Palestinian politician Jibrail Rajoub, secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, said on January 20, 2021, that now that "their jackass" Trump is gone, Netanyahu can no longer exploit the Jewish Holocaust to "rule the world."
found first in the ancient text, the
Book of Rites. Keeping a large population in order required rituals of obedience codified within the family. The ideal of a cosmic totality made compliance into the highest moral virtue by painting a world of no conflict: Thus, people did not only love their own parents, did not only nurture their own children…In this way, selfish schemes did not arise. Robbers, thieves, rebels and traitors had no place and thus outer doors were not closed. This is called the Grand Unity (大同
da tong). [3]
Who would not want to live in a world without robbers and thieves? Which state would not treasure a society without any rebels or traitors? For commoners as well as rulers this Utopian vision of universal peace remained a powerful inspiration. In fact, when large scale revolts arose throughout Chinese history, this ideal came to the fore again and again, as was the case with White Lotus Rebellion of 1774 and the Taiping Rebellion of 1850. The stat
Remembering Lokman And Honoring His Struggle
February 8, 2021 | By Alberto M. Fernandez
In the wake of his murder last week, some apologists for the terrorist group Hizbullah have sought to downplay Lokman Slim as some sort of nobody. He was actually a bigger man than most of the big names that make headlines from Lebanon because he combined three extremely powerful, rare – and for Hizbullah – dangerous personal attributes: He was a man who could not be bought, he was a man without fear, and he was a man with something to say.
I first met Lokman 20 years ago when, as a mid-level US diplomat based in Amman, I visited Beirut book publishing houses. My purview at the US Embassy in Jordan included the State Department s Arabic Book Program, which had once been based in Beirut, before the Lebanese Civil War. Lokman and his sister Rasha, a dynamic figure in her own right, ran a wonderful Arabic publishing house, Dar al-Jadeed.[1] The beautifully designed books selected by Lokman an
Martin Smith, a journalist for the U.S.-based PBS television network, tweeted on February 2, 2021, that he had "just returned from three days in Idlib, Syria," where he had interviewed Abu Muhammad Al Joulani, the leader of Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (formerly Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Al-Nusrah - JN), who "spoke candidly about 9/11, AQ, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, ISIS, America and more."