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Spectator – A Hand in Global Harmony

The Middle Eastern fusion music on \”Hamsa\” is so insidiously infectious and rhythmic that you will not only be humming along but tapping your feet, as well.

The Self-Denying Prophecy

This address was given Sept. 17, 2002, at morning prayers at Harvard University\’s Memorial Church in Cambridge, Mass.

Hate Israel, Not Jews

It was on full display last year at the global anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, but the \”demonization\” of Israel has reached a fever pitch during the past month with the surging death toll in the Middle East, say Jewish observers.

Even as Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked this week, anti-Israel critics worldwide increasingly are employing Nazi and Holocaust imagery and analogies to describe the Jewish state\’s behavior toward the Palestinians.

The Global Minute

Suddenly, we find that an alternate universe shadows our world. Its inhabitants see our culture as their poison, our politics as their oppression, our freedom as their threat — The question is how we could have been so blind. Only now is most of America learning about fundamentalist Islam. Just one year ago, when then-candidate George W. Bush didn\’t know the name of President George W. Bush\’s best friend, the president of Pakistan, the public\’s response was, \”So what?\” So, this: Our blissful ignorance turned out to be deadly.

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