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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part I a) (Response to Randir)

As those who have read my posts over the years know, I will usually not respond to comments, even when I am being attacked. But I make exceptions, especially if in the process I can make some general points that deserve being made. Today it’s Randir’s comment to my previous post that prompts me to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part I

Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East, and whose brain is not addled by the effects of PC where, among other things, wishful thinking takes over proper thinking, knows that the chances of a ‘democratic epiphany’ in that region are laughably remote. Until 1948, never in the course of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Newt and the ‘Palestinians’…

I shouldn’t be, but in spite of long experience I am still occasionally surprised at the way in which ‘ideology’ denies and distorts facts. Or, to put it more correctly, the way in which people with certain agendas deny and distort facts. Of course, History is not an ‘exact science’, indeed, it’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

A Presidential PC Diktat: Obama 'Purifies' Language and Thought…

This post is a response to a response. In a comment to my latest and (semi)funny post ‘Fun with Fatwas’, found in Tidbits and Snippets, FormerStudentIntern writes: ‘It's interesting reading these passages about Jihads. I don't recall seeing too many passages online or in print.’ Now, of course it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Good News from Israel

There are many reasons, deeply imbedded in the course and events of Jewish history, why Jews are often prone to a sometimes self-destructive idealism. After a thousand years of persecution, messages of 'Brotherhood' always found a strong resonance among Jews, even if they backfired on them. As a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

When I Hate to be Proven Right…Part II

In my previous post I expressed the hope that the Egyptian election, which gave 60% of the vote to Islamist parties (the Muslim Brotherhood and the al-Noor), was rigged. I was hoping for that because in that case we might assume that the result did not represent the wish of the Egyptian people. Of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

When I Hate to be Proven Right…Part I

I’ll admit it – I like to be proven right, as I think most of us do. But that sense of satisfaction is severely diminished when I was forced to predict something bad, in which case I really and truly hope to be proven wrong. When this ‘Arab Spring’ business began, and Western politicians as well as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Reflections on the ‘Arab Spring’…

In contrast to the combination of ignorance, wishful thinking and willful blindness that informs most of Western ‘analyses’ of the ‘Arab Spring’, viewing it as the emergence of a string of new liberal democracies, there are the voices that strike a more cautious and realistic note. My few Blogit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Obama vs. Netanyahu

I hope many of you caught Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. Aside from being a masterful performance, I was impressed with its substance, and it was gratifying to see that the Members of Congress gave it the applause it deserved. I am sorely tempted to provide you with my take on some of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Obama at His Disastrous Best (Worst?) Once Again…

I must confess: I haven’t heard Obama’s speech on the Middle East – hell, I don’t even have time for Blogit, why then should I listen to him? Maybe there was something positive in that speech, but the two things I’ve been told/have read about, and the only ones I shall address myself to briefly, are... Sign in to see full entry.

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