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Integrity
Hamas and Hezbollah have emerged as major factors in the Middle East. Their leaders exemplify a new kind of integrity. They live modestly and they do not have Swiss bank accounts. They provide social benefits for the poor and have established efficiently run schools, hospitals and homes for the aged.
The officers and volunteers of the […]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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Protests Against the René Marcic Prize
from Zwischenwelt, no. 4, June 2007, Vienna, p 38.
Fritz Hausjell, professor for journalism in Vienna and the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge) have protested against the naming of the Salzburg Prize for Journalism after René Marcic, the former editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten. Hausjell and öge have proposed that this prize be named after […]
Posted: July 30th, 2007 under Text, Dossier.
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A Taboo
“The State of Israel must be overthrown, there is no room for such a state….The Zionist state is the cause of conflict and violence in the Middle East. I am against the racism and violence of the Zionist state of Israel, but I also oppose anti-Semitism.”
- Vanessa Redgrave, Arab Perspective, 1981, DiscovertheNetworks.Org
“Israel […]
Posted: July 28th, 2007 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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Elitist Luminaries Set Examples
Peter Zadek is indubitably the greatest German theater director, even greater it pains me to say, than my favorite, the great Claus Peymann.
Here’ the compassionate Herr Peymann: “Ordinary murderers kill after they have raped a woman or they kill to acquire money. These terrorists (Bader-Meinhoff) thought that by murdering they had to take action against […]
Posted: July 26th, 2007 under Polemics, Aktuell.
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Comments by Fighters
My late friend Dusko Tomovski, who had translated Faust I and II into Macedonian, told me the following story: At the age of fifteen he went up to the mountains to fight with the Tito partisans. At nightfall, he asked a grizzled comrade where he should sleep. The answer was:
“Find the softest stone.”
In 1992 […]
Posted: July 24th, 2007 under Political, Stories.
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The Sheik and Women
Here’s a Taliban speaker at the beginning of the century on the opposite sex:
“How can you trust anyone who bleeds once a month?!”
And here’s Australian Mufti Sheik Taj Din al-Halali on the subject of the opposite sex:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden
or in […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2007 under Polemics, Text.
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The Core
The Story of Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge is all you need to know about religion. The tree represents carnal knowledge and knowledge per se. Paradise is a state without wisdom - and copulation. These two elements are evil.
The Deity is good and he does all the thinking. When Eve tempts Adam […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2007 under Polemics.
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