January 2011
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Rashid Khalidi on the Holy Land Leaks
Rashid Khalidi, one of the globe’s leading scholars on the modern Middle East, and arguably among the most knowledgeable people in the world on the Israel\Palestine conflict spoke yesterday with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! about the leaked PA documents that recently have come to light in the Guardian and Al-Jazeera. It is a short interview and certainly worth your time.
From his interview...
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Holy Land Leaks - Secret Docs of PA Revealed!
There goes the neighborhood.
The Guardian is reporting today that they have in their possession some 1600 internal PA documents, NOT FROM WIKI LEAKS, that reveal loads of not so nice things about the so called Israel-Palestine “peace process.”
The paper reports that the juicier documents discuss:
• How Israeli leaders privately asked for some Arab citizens to be transferred to a new...
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The Iranian "Daily Show"
Jon Stewart, aka the only newsman who matters on TV, has just interviewed the producers of the Persian language equivalent of the Daily Show, “Parazit.”
You can read a bit about them over on the outstanding website, Tehran Bureau.
Or you can just watch their interview right here on Qizilbash. The guys really are thrilled to be on Stewart’s show. I can’t blame them.
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Five Future Tunisias
Foreign Policy magazine has an interesting snapshot of an article looking at five Arab regimes that they feel may be destined for revolution.
Definitely worth a read for those of you who follow these things.