December 2014

“Brains Were Destroyed, UT Says, But Questions Linger”

“Brains Were Destroyed, UT Says, But Questions Linger” By Leonard Zwelling          This headline above an article by Benjamin Wermund in the City and State section of the Houston Chronicle on December 4, 2014 greeted me with my coffee. I couldn’t make this stuff up.          Mr. Wermund reports that author Alex Hannaford discovered during […]

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Ferguson is Not Gaza: Clarity Not Confusion Through Identifying the Problem

Ferguson is Not Gaza: Clarity Not Confusion Through Identifying the Problem By Leonard Zwelling http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/25591/Default.aspx          As this article shows, there are those who would equate the violence in response to the police shooting of the unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson to violence in the Middle East that may be a harbinger of a new

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When the Subject Changed from Land to Religious Ideology in the Former British Mandate of Palestine

When the Subject Changed from Land to Religious Ideology in the Former British Mandate of Palestine By Leonard Zwelling          For many years, at least since 1948, the conflict in the former British Mandate of Palestine was between two peoples, Jews and Arabs, over land. In 1967, the Jews ratcheted up the stakes by capturing

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