ironic that the most ardent advocates of gun control for Americans such as the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League are the very same people who demand that American taxpayers continue to lavish Israelis with as much weaponry as they desire “to defend themselves,”

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Pro-Israelis Turning US into Islamophobic Police State

Posted on11. Jun, 2011 by .

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Islam Phobia in the US

By Maidhc Ó Cathail:
In an interview last year with a Jewish radio talk show in New York, Senator Schumer said he believed that HaShem (an Orthodox Jewish term for “God”) gave him the name “Schumer” — which means “guardian” — so that he could fulfill his “very important” role in the U.S. Senate as a “guardian of Israel.” Presumably, Schumer’s God-given role also includes turning the country he is actually paid to represent — the United States — into an Islamophobic police state.

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Arab Dissidents’ Strange Bedfellows

Posted on03. May, 2011 by .

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail If it’s true that, as Shakespeare famously put it, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” then pro-democracy Arab dissidents must be very miserable indeed. CyberDissidents.org is a project created in 2008 by the Jerusalem-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies “to research and focus attention on the online activities of democracy advocates [...]

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Mid-East Democracy: Israel’s Diamond in the Rough

Posted on17. Apr, 2011 by .

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail:
With Americans increasingly frustrated with their own country’s “democratic gap,” could Uncle NED be about to bring home its regime change formula in order to co-opt the revolutionary spirit there too?

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Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun

Posted on06. Mar, 2011 by .

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail:
When pressed by the questioner, Glassman explained: “Now, we have to work with those governments. And let me also just say, there’s a difference on an operational level between public—what we do in public diplomacy and what is often done in official diplomacy. We are communicating and engaging at the level of the public, not at the level of officials. So you know, it certainly is possible that some of these governments will not be all that happy that—at what we’re doing, but that’s what we do in public diplomacy.”

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