gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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Jordanian Parliament members burned the Israeli flag on Sunday in protest to Israel's Operation Cast Lead campaign in Gaza: Israelly Cool has a roundup on the situation in Gaza and Israel including this photo from a protest in India: The Nariman house is the Chabad House in Mumbai, in ...
Brawl Halts Session of Iraqi Parliament
nytimes.com 11/21/2008 — A session of Iraq’s Parliament collapsed in chaos as a discussion among lawmakers about a security agreement boiled over into shouting and physical confrontation. >
The Israeli Way of War
michaeltotten.com 1/5/2009 — Two years ago "I interviewed Yaacov Lozowick":http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2006/09/getting-lebanon-wrong.php, then-chief archivist at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and he characterized Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon as stupid and indefensible. I ...
Obama Demand: The Israeli Occupation Must End
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/14/2008 — It is becoming clear that Barack Obama understands that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of virtually all of America's problems in the Middle East.
He also understands that, paradoxically, it is the Middle East problem most ...
The Evil and the Foolish
themoderatevoice.com 12/30/2008 — Though my own posts haven’t been bad, I think the folks over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money have probably the best package of coverage regarding Israel’s latest operation in Gaza. One of the things I think they’ve done effectively is ...
Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
balloon-juice.com 12/31/2008 — Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways ...
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/5/2009 — I'm immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard and a student at Yale Law ...
Re: Gaza
corner.nationalreview.com 1/4/2009 — Andrew, I think U.S. and Israeli interests are perfectly aligned on this one. Remember bin Laden's refrain about "the strong horse and the weak horse" -- the fact that people (particularly those targeted for jihadi recruitment) are always drawn to ...