When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to condemn an Arab government for its mistreatment of Palestinians? How come groups and individuals on university campuses in the US and Canada that call themselves ‘pro-Palestinian’ remain silent when Jordan revokes the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians? The plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries in general, and Lebanon in particular, is one that is often ignored by the mainstream media in West. How come they turn a blind eye to the fact that Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and many more Arab countries continue to impose severe travel restrictions on Palestinians? ...A news story on the Palestinians that does not include an anti-Israel angle rarely makes it to the front pages of Western newspapers. The demolition of an Arab-owned illegal I have long been extremely keen on the idea that the welfare state should give way to a welfare society – or, as David Cameron would call it, a Big Society. That is because I think Britain’s welfare state has not only debilitated and enslaved individuals through a dependency culture, but has eroded the bonds that keep a healthy society together and functioning: bonds of duty and responsibility, selflessness and altruism, initiative and entrepreneurialism. A true liberal society, in other words. I have often written about grass-roots, bottom-up community initiatives which have been springing up in recent years and which seemed to me to capture some of this lost spirit of English liberalism. I was impressed and often very moved by the way in which they restored some self-reliance and motivation to shattered areas – and I observed also the...Tuesday, 20th July 2010
Melanie Phillips
Cognitive dissonance on Middle East groundhog day
6:30pm
Khaled abu Toameh asks a question:
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A social revolution -- or a superior sound-bite?
8:51pm
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
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