Why the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement Cannot Work Now
It has become a sort of knee jerk reaction by Leftists concerned about the Israel-Palestine issue to compare the issue to South Africa and say how “we need a BDS program along the lines of South Africa.” Let me preface the following article that I believe what Israel does within the Occupied Territories and even … Read more
Obama Can’t Stop the Killing in Syria, and Certainly Not Like That
UPDATE: Marc Lynch agrees with me. Tony Badran has a piece in Foreign Policy discussing the various steps that US President Obama can take in order to facilitate the fall of Assad and the end of violence in Syria. As Badran notes, Washington has a poorly defined policy in regards to Syria and the increasing … Read more
Bad Week for Palestinians and Those Who Support their Struggle
I am sorry to those who regularly read the blog and my entries for my lack of entries. As you know I was injured 2 weeks ago and have had little ability to write, let alone research, what to write about. I was shuffling through the news articles before going to bed at 3am (part … Read more
Obama Still Does Not Understand the Middle East Part II
As I mentioned in the first installment of this blog piece, given Obama’s Middle East speech it is more than evident by more than just timing he does not understand the Arab World. His inability to go past generic US slogans of freedom, human rights, and economic opportunity shows his sticking to the status quo … Read more
Rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz’s Jerusalem Post Article
(Twenty minutes after finishing this post, this article was published stating the UN is following a very similar argument) I was reading the news, looking for something to write about and among the 1000s of article regarding Bin Laden this and Bin Laden that I came across this article by Alan Dershowitz. If you are lucky enough to not … Read more
Saleh’s Evolution
It was a little more than a month ago, when the protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh were just beginning, when President Saleh order the Yemeni army to protect all demonstrators and urged all to avoid violence. The order came after the death toll of the uprising reached 15. Needless to so, things have gotten worse, … Read more
Quote of the Day: Intervention in Libya, Con’t
International intervention has been a main topic on this site for the past few days, so I will link to previous arguments rather than sum them all up once again. I will add, though, that as neocons in the US push for the United States to get involved in the revolutions in the Middle East, … Read more
Quote of the Day: Intervention in Libya
For those following the debate on international intervention in Libya here lately, it is clear that I do not support any type of American military engagement in Libya. There are questions of popular will and American capacity; there are reservations of transforming the revolt of the Libyan people into a western movement and fears that … Read more
Notes on Libya
As each day passes, more and more analysts are predicting that the Qaddafi regime is in its last hours. In liberated parts of the country – where government loyalists and the army have abandoned – opposition forces have started setting up an interim government; in Baida opposition forces have seized tanks and missiles and preparing an … Read more
International Intervention on Crazy Qaddafi?
Over the last three days Colonel Qaddafi has given two speeches and his supposedly sane son Seif gave one of his own. The latest Qaddafi tirade was disturbing and humorous. Talking to perhaps fifteen people, Qaddafi crowed on about hallucination pills, talked about himself in third person and more often than not seemed genuinely lost. Here in … Read more
