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4 days ago · Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations—or miscalculations—of Hamas.
21 hours ago · The General would never learn if the assassin was a Nazi holdout, a Soviet spy, or an Allies agent sent to finally shut him up. What he did know was that, in the minute between the assassin being shot by an unbelievably quick reaction from sniper John Cockburn and actually dying, he had muttered deliriously in Russian and Ukrainian.
1 day ago · The peace and public order we have here in Singapore, is not a natural or an easy state of affairs. We have to keep working at it together. It requires us to redirect strongly-felt emotions into activities that may not have the immediate gratification of a public demonstration, but have greater positive impact in the long run.
1 day ago · A reporter for the St. Petersburg Times acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images made at the time, which showed nothing but empty desert. [119] Other justifications for foreign involvement included Iraq's history of human rights abuses under Saddam .
4 days ago · During bitter fighting, Crisp had two tanks shot out from under him. Then, near an airfield at Sidi Rezegh, he found himself alone in his Stuart when a column of 70 German vehicles appeared. Crisp ...
5 days ago · It is more impressive that St. Anthony could brave the Egyptian desert for a lifetime of spiritual combat. The enigma of St. Anthony is the end result of Christian theology. God is not a being in the world and can, thus, afford to see the world increase without losing any of his glory.
3 days ago · From the sea to the desert, All our youth are under arms, All the youth are on the guard. On the eagle’s path in the sky, On the wild ass’s trail in the mountains, Through stony heights and caverns, We are tracking down the enemy. We are always in the vanguard, By light of day and in the dark, Always ready for our orders, We, we, the ...
