Here's Juan Cole on the Gaza Blockade

& the recent Israeli engagement with the humanitarian flotilla from Turkey. 

 

(Juan Cole is a professor of Mideastern Studies.  He is conversant with the several languages of the area and comes out of the Bahai tradition himself--although he has recently distanced himself from the U.S. Bahai group because the governance of the group has come to be dominated by "fundamentalist" Iranian emigres, who seem to regard Bahai's tradition of universalism as being for lip service only.  Otherwise, the Bahais occupy a position vis a vis Islam somewhat like Unitarians do with respect to Christianity.)

 

http://www.juancole.com/
 

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