meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 1/13/2009
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Stephen Walt, of The Israel Lobby fame, launches into the blogosphere with a bang: 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 ...
zombietime.com - 1/12/2009
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zombietime.com —
Gaza War Protest and Anti-Israel Rally San Francisco,
January 10, 2009 On Saturday, January 10, 2009, a
large rally and march took place in San Francisco to protest Israel's invasion of Gaza. The event was one of a series of similar events held in ...
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Gaza War Protest
haaretz.com - 1/12/2009
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haaretz.com —
The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab
political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections,
drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court. ...
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Israel bans Arab parties from running in ...
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The Walt Counterfactual, Revisited
Ross Douthat —
Megan speaks up in its defense - arguing, inter alia, that the rump, terrorist-run Jewish Gaza in Stephen Walt's hypothetical would still have a potent lobby in the United States for the same reason that there's long been sympathy among Irish-Americans for the interests of the stateless, terror-producing members of the IRA. She also suggests that the influence of the Israel lobby in the United States is best explained by ethnic affinities - not only the ethnic loyalties of Jewish-Americans, but the quasi-ethnic affinities of "evangelical Christians who think of ...
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. ...
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