by Nadia Matar
I dreamed a dream. I dreamed about a fly who understood human speech. In my dream I see the fly coming through a window into the Prime Minister’s residence, where it encounters Ehud Olmert and his guest, President Shimon Peres. This is the conversation between those two Israeli leaders:
Shimon Peres:
Listen, Ehud, Abu Mazen [...]

Bolsheviks and Islam part 2: Sharia Law
Alliance for Workers Liberty5 March, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne continues an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to Islam today?
The [...]

Bolsheviks and Islam Part 3: Islamic communism
Alliance for Workers Liberty17 March, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne continues an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to [...]

The Bolsheviks and Islam
Alliance for Workers Liberty 25 February, 2004
Islamism
Gerry Byrne begins an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they inherited. What, if anything, can it teach us about socialists’ relationship to Islam today?
“Rewriting history” is [...]

The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
As published by the London Review of Books on March 23, 2006
For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to [...]

The Israeli Department of Antiquities demanded that the Islamic Wakf cease digging with heavy equipment and at night. At this point the purposeful destruction of the remnants of the Second Temple is continuing.

Over 100 Arabs and their supporters, including the mayor of Ramallah, Israeli and foreign leftists, and Arab journalists representing foreign news agencies marched to a Jewish vineyard and destroyed it.

Memri recently published yet another valuable article, which is included below. Iran and Syria appear to be moving to the next stage of their takeover of Lebanon, and many signs point to this beginning soon after July 15, 2007, as explained in the Memri article.
The intention of Iran and its ally, Russia, is obvious. The [...]

This week is the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, where Israel miraculously survived the onslaught of an attack by all the armies of its Arab neighbors. The survival of Israel is the source many organized protests in Israel, Europe and the US.