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[Arabic] Thou Shall Not Kill…Whom?
يعتقد أغلب المسيحيين واليهود أن الكتاب المقدس ينهاهم عن قتل الناس، أما الصهاينة فهم يدركون أن وصية “لا تقتل” لا تشمل كل الناس، وإنما هي أمر إلهي للمؤمنين بألا يقتلوا بعضهم فقط. إن هذا التفسير ...
Politics
US and Middle East politics, usually
Love Thy Neighbor : The Evolution of In-Group Morality
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.– Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670 Abstract The world’s major religions espouse a moral code that includes injunctions against murder, theft, ...
Passover: Read Thoughtfully
Long before The Holocaust, Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) urged readers to consider the Passover story’s backstory – the enslavement of Egyptians that preceded the enslavement of Jews. He used the word ‘corner’ in the ...
Chastity, Fidelity and Conquest: Biblical Rules for Women and War
Original In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War (pp. 77-90). Oxford University Press, 2012. For Abeer Qassim al-Janabi because the consequences of a life need ...
Israel’s Racism: The Nation-State Law
A Music Video on Israel’s Racism : its Nation-State Law. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s George Washington, could not have known in 1948 that in 2018 Benjamin Netanyahu would steer a 180-degree turn away from Ben-Gurion’s promise ...
Thou Shalt Not Kill…Whom?
This video addresses the apparent contradiction between commandments to love our neighbors and commandments to kill our neighbors in the Bible. Lead Image Courtesy: The mass grave found at Lützen. NICKLISCH ET AL./PLOS ONE
A Perspective on the Future of Mankind
Interview of John Hartung by Dr. Deas of “Health Center” (Television broadcast, Nov. 13, 2006)
Bring Them Here: A One State Solution for Israel and Palestine
There is a way for the United States to end its occupation of Iraq … and put the people of Iraq on a path that will lead to peace … for all of us. The ...
The Thousand Year Future
A seven minute reply to the question “What is your vision of the 1000 year future of humanity?” taped at the Foundation For the Future, Bellevue, WA, August, 2003 Leading Art: Caritas.org
How Media Fear-Mongers Misrepresent COVID-19
Accentuating the negative and eliminating the positive leads to irrational and ineffective responses. Today, like yesterday and tomorrow, news outlets will announce the number of new COVID-19 cases. “Cases,” in this case, will be the ...