Lee on Oct 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Equal to the horror of this, is the futility.
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Lee on Aug 11 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Evidently immune to the historical irony, Israel halted arms shipments to Georgia months ago due to fears of a Russian attack. As an IDF veteran interprets that:
“When we found ourselves in a similar situation, we expected the world to act differently.”
(Haaretz)
And the world did act differently, or at least the United States…and at far greater [...]
Lee on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
(photo: Charles Roffey - Charles & Fred)
Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East or the Mediterranean what his government’s policy relationship was with Syria, he would automatically furrow his [...]
Lee on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as “the embassy of the Zionist Entity.”
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Peg on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Media, Peg's Page, Race
(Cross Posted at What if?)
We all know that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Similarly, an anti-racism conference that features Libya as its chair, with Cuba as its vice-chair, has virtually no chance of achieving any rational dialogue about combatting racism.
In the past, too much of the world [...]
Lee on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Juan Cole suggests that Israeli treatment of the Palestinians represents “a condition analogous to slavery.” It would seem that on this matter Juan Cole has a condition analogous to Hamas. (via CampusWatch via Commentary). Also, if you missed it, check out Juan’s Hormuz conspiracy theory.
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Lee on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Society
The other day Perfunction posted David Duke’s political advice for the Ron Paul campaign. The noxious white nationalist’s recommendations being essentially that while Paul was great, he needs to be just a wee bit more, you know, anti-Semitic.
Anyway, it made enough rounds on the blogs that apparently the news reached Duke himself. He emerged from [...]
Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Stealing from Harry’s Place we find these fairly encouraging results:
Here’s the results of last November’s polling amongst Palestinians:
Support or opposition to a peace settlement with Israel
Support 72%
Oppose 25.5%
Support or opposition to the Palestinian participation in the peace conference that will be held at the end of the month.
Support 71%
Oppose 26.5%
Should Hamas maintain its position [...]
Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
At Harry’s place we see further reason to despise Brussel’s bureaucrats.
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Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
From Meryl Yourish.
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