meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
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Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving that one side is righter than the other. Since no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you measure whichever side you happen to ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/1/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton
bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,
killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ...
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Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...
jewcy.com - 12/31/2008
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jewcy.com —
By Michael Weiss > Commentators in the American
and European press too often succumb to a solipsistic
way of thinking of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as if only one side had any autonomy or agency. The debate between supporters and critics of Israel ...
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Hamas as a Political Failure
ynetnews.com - 12/31/2008
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ynetnews.com —
Gaza: Hamas gunmen hide in hospitals Shin Bet
chief briefs cabinet on day five of Gaza offensive,
says terror operatives hide in hospitals, mosques. IDF: Hamas increases use of densely populated areas for launching pads Roni Sofer Shin Bet Chief ...
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Gaza: Hamas gunmen hide in hospitals - Israel News, ...
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Stable Equilibrium
TigerHawk —
Hey Megan . That was me back in the blogging stone age of 2002: One of John Nash's simple but great insights into 'games with N players' is that any persistent situation you observe is an equilibrium (he was then able to derive the math describing price and quantity, for which he ultimately won a Nobel Prize). "Duh", you may say. Yet few people apply that insight to current events, essentially arguing that an equilibrium can change without, if you will, a supply or demand shift. I heard Bill Clinton make this argument a few months ago in his standard post-presidential ...
The problem with Megan McArdle
Israel Matzav —
The problem with Megan McArdle The Atlantic's Megan McArdle - who never blogs about the Israel-'Palestine' conflict - blogs about the Israel-'Palestine' conflict (Hat Tip: ...
Israel-Palestine: Tell me how this ends
QandO —
Megan McArdle dispenses some wisdom today about the seemingly never-ending Israel-Palestine conflict. After all the perceived wrongs of actions and reactions going back before living memory, nobody’s going to convince enough people on either side to just give it up, to end this conflict. When the justice of acts isn’t quickly settled to everyone’s satisfaction (or grudging acceptance), and parties that feel wronged begin acts of revenge, that creates even more complex questions of desert, proportionality and proper targeting. Then ...
IDIOTIC LIBERAL MORAL RELATVISM ON DIPLAY: MCARDLE CAN'T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE IDF AND HAMAS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging — Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving that one side is righter than the other. Since no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you measure whichever side you happen to favor. ...
Megan On Israel-Palestine
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
She writes of the Middle East: I don't ever blog about it because one is not allowed to have an
opinion on the matter--no matter what I say, I'll be excusing terrorism
or, irrelevantly, the holocaust, or shilling for western imperialism. Or both, as my email in-tray now demonstrates. Sigh. ...
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