Contributions by:
Lawrence Davidson
Introductory Comments and a General Defense Boycotts are historically common and popular forms of protest. Unlike sanctions, which are enforced by governments and sometimes destroy the lives of millions of ordinary people (as in the case of the 12-years of sanctions against Iraq, and the on-going Western sanctions against Hamas and the Gaza Strip), boycotts…
Read Full Article...Most people are local in their orientations. They spend their days focused on work, school, the kids and their friends. They go to the movies and out to dinner. Under normal circumstances the attention paid to what is happening on the other side of the proverbial hill goes little beyond an occasional tut-tut at the…
Read Full Article...The Messenger and His Message Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is an insider memoir with a political purpose. It tells the story of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from 1973 to the present intertwined with Carter’s own experiences and reminiscences as the president who convened Camp David I, brought about the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty,…
Read Full Article...Background: Open Market “Freedom” vs. Democracy Inrecent times there has been a general shift to the left in Latin American politics. The traditional center-right parties that had controlled politics in most of the South and Central America were not really democratic ones. They were patronage parties deeply rooted in a culture of corruption and often…
Read Full Article...Civilizing Steps The impression of pain, then, may increase to such a degree that, occupying the mind entirely, it will compel the sufferer to use the shortest method of freeing himself from torment….He will accuse himself of crimes of which he is innocent so that the very means employed to distinguish the innocent from the…
Read Full Article...On November 17, 1917 Sir Arthur James Balfour, acting for the wartime British cabinet of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, issued what has historically become known as the Balfour Declaration. Promising a national home for the Jews in Palestine, the declaration established an alliance between the Zionist movement and the British Empire. For the Zionists…
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