Nearly a year ago I wrote this post on the topic. I actually began the part 2, but let it lie for a while. Given the dramatic events in Iran and the pseudo-debate in the US about how Obama should react, I find it apt to finish up the topic now.
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An interesting piece on the topic in the Gaurdian, always a good source for news and analysis. Just to remind my readers that there is “nothing new under the sun,” compare this post from 6 years ago! The Ha’aretz interview with Professor Bar-Tal, mentioned in an earlier post, is quoted here as well. Gila Svirsky [...]
I have talked about Israeli’s sense of victimhood quite often, most recently just a few days ago. Akiva Eldar (one of Ha’aretz great journalist) has a piece on some recent research into precisely this topic:
Israeli Jews’ consciousness is characterized by a sense of victimization, a siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization of the Palestinians [...]
In my previous post I asked a question: does Hamas’ war crimes justify Israel’s? Apparently the answer is yes, for most Israelis. This article recently appeared in the New York Times. In it you find a remarkable insight into the Israeli mind:
The Israeli theory of what it tried to do here is summed up in [...]
George Packer from the New Yorker analyzes the situation in South Asia in light of the Mumbai attack.
Almost five years ago I posted an article on this topic. My comment at the time:
…with the completion of the “security fence” Israel will effectively have annexed a good part of the West Bank and Gaza and will maintain de facto control of the rest for years to come. The Palestinian struggle will then shift from a [...]
A extremely well-written and intelligent analysis of the war in Georgia and its aftermath.
The first essential step for the leader of the Western alliance is to tone down the bombast and restore a dialogue with Russia. Our peripatetic secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, should have jetted off to Moscow, not Tbilisi. Careless talk about throwing [...]
The war in Yugoslavia was a turning point in the human rights movement. Appalled by the atrocities they saw, many Western war correspondents advocated for military intervention by the US and the EU. The rallying cry was “how can we stand by and let another Holocaust happen?” Eventually (not soon enough for what would soon be known as the [...]
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Yesterday while reading AMNY I saw an article about Kosovo. As with the so-called “Cedar Revolution” and “Orange Revolution” there was the obligatory picture of a pretty girl sitting on someone’s shoulders and waving a flag. Given the parallels my skeptical nature kicked in. While knowing very little about the issue, I began to wonder [...]
Watching the news about the Bhutto assassination, I am reminded what a poor job our media does of covering the news (see this post). But I am not one to blame the messenger. It is our individual responsibility to learn more about any given topic and use that knowledge to form our own judgements.
Not too [...]
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