This is not a tradition, so don't expect any funny jokes next Tuesday. Quote Peter Feaver, on my new favorite FP blog (or second fave, after Madam Secretary, especially the post about Hillary and knee-high boots): Walt may be guilty of a common academic fallacy of inference: if I did not read about it in […]
… the LA Times profiles a teenage girl in Tyre, Lebanon, named Hiba Qassir, who is studying at a high school backed by Hezbollah. She comments on her various ambitions, including becoming a film director, and calls martyrdom “the shortest way to heaven”. The summary bit below the headline (I am not sure what the […]
… the former speaker of the Knesset reflects on the meaning of the conflict of Gaza for him and his children.
at least according to the New York Times’ travel section.
who knows? Maybe Ohio and Michigan will start getting remittances from workers in the Gulf as well. … of course that is a joke. Indyk's piece raises some important points about the many levels on which the issues driving Middle East politics need to be addressed.
“Hamas has not started the war to liberate either Jerusalem or the Palestinian lands. This round of the conflict, as others before it, is bigger than Hamas and the goal it so passionately pursues, that of eliminating Israel.” “The battle is part of the intra-regional broader conflict linked with what appears to be a perpetual, […]
Hamas: “Death to Israel! Death to America!”
Michael Young: Tiptoeing around death in South Lebanon Elie Fawaz: Who and why now? Tony Badran: Assad,Jalili, PFLP-GC, and the Rockets from Lebanon NOW Lebanon: Hamas rejects UNSCR 1860, says it does not suit Palestinians Manuela Paraipan: Is this Leadership? Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas: Abbas no longer heads PA NOW Lebanon: Eddé says holding Arab […]
Samuel Huntington, political scientist and author of the influential and controversial book/Foreign Affairs article Clash of Civilizations, died on Christmas Eve 2008. Many thoughtful obituaries in major news outlets recognize his accomplishments and contributions, including the Economist, the Associated Press, the UK's Independent and the UAE's National.
Casualties since the ground offensive are up to 765 Palestinians and 14 Israelis, so the UN has drafted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, after intense lobbying by Arab states. The Los Angeles Times has two articles, each carefully including one Jewish-sounding name and one Muslim-sounding name in the bylines, on the media coverage […]
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