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The Roundtable Podcast 59

January 19, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 12.01.2014

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Ariel Sharon | York University standing by choice to excuse student from group work with women over religious beliefs | Stephen Harper’s ’24 Seven’ Show Has North Korean Vibes | Featured Article: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person | How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre | Music: Thee Silver Mt. Zion, “Take Away These Early Grave Blues” | Ont. Nazi’s Hitler-inspired house at centre of family feud | The KKK in Ontario: Found documents tell of Klan activity 90 years ago | Satanic Temple unveils 7-foot goat-headed Baphomet statue for Oklahoma Capitol | China’s new ‘secret ingredient’: cockroaches | App lets business users send messages that self-destruct

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Obituary, Wayne's Picks, World

Ariel Sharon’s Life of Vigorous Inertia

January 10, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

Ariel Sharon Retrospective

A SETTLEMENT, John Kerry said this week, is better than settlements. Yet for years now, a practical sublation of this withdrawal versus occupation dialectic has been in place, involving the concurrence of ongoing peace talks and settler expansion into the West Bank. As I write this, news arrives both of the progress of the negotiations and the announcement of another 1,400 Jewish settler houses in Palestinian territory. Whatever the terms on paper, on the ground it is not one or the other: the peace settlement “process” now serves rather than contradicts the settlements.

History, Wayne's Picks

A Two-State Solution Without Statesmen

December 4, 2012 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

Palestine and Israel

FORMER US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter, in a New York Times editorial “Two-State Solution on the Line,” invokes his view a month previous at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and reflects that

The rate of settlement growth in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is staggering. There are now more than 500,000 Israeli settlers living beyond the Green Line, in violation of international law. Their numbers have doubled since the Oslo peace accords of 1993. Thousands more settlement homes are planned or under construction.