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Mescaline CatechismOver on Lobe Log, Ali Gharib responds to some New York Times article that dutifully pushes war on Iran, and groups all Shias as systemic liars that can’t be trusted. Here is the comment I posted: Hmm! A rather sedate response to what is essentially an image of a glaring, turbaned, hook-nosed darky about to [...]
Browsing Posts in Middle East
Ayatollah Fu Manchu
Tuesday 17 April 2012
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“A real race for a meaningless post”
Tuesday 10 April 2012
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Back in 2005, Patrick Clawson, of the Israel mouthpiece WINEP (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), dismissed the Iranian presidential election as “a real race for a meaningless post” ¹. I wrote at the time that the irony² had escaped all of them that this was how the US elections had been described–e.g. by [...]
Oil, the Left’s Favourite Culprit for War
Tuesday 3 April 2012
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Back when the previous American war on Iraq started, there were cries of “No war for oil!” coming from the Western Left. It was the culprit they were comfortable with. Nowadays, though, AIPAC‘s and the US media‘s push is so shrill that even the Left is no longer pointing accusatory fingers at oil. They’re like [...]
Israel Here, Israel There, Israel Everywhere
Saturday 31 March 2012
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Over on The American Conservative, Philip Giraldi talks of Israel encircling Iran, this time via Georgia and Azerbaijan. I responded: Israel has been in Iraqi Kurdistan for at least a decade. As for Georgia and Azerbaijan, Iran may have made some counter-moves: if I remember, it sought cooperation with them recently. Both Israel and Iran [...]
Saudi Destruction of Islamic Heritage
Thursday 29 March 2012
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Over at The American Conservative, they are getting worked up about Saudi destruction or something of Christian churches. At a glance, the heated discussion appeared to have veered off into comparisons of assorted holy sandals! Whatever! Here’s what I posted: I can’t get past the opening premise of this article! For years (decades?) the Saudis [...]
Iraq, the Battlefield for Iran and Saudi Arabia
Wednesday 28 March 2012
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On the Real News, Sahar Issa, of McClatchy’s Baghdad Bureau, offers some great analysis of the insanity that had engulfed Iraq at the height of the neo-con-era US invasion: I will tell you something. We in Iraq know about proxy wars. We had a very strong proxy war of ourselves here. It was literally Iran [...]
The Dirty Bombs of Fallujah
Wednesday 28 March 2012
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Watching Feurat Alani’s documentary “Fallujah, a Lost Generation?” on RT, about the effects of Depleted Uranium bombarded onto Iraq’s Fallujah, by Americans, I am reminded of similar stories about Basra. Basra’s collection of deformed babies came about after the first US war in Iraq, but Fallujah’s fate seems even more horrific. Fallujah’s seem to have [...]
The Crisis of Peter Beinart
Tuesday 27 March 2012
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The American Conservative is carrying a great article by Scott McConnell on Peter Beinart’s much vaunted new book, The Crisis of Zionism. Among other things, McConnell argues that other actors than American Jews have to step-in in order to solve the problems arising from Israel/Palestine. Here is the comment I posted there, opening with a [...]
Race, in the Issue of Israel/Palestine
Friday 16 March 2012
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Watching Chris Hayes’ very daring (by American standards) Up show, on Israel/Palestine, I have come to realize that, at this point, race is now inescapably at the core of the issue. The Israeli general, Shlomo Gazit, wants a state where Jews form an overwhelming majority. The question will increasingly have to be addressed: Are Jews [...]
Jon Stewart and Iran
Tuesday 13 March 2012
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I watched NIAC’s Titra Parsi on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. It was very kind of him to counter the warmongering, by inviting Titra Parsi of the National Iranian-American Council (or some such expansion of the acronym/abbreviation). However, I distinctly remember Stewart pushing for (uh, shall we say?) a focus, if not war, on Iran. [...]
