rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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Having praised the new Foreign Policy site , let me welcome them to the blogosphere by taking exception to this hypothetical from new-minted FP blogger Stephen Walt, which has been mentioned favorably by Yglesias and Klein as an example of the sort of daring thought that mainstream op-ed pages ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/7/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Israel has agreed "on the principles" of a
ceasefire proposal, raising hopes of an end to its
conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza. "The challenge now is to get the details to match the principles," Israeli spokesman Mark Regev said. The ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel accepts truce 'principles'
online.wsj.com - 1/6/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Maybe this column would get a better reception
if it were titled, "No Endgame for Israel." Because
the quantity of commentary claiming that Israel cannot possibly achieve any kind of successful outcome in Gaza is already approaching presurge levels of ...
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Opinion: An Endgame for Israel
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Walt’s moral Disneyland and other stupid academic tricks
Yourish.com —
... Ross Douthat describes Walt’s (and Mearsheimer’s) crowning achievement like this (while allowing they might have a good idea at the center of their article) ...
What is the Israel lobby?
Megan McArdle —
... was unjust. Imagine that they obtained backing
from sympathizers around the world and that they began to smuggle
weapons into the territory. Then imagine that they started firing at
Palestinian towns and villages and refused to stop despite continued
reprisals and civilian casualties.
Here's the question: would the United States be denouncing those
Jews in Gaza as "terrorists" and encouraging the Palestinian state to
use overwhelming force against them?Ross replies: The odd thing is that by Walt's own account, the answer would ...
The Angevin Counterfactual
The American Scene —
As Andrew Sullivan notes, there’s been a lot of interesting debate about Stephen Walt’s counterfactual from a few days ago. See, for example, here and here and here here. Apropos of all that, and apropos of this Roger Cohen column which technically begins with a counterfactual, I want to offer up a counterfactual of my own – the only one, so far, that could plausibly be the title for a Matt Damon vehicle. Here’s the scenario.
Imagine, if you will, that the Third Crusade was a smashing success. ...
Weekend Opinionator: The Battle Over the Battle in Gaza
Opinionator —
... two-state solution. It is often said that Israel lacks a “partner for peace,” but so do the Palestinians. So if the Obama administration is serious about settling this conflict, it will have to exert real pressure on both sides. The curious things here is that Walt, like Goldberg, points to Abbas and his Fatah cohort as potential good-faith negotiating partners. After all, the two writers don’t, um, seem to like each other much — see here, and here, and here to find Ross Douthat serving as Goldberg’s second in the duel, and here for further piling on from ...
Adult Bush Administration Could Teach Clinton Holdovers to 'Put Away Childish Things'
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Certainly, tempers were high, but was a hotly contested election really an excuse? Let's engage in a little counter-factual (It's no "Jewish Gaza," but stick with me). Try to imagine if you will, a scenario in which John McCain had lost a very close election to Barack Obama, coming just shy of the the electoral college total because of a handful of votes in one state. Can you see a scenario in which Mr. "Country First" would not concede after the first prescribed recount? ...
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