Baithak World May 31: Robert Fisk, Headlines, Brodner, RealNews

I have a clear memory of a terrible crime that was committed in southern Lebanon in 1978. Israeli soldiers, landing at night on the beach near Sarafand – the city of Sarepta in antiquity – were looking for "terrorists" and opened fire on a car load of female Palestinian refugees. It took the Israelis a day before they admitted shooting at the car with an anti-tank weapons, by which time I had watched civil defence workers pulling the dead women from the vehicle, their faces slopping off on to the road, an AP correspondent holding his hands to his face in shock, leaning against an ambulance, crying "Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ. I suppose all this is because of what Hitler did to the Jews." Save for his remark, however, all I remember is silence. As if the whole scene was muted, sound smothered by the dead. Robert Fisk: Horrors we have no choice but to forget

Headlines

Mission Accomplished: CIA claims al-Qaeda victories
It is the Army, stupid: Khan retracts nuclear confession
Why Has the British Government Forsaken Gitmo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed?
Apocalypse in the Oceans
How the Pentagon shapes the world
US terror drive stalled in political quagmire
The bubble of all US bubbles
Week in pictures
Uncontacted Amazonian tribe photographed
Britain looked to Israel for military deception
NYC's Deadly Crane Collapse
The Winners of the Twitter Writing Contest Are…
The Racist Card By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
UK union deals a blow to business-as-usual with Israeli academy
Pepe Escobar on UN Iran report, Sarah Posner on McCain's Pastor problem
New York Times Explains Winter Soldier Blackout: Public editor responds to concerns raised by FAIR
Ian McEwan essay: The day of judgment, part one
Review: Selected Poems by Edwin Muir
Review: 1948, The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
Poetry workshop: May's shortlist and Gillian Clarke's responses
John Pilger: Cowardice of silence
Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews
Essay: Jumbo Lit
Was Press a War ‘Enabler’? 2 Offer a Nod From Inside
An Open Letter to Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak

The Hitler Business isn't what it used to be. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a swift kick in his jihad this week when his chief rival, Ali Larijani, was elected speaker of the Iranian parliament by a landslide. Too bad. It's a loss to the McNeocains of the world as well as to the world of illustration. Where will we find another like him? So crazy-ugly-crazy. Ali loves nukes too, however, but doesn't seem to be a mental patient and apparently is okay with talking with his enemies. TIMES STORY

Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


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