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walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/16/2009
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Here's a thought experiment: Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War, leading to a massive exodus of Jews from the territory of Israel. Imagine that the victorious Arab states had eventually decided to permit the Palestinians to establish a state of their own on the ...
newyorker.com - 1/9/2009
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newyorker.com —
On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview
with the Times, assured the world that “torture is...
never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.” Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in Syria, was surprised to ...
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Annals of Justice: Outsourcing Torture: The New Yorker
haaretz.com - 1/17/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel is very close to securing the objectives
of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip,...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP. "After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close ...
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Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/23/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, Abe Foxman took the weird step of
complaining that George Mitchell is “fair” and therefore somehow...
unsuited to serve as an envoy overseeing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, Foxman whined to Ben Smith that Mitchell is ...
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Foxman Steps Up His Campaign Against Fairness
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Meanwhile, In The Non-Counterfactual World
Wonk Room —
... , Steven Walt’s counterfactual about Israel-Palestine — in which he imagined if the roles of Israelis and Palestinians had been reversed — has generated a lot of much needed discussion, both about the history of the conflict and about the U.S.’s relationship to it. ...
The Angevin Counterfactual
The American Scene —
... notes, there’s been a lot of interesting debate about Stephen Walt’s counterfactual from a few days ago. See, for example, ...
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