Jan 12 2008
Adi wrote: I don’t have anything against you sending positive things about “Arab,Moslem,Palestine”. I definitely ask you not to send me any letter or article with diatribes on Israel,Israelis,Zionists,Israeli Army,Israeli Police,Security checking etc etc. +++ There are some here in the South who still refer to our American civil war as the War of Northern …
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Dec 11 2007
You have confirmed an unfortunate suspicion. Your postscript reflects the same reaction, albeit belated, that the rabbi expressed in his letter. I read Reese in a completely different light — he is simply suggesting that it is not in America’s best interests to support Israel and the oil-rich (or geographically strategic) despots in the region. …
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Nov 07 2007
Here we go again. Is there no limit to the willful ignorance that manifests itself on these pages? If the writers who routinely berate Charley Reese for his studied sympathies ever stop scouring the Internet for imaginary jihads, we’ll all be better off. Do us a big favor and stick to researching dubious medical remedies; …
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Oct 25 2007
Norwegian friend Barre has scanned the 1948 edition of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s handbook. The section on Islam, starting here: http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/380/388/ipc/ipc-hb-1948/pages-html/021.html …is probably as good a summary as you’ll find. There are overtones of Western superiority in the writing, but it’s a quick read and kinda depressing to think about the state of affairs in …
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Oct 08 2007
http://joshualandis.com/blog/?p=418 In addition to furthering our conversation/speculation about a coming war with Iran, this article by Alistair Crooke is interesting in that it mentions yet another idea about the recent IDF “attack” on Syria (one you won’t likely hear from American or Israeli news sources). If you’ll read the comments afterwards, you’ll notice one by …
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Sep 19 2007
A good motto to live by, at least it was for me at ACS. We had physical fitness tests twice a year which included a 400- or 800-meter run at the AUB track. The guys would start about 1 or 2 minutes ahead of the girls. I was part of that elite group of slackers …
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Sep 11 2007
I was flipping channels a few minutes ago. Faux News had a “Breaking News” banner below their bobble-head anchor of the hour, trumpeting that Petraeus’ Iraq report was calling for a 30,000 troop reduction by next summer. I switched to C-Span and started watching the general’s questioning in the Senate. Jack Reed, a Democrat from …
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