Jan 01 2009
Posted 1/1/2009 3:59:06 PM in response to “Hard Truths About the Conflict” by Robert J. Lieber, a professor of government and international affairs at Georgetown University, is most recently the author of “The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102773.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Such precision! The splattered brains and entrails of only 1 in 5 …
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Dec 28 2008
Here’s a good overview of what’s going on in Gaza: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/27/israelandthepalestinians-terrorism My only beef with the article is that it doesn’t discuss the inside-Israel, wag-the-dog political dimensions of this latest round of US-sanctioned death and misery for Palestinians. Is this just pre-election posturing to show Israelis that the current regime is as macho/muscular as Faux …
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Dec 28 2008
A dear Palestinian friend (ooh, he has Palestinian friends?!) responded with this: —–Original Message—– Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 10:19 AM Subject: RE: Does anyone remember Guernica? The Palestinian conflict under Bush is like two bookends: It started out with his buddy Sharon bombing the hell out of Palestinians, and is ending in the same manner. …
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Dec 27 2008
If anyone is wondering how much damage a lame-duck administration can manage on its way to historical infamy (or at best, oblivion), here’s what our Secretary of State had to say in response to the IAF attacks on Gaza (reminiscent, to this poor student of history, of the Stuka dive-bomber attacks on civilian populations in Spain …
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Oct 28 2008
From Ray Close: Eddy and the Mideast Joseph C. Goulden OP-ED: Middle East veterans of a certain era – the World War II era into the 1950s – speak with respectful awe of William A. Eddy. Soldier, scholar, statesman, spy, Arabist – of him a colleague said, “Bill Eddy was probably the nearest thing that …
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Sep 03 2008
Maureen Dowd’s column today calls her a “Trophy Vice.” If anyone harbors the fantasy that Sarah Palin is a self-made political success, they need to read a piece in the NYT titled “Palin’s Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual.” Perhaps I’m guilty of seeing a Rovian/Gingrichian conspiracy behind every rising Republican star, but it …
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Aug 24 2008
For me, this is probably the work that got the Israeli PR thinkers to seeing the possibilities for a beautiful friendship between Zionism and fundamentalism: Hal Lindsey’s 1970 “The Late, Great Planet Earth.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth I remember hearing about this while we were still in high school, and wondering what in the hell kind of foolishness …
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