Stay Away from the Arabs!
This is refreshing, right? About 10 days ago, a fish merchant in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda outdoor market noticed a young man with sidelocks and a skullcap trying to determine which of the stalls employ Arabs. The merchant, Saleh, called the police, who detained the man for questioning on suspicion that he was planning a … Read more
Downplaying the Holocaust?
Peter Goodspeed’s new article in the National Post is an interesting one that begins with the various creative things that Iran could do if the country was able to produce a nuclear warhead. Naturally, Goodspeed includes all the continuously repeated disaster scenarios that would ‘inevitably’ result in the destruction of Israel, including a fantastic comparison of Iranian … Read more
Guest Post: No Partner for Peace…Again?!
Lately, two opinion articles in Haaretz have focused on Mahmoud Abbas‘ role in the so-called “peace process,” both depicting him as a notorious naysayer but with different additives. On the one hand, we have Israel Harel, blatantly espousing his negation of international law as usual (one must only remember the cheeky article he wrote in … Read more
Quartet’s New “Peace Initiative”
It is not surprising reading the news, after the Palestinian Authority’s bid at the United Nations, that the Quartet came out with a “new idea.” It is a nice mixture of the “same old garbage” with a tint of “we need to keep ourselves relevant.” The Quartet is this ad-hoc organization of the United States, … Read more
Is the Media Trying to Make a Story Out of Nothing about the Palestinian’s Bid?
It seems that there are more news articles dedicated to the Palestinian bid at the UN than there actually are Palestinians. Everyone has their input about what happens, including the two authors here. Until 10 days ago it was only academics who knew anything about what they were writing, and described the process accordingly. Now … Read more
NFAM Reading List 9/13/2011
Some suggested reading for 9/13: A “Humanitarian War” on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? - Global Research Kremlin firmly opposes UN sanctions on Syria - Washington Examiner In Syria: 2,600 Dead So Far, UN Official Says - Boise State Public Radio Has the Libyan Insurgency Begun? - Wired Danger Room Libya’s new harvest: the … Read more
Twitter Debates on Palestine
Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch (Abu Aardvark) of the Middle East Channel and Yousef Munayyer of The Palestine Center (Avi Mayer chimes in at the end) had the following debate on Twitter earlier today which I found to be quite interesting abuaardvark: Zombie peace process might just barely have been revived back in 2009 when Obama … Read more
Why is it so Hard for the New York Times to Accept International Law in Regards to Palestine and the Palestinians?
As the date of the Palestinian bid at the United Nations looms nearer various people, myself included (just look at most of my past articles), have decided to give a last ditch effort to revive the two state solution (this is where you will not find me writing about). I was passing through the New … Read more
Quote of the Day: Unbiased Analysis
“The Khomeinist leadership is in a state of panic,” crowed Amir Taheri, a long-time critic of the Islamic Republic, in the Saudi-owned, London-based Asharq al-Awsat. Eight months after the start of the Arab Spring, he added, “the ruling mullahs” fear that they, too, “may be on the path of the tsunami of change.” Taheri, of course, … Read more
The Mavi Marmara (Palmer) Report from the United Nations Critique
Anyone who has been seeing the news the past 20hrs or so sees an interesting headline on the major media outlets. It reads something like this “UN report says Israeli blockade is legal.” So far I have found minor variation from the major media outlets and I would like to commend the New York Times … Read more
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