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Opinion King’s Last Crusade
Had he lived, Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 83 on January 15. Where would his career have led had he not been murdered in Memphis in April 1968? We can never know. He was just 39 when he died. That was 44 years ago. We know this, however: He had already succeeded in…
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Opinion Marwan Barghouti Speaks, Through Wife
He is the Palestinians’ most famous prisoner and most popular politician. Now Marwan Barghouti is speaking to the American public, through the voice of his wife. Every 15 days, Fadwa Barghouti is allowed to visit her husband in an Israeli prison, where he has served 10 years of five consecutive life sentences for helping to…
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Opinion Attack of the Super PACs
Now that the election year has officially begun, we can take stock of something different about the landscape this time around. The momentous Supreme Court decision two years ago on campaign finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee, has given rise to a new and potentially destructive player in this and future election cycles: the…
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Opinion Ghost of Israel’s Future
We know that Avigdor Lieberman is following events in Russia closely. After the December 4 parliamentary elections there were tainted by ballot stuffing and other violations roundly condemned by Western election monitors, Lieberman offered his own assessment of whether democracy had been harmed: “The outcome of the elections reflects the mood in Russia,” he said….
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Opinion Monitoring the Monitors
The Syrian uprising, now in its ninth month, has recently experienced some of the most ruthless and deadly violence on the part of Bashar al-Assad’s government. The stronghold city of Homs, a center of the revolt, is a war zone. Images from the city show bodies lying on the sidewalks and tanks rolling down the…
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Opinion Oh Thank Heaven for 2011
What a year it was, this two-oh-one-one, Uprisings, protests, regimes on the run. A year when “occupy” became a noun, And millions tried to imitate Kate’s gown. Bin Laden is gone, we’re out of Iraq. Here at the Forward, it’s time to look back. It was a year of Jacobs — Jill, Leslie, And Rick,…
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Opinion Beyond the Protests
There’s the committee. And then there’s the person. The Trajtenberg Committee was formed last August by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and charged with devising policy responses to the social justice protests that were sweeping the nation. The committee presented its report at the end of September, and it’s been the subject of government action…
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Opinion What Voter Fraud?
This isn’t Russia, you know, where allegations of massive voter fraud in the latest parliamentary election were so outrageous that the chairman of the ruling party had to resign. Nor is the United States like any number of African nations, where brutal dictators somehow manage to be swept into office by unrealistic margins again and…
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