A broken clock, so it seems, can be right twice a day. Even Muammar al-Qaddafi understands that the borders of Africa need to be redrawn: …a few weeks ago, he had a pretty good one: to partition Nigeria, “the giant of Africa,” as he called it, in half. Religious violence along the border between the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Iraq'
Results of Colonization
May 10th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Culture, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in the so-called “New Historian” movement in […]
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Decade-Roundup from Israel
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — Stefanie Gardner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the success of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Caroline Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston identifies Israel’s “ten” worst errors of […]
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American Paradoxes
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Iraq, Liberal Pundits, Politics
When you take a step back and look at the big picture, it seems that the United States is frequently a land of paradoxes. Here are two of them. “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the […]
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Stratfor Updates
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Europe, Globalization, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Law, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
For policy wonks and international-relations enthusiasts, Stratfor Global Intelligence is a political dream-come-true. I usually agree with their analyses, but they are still insightful when I do not. (Stratfor is a group of hard-core realists who sometimes discount the role that irrational ideology plays in the international arena.) Here are the group’s reports from the […]
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Rule of International Law
September 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Globalization, Iraq, Law, Politics, The Middle East, War
The White House is proposing global measures (update here) to prevent another economic catastrophe like the one the world is experiencing: President Barack Obama said tougher financial regulations are needed worldwide to protect consumers, provide economic stability and prevent future crises. With the leaders from the Group of 20 nations set to meet next week […]
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Organizational Behavior
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Politics, The Middle East, War
RISHON LEZION, Israel — In modern U.S. governments, there has always been tension between the Department of State and the Department of Defense. In political terms, one side wants to use words while the other wants to use bullets. In business terms, imagine the heads of marketing and sales each trying to curry favor with […]
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Peter Pan, Meet Harry Potter
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Iraq, Journalism, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sports, War, War on Terror
The New York Times reports that the children who grew up reading the “Harry Potter” books are now graduating college and entering the workforce: Indie rock bands have sprung up inspired by their obsession, with names like Harry and the Potters, the Half Bloods, and Voldie and the Wiz Kidz, playing songs inspired by Potter lore. […]
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