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"Islamic textbooks scapegoat Jews, Christians" - 4/03/2003

From SharkBlog comes the story 'Sowing seeds of hatred': Textbooks widely used in New York's Islamic schools contain passages that are blatantly anti-Semitic, condemning Jews as a people, repeating old canards about the Jews wanting to kill Christ and faking their Holy Scriptures to mock God. As you might have already guessed, there is something of a Saudi connection: one of the pub...

"Mexico is meddling in US military" - 3/30/2003

... article. Apparently, our friends in the Mexican government are taking "a census of persons of Mexican ancestry who belong to the armed forces of the United States and who are stationed in the war zone." Are they doing it because they're nice people?

Intern Val Zavala? - 3/06/2003

Mark A. R. Kleiman links to the American Prospect article 'Hoarse Whisperer: Bush's quiet but not-so-subtle bullying of Mexico', which takes as its source the Economist article 'Time to be counted': A stream of American officials, sounding much more hostile than sorry, have been trekking south to argue the point.

Eating the elephant, one bite at a time - 1/24/2003

... on ID cards given out by the Mexican government to illegal aliens in the U.S. has some moderately good news: The Mexican government, despite concerns by U.S. law-enforcement authorities and immigration officials, is handing out thousands of identity cards to Mexican nationals in this country, including those here illegally... "The most important thing to understand about these Mexican matric...

Q: "How do you eat an elephant?" - 12/19/2002

A: "One bite at a time." Funny, eh? Not if you're the elephant: Arturo Sarukhan, a top official in Mexico's foreign ministry [assistant to Jorge "propagating militant activities" Castaneda -lw], said that after Mexico's failure to win a comprehensive package of immigration reforms from Bush, it is lobbying in Washington for important incremental steps. "How ...

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