Category: The Middle East

Part 3 of 3: First the good news…

 And finally the bad news.  Marjorie Wright sent this very depressing piece by Philip Giraldi (also former CIA) last night.  For those of you who don’t get moist with Armageddon-anticipation, reading Giraldi’s prediction (that Israel will try to force us into a war with Iran by August) will make your heart sink lower than a …

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Part 2 of 3: First the good news…

 Ray’s friend Paul Stahnke (a retired Foreign Service Officer) then forwarded this May 13 response (to Breger’s essay) by M. J. Rosenberg, adding this comment: “As you m[a]y know, Rosenberg was once an official with AIPAC before he saw the light.” Ray’s further comments by way of introducing Rosenberg’s response:  “Rosenberg pulls no punches.  More …

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Part 1 of 3: First the good news…

 …bad news to follow.  Here’s a short introduction Ray Close (retired CIA) added yesterday to a recent essay by a credentialed Republican: This short essay contains no particularly original ideas or deep insights, but in the simplicity and clarity of its logic and language, (and the credentials of its author), it is exceptionally helpful.  It …

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The Look

 The latest generation of a problem that will not go away:  http://bit.ly/c8NQF9

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Remarkable evidence that Ezekiel Bulver is dying

… In 1941, Ezekiel Bulver recounted the story of how, at the age of five, his destiny was determined when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third – “Oh, you say that because you are a man.” …

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Tourism as terrorism

 I came across this interesting (if dismaying can be interesting) article today:  http://www.shipoffools.com/features/2009/a_visit_from_the_settlers.html  It contains a link to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI):  http://www.eappi.org/en/about/overview.html  Apparently Baptists in Sweden and the UK are a more enlightened bunch than our local crop of rapture-ready nimrods…

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Haiti: the Lebanese and the bat-crap crazies

 Curious about the origins of Pat Robertson’s outrageous comments about Haiti’s latest agony, my research turned up this interesting nugget in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti):  “In 1912 Syrians residing in Haiti participated in a plot in which the presidential palace was destroyed.”  Syrians in Haiti?  My spider-sense for all things Levantine was tingling, so I digressed from …

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