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- Lee Smith: The Strong Horse--Power, Politics And The Clash Of Arab Civilizations
- Everyone knows except when they don't
- Syria asserts itself
| Lee Smith: The Strong Horse--Power, Politics And The Clash Of Arab Civilizations Posted: 14 Apr 2010 11:14 AM PDT I've been reading The Strong Horse: Power, Politics And The Clash Of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith.Lee Smith is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard who has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East--a fact reflected in his accounts in his book of meeting people from Omar Sharif to Edward Said.A key point of the book is to address and dispense a number of myths with which we tend to approach the Middle East:1. While we tend to believe--and the media reinforces--the idea that Western colonialism in the area is responsible for the Islamist terrorism, the truth is that the violence... |
| Everyone knows except when they don't Posted: 14 Apr 2010 03:39 AM PDT When discussing the Middle East, "Everyone knows" what it will take to make peace. Melanie Philips (h/t JoshuaPundit) mocks with this facile assumption. It is blindingly obvious what, to the Obama administration, 'everyone knows' . Everyone knows that everything the Palestinians demand will be given to them; everyone knows that Israel alone will be expected to make yet more 'painful concessions' which will jeopardise its security and identity; everyone knows that the Palestinian aggressors will be expected to make no such painful concessions, such as agreeing to allow the State of Israel to exist in peace; everyone knows that aggression... |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2010 03:39 AM PDT via memeorandum According to the Wall Street Journal: Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday publicly charged President Bashar Assad's government with transferring Scud missiles to Hezbollah's forces inside Lebanon. Syria and Hezbollah both denied the charges. But the allegations already are affecting U.S. foreign policy: Republicans pressed on Capitol Hill to block the appointment of a new American ambassador to Damascus, according to congressional officials. The White House said it was pressing ahead. The Scuds are believed to have a range of more than 435 miles--placing Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Israel's nuclear installations all within range of Hezbollah's military forces.... |
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