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Catholics & Jews on Family Guy
I’m a fervent fan of Family Guy (watch all episodes), to my shock many in Lebanon are still not aware of such humour. This comes a bit late for an introduction with Season 8.
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism
Continuing tensions in the Middle East impacts on the relations between Jews and Catholics [...]
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Tags: Catholics, Family Goy, Family Guy, Jews
A teacher experiments the effects of segregation and racism on third graders.
& part 4
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Tags: experiment, Racism, segragation
When Lebanese and the Arabs talk about ‘powerful & influential Jews‘ in the U.S.; knowingly or unknowigly, they’re refering to AIPAC – the American Israeli Public Affairs Commitee. While not all Jews are pro-AIPAC, an emerging decency in viewing the Middle East and the U.S. role in it is shaping up, rather unexpectedly, in the [...]
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Tags: AIPAC, American jews, Brit Tzedek V’Shalom, Hadar Susskind, Israel, J Street, Jewish Lobby, Lobby, Washington
Hommage to Ted Kennedy
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Tags: Boston, Catholics, Democrat, in the USA, Kennedy
After reading the explanation feel free to Google News the keywords “Smart Power” today.
IN TRADITIONAL international conflicts, the side with the stronger military force tended to win. In today’s information age, it is often the party with the stronger story that wins.
Thus in addition to their shooting and killing, Israel and Hezbollah are struggling to [...]
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Tags: Joseph S. Nye Jr., smart power
Semantics, a field of inquiry all of it’s own.
“Smart” power means a combination of “hard” power — to coerce by military or other means — and “soft” power — the power to convince and persuade through trade, diplomacy, aid and the spread of values.
The phrase is relatively recent addition to the diplomatic phrasebook, even if [...]
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Tags: smart power
More secrets emerged today about the Bush administration. Former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the concealment of a secret CIA counterterrororism program for eight years, the New York Times reported, though the scope of the program is unknown. CIA Director Leon Panetta told the Senate and House intelligence committees that he ended the program when [...]
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Tags: American Middle East Policy, Deah Squad, Dick Cheney, Elie Hobeika, Rafik el Hariri
