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What If the Tsarnaev's Motive Was Revenge for U.S. Foreign Policy?

Dzhokhar TsarvaevOn the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, President Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said, “We will find out who did this; we’ll find out why they did this.”

What motivated the murderous acts allegedly committed by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarvaev is the question on everyone’s mind. We would be surprised if it were not.

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Hagel in Israel

Chuck Hagel, ObamaOn April 20, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel began a weeklong Middle East trip.

Planned stops include Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Republic (UAE).

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In Praise of Emotion

WallIt was a moving experience. Moments that spoke not only to the mind, but also – and foremost – to the heart.

Last Sunday, on the eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day for the fallen in our wars, I was invited to an event organized by the activist group Combatants for Peace and the Forum of Israeli and Palestinian Bereaved Parents.

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Re-turning rights

The Palestinians have neither died away nor forgotten their rights,by Joseph Massad

Since its inception, the Zionist project was clear in its goals and the strategy required to achieve them. In order for Jews to colonise the lands of the Palestinians and establish an exclusivist Jewish state, Zionist strategists insisted, the natives must be driven out of the country. For Zionism, colonisation and expulsion were to be simultaneous processes that could not be decoupled from one another: indeed, they would become the very same process.

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What Is the Threshold for Martial Law?

boston-lockdownby Anthony Gregory

It seems simple enough. Publicly available evidence shows two young men implicated in the horrific massacre in Boston this Monday, the shooting of the officer at MIT, crimes against others, and violent resistance against the police. One brother is dead and the other on the lam. And so the police have locked down Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, and Watertown. There are tanks and heavily armed officers all over the streets. They go door to door, without warrants, searching for the suspect.

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