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Why Do U.S. Officials Boycott Bethlehem's Mayor?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mayor of Bethlehem, Palestinian Leadership, Israeli Politics, Christian Mayor of Bethlehem, Victor Batarseh, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Boycott of Israel, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Why does the US boycott one of its own citizens who happens to be the Christian mayor of Bethlehem? This has been the case regarding Victor Batarse.

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Movie Review: Carlos -- Glamorizing Terrorism

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carlos the Jackal, John Dillinger, Jesse James, Baader Meinhof Complex, Carlos Movie Review, Olivier Assayas, Symbionese Liberation Army, Opec, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Patty Hearst, Munich, Jean-Francois Richet, Mesrine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Billy the Kid, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Secretariat, Ted Bundy, Weathermen, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

There's been a lot of excitement about Olivier Assayas' Carlos, and it's not hard to see why. But here's my objection: In presenting a terrorist as an action hero, it glorifies terrorism as a legitimate path of political action.

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Movie Review: Carlos

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Ramirez, Beirut, Palestine, Talal Jurdi, Damascus, Canal Plus, Wadih Haddad, Carlos the Jackal, Opec, Pflp, Ahmad Kaabour, Soviet Union, Anis Nakkash, London, Paris, Sudan, Khartoum, Baghdad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Israel, Entertainment News
Hussain Abdul-Hussain

The only problem is that this great production leaves viewers in love with Carlos, a shallow demagogue, a Marxist-turned-Islamist and a gun for hire who worked for the world's most notorious secret police forces.

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Time to Exhume Marx

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leila Khaled, Islam, Politics, Pakistan, Palestine, Islamic Terrorsm, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Al Qaeda, Muslims, Baader-Meinhof-Complex, Marxism, Israel, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Terrorism, Jihad, Red Army Faction, Politics News
Sunil Adam

Watching the film, I felt strangely nostalgic about what was then referred to as the "Age of Terrorism" -- the period between the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the late 1980s.

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