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from wadi to shining wadi
…Not only is the land for peace theory dangerous; it has little logic to recommend it, perhaps diplomatically, but not militarily. Giving away land for peace means exchanging strategic positions for a mere piece of paper. And it is legitimate … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Benny Morris Historian, Benny Morris Israel, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Hosni Mubarak, Israel Shamir, Land for Peace Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Middle East Peace Process, Yitzhak Rabin assassination, Yom Kippur War
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heroes and villains
Wake up call. Nothing to do next weekend? …. Turn on the BBQ and try to reheat the old narrative. Recycle the fiery rhetoric of Nasser that the Jews are weak and pathetic, a quick massacre, divine violence with a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beach Boys Smile Sessions, Benny Morris Historian, Camp David Israel Peace Treaty, Cindy Adams, Cindy Adams New York Post, Hosni Mubarak, Israel War of Independence, Jerusalem final status, John Phillips photography, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Nasser Six Day War, Sheikh Mohammed Badie
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game, set & match
Tremendous tennis player the Tsar was. The Russian bureaucracy was so heavy and saturated with a tradition of suppliers, basically parasites and leeches that Nicholas II once remarked it took the labor of ten men to change his tennis socks. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Frederich August von Kaulbach, Hosni Mubarak, Jan Adam Janszoon Kruseman, King Louis XIV tennis, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathan Sorrell, Patrick McEnroe, Sigmund Freud Tennis, Taylor Townshend, Theodor Saretsky, Tsar Nicholas II tennis
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i’ll scratch yur’ back, you scratch thine’
The peace dividend. Stability. Develop the real estate and construction industry to put the hordes of uneducated to work dragging material from point a to b. A rebuilding of the pyramids twenty-first century style underlied by the belief that a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ashraf Al Arabi, Bashar Al Assad, Herbert Marcuse, Hisham Qandil, Hosni Mubarak, I Am A Refugee Campaign Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Danny Ayalon, Neta Cohen-Salman, Prof. Zaki Shalom, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sabaton Metal Band, Salam Fayyad
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stooges: a captivating public
What? He captivated the Arab world? It was previously thought that walking on water and loaves of bread and nets full of fish were associated with Christian culture. But heck, with Mohammed Morsi, there is no telling where charisma can … Continue reading →
dreams of unity: vivid and inescapable
Somehow it never works. Arab co-operation, let alone unity, remains fitful and unreliable. The leaders of the Arab world seldom trust each other- and not surprisingly, for each country’s leadership shifts from figure to figure, ideology to ideology, incessantly down … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bourguiba Tunisia, David Held LSE, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Giulio Andreotti, Hosni Mubarak, King Hussein Jordan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marshal McLuhan, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Nasser Hero of the Soviet Union, Nasser Order of Lenin, Nasser Six Day War, Nasser Soviet Golden Star, Nikita Khrushchev Egypt, Saadi Gaddafi SNC-Lavalin, Saif Gaddafi LSE, Sir Howard Davies, Suez Crisis 1956
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a maverick pharaoh
Where’s a maverick pharaoh when you need one? A monotheist and worshiper of the sun god Aten, Akhenaten created a religious revolution. Was he an idealist, a reformer, a visionary, or a megalomaniac? …If we fast forward, the so called … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amenhotep II, Amenhotep III, Field marshal Hussein Tantawi, Hosni Mubarak, Jean-Francois Champollion, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, MK Israel Hasson, Mohammed Morsi, Pablo Picasso, Paul Newman Exodus, pharaoh akhenaten, rudolph valentino, Sami Annan Chief of Staff Egypt, sun god Aten, Theda Bara, Thutmose III
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damascus road diversion
We know that Bashar Assad has a professorial verbal style, has a tendency to become defensive and stubborn, and is dull, tedious and violent. And we know that regime change is in the air, if not exactly planned, then not … Continue reading →
Revolution in the air: tea party on the nile
Rioting and roaring mobs have part of humankind’s lot since time immemorial. Hate, blood-thirst, looting and pillaging have historically required minimal incitement to break a state of uneasy peace. For centuries mobs have risen and destroyed, from the Roman Empire, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, David Keyes, Elizabeth Renzetti, Hosni Mubarak, Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Steyn, Matthew Carver, Mohammed ElBaradei, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Yonathan Kellerman
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read them the riot act
The question is always when does civil disobedience transform itself into meaningful political change. When do mass demonstrations and the counterpart of the riot become a genuine revolution…. The senate house in flames; mobs roaring and rioting in the Forum, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, David Keyes, Democracy Now, Edward Gibbon, Egyptian riots, Gordon riots, Hosni Mubarak, Khaled Said, Neda Iran, Noam Chomsky, Victor Davis Hanson
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