Posts Tagged ‘nyts’

News to write home about

“Egypt Asks Israel to Keep Turkey Away From Gaza,” the headline in Haaretz announced. When I first read it my wife and I were still in Hawaii. I broke out laughing. It sounded like a parody straight out of The Onion. I labored to put the headline in perspective for people who had no inkling about […]

Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Surveillance State Is Alive and Well

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order […] and the like.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice Bottle up the […]

Video: Israeli mob attacks Eritrean, mistaking him for Bedouin assailant

An Eritrean national shot by an Israeli security guard after he was surrounded by a frenzied mob of Israelis in a Beersheva bus station in southern Israel Sunday night died today of wounds sustained during the assault. A video circulating on social media shows the man, Haftom Zarhum, 29, lying on the floor in a […]

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