Terrorism-related Parries
December 2008
Stop Yesterday
Is the goal of Israel’s assault on Gaza to discourage Hamas from firing rockets, or is it to render Hamas incapable of firing rockets? These are two very different projects, yet we are hearing about both from the government, which worryingly suggests that the government isn’t quite sure.
July 2007
First Time in this House All Day
One reaction (in The Times) to Islamist terrorist doctors: “Nowhere can inequality be so devastatingly stark as in a well-resourced British hospital.” So now we know: it’s understandable that after removing an annoying woman’s varicose veins, why, one sets a car alight and drives it into an airport departure hall.
March 2007
Right to Exist? Gee, Thanks
Recently the term Palestine has come increasingly into currency, used even by venerable Israelis and ardent Israeli supporters such as Hillel Halkin and Charles Krauthammer. In the wake of this change, within the past couple of years the term “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” has been telegraphed increasingly into “Israel/Palestine”. What next?
February 2007
Mecca Pie
The topic is the Palestinian deal for a national unity government. I present two perspectives, one from Dore Gold’s thinktank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and one from the BBC.
Approaching Infinite Justice
Immediately after 9/11, the burgeoning war on terror was named “Operation Infinite Justice”. This terrible name was quickly changed to “Operation Enduring Freedom” but there was such a gulf between the emotions connoted by the two monickers that the second always seemed to me merely a polite cloaking of the first. That is to say, the mission is still infinite justice and it may well still be on.
Terrorism-related Photos
No Latmag on Terrorism
And on the Trail
Sun 19 Feb ’12
More refreshment from Edward Luttwak. I am enamored.
Sun 5 Feb ’12
Hama families speak up about the atrocities of 1982.
Sun 13 Nov ’11
Israel’s new fence along the Egyptian border is going up fast.
Fri 21 Oct ’11
Dead. Qua-daffy. The NYT’s potted (and potty) history. “By the time he was done, Libya had no parliament, no unified military command, no political parties, no unions, no civil society and no nongovernmental organizations.”
Mon 30 May ’11
Walter Russell Mead waxes deep on Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. “…The people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul.”
Tue 26 Apr ’11
Barry Rubin cuts to the chase re prospects for success in the Syrian uprising compared to Egypt, Libya, etc.
Thu 31 Mar ’11
Fri 25 Mar ’11
Jeffrey Goldberg: Dear Reuters, You Must Be Kidding.
Thu 17 Mar ’11
Until the 1980s, Qaddafi improved life for Libyans.
Mon 28 Feb ’11
Hitchens upbraids Obama on Libya.
Tue 22 Feb ’11
Michael Totten reposts his masterly visit to Tripoli in light of Libya’s pending liberation.
Mon 31 Jan ’11
Barry Rubin comes down unequivocally on supporting the Egyptian regime.
Thu 13 Jan ’11
Lebanese government collapses in run-up to Hariri assassination report.
Wed 6 Oct ’10
Mon 28 Jun ’10
Tue 13 Apr ’10
Fri 9 Apr ’10
Sat 13 Mar ’10
Surprising whirlwind of an article on Afghanistan by national treasure Robert D. Kaplan in The Atlantic. Surely the world’s greatest magazine?
Wed 6 Jan ’10
Over at The Atlantic, this is perhaps the piece and subsequent conversation in the comments on applying the Israeli airport security method in the USA. “I’d say, as a generalization, screeners here possess above-average intelligence, whereas your average TSA screener seems to be a working stiff.” Yes, and working stiff seems an overstatement.
Fri 20 Nov ’09
Sixty Hours of Terror — the Mumbai attacks, start to finish, reported by Jason Motlagh
Tue 3 Nov ’09
What’s going on in Pakistan? Fred Kagan provides an overview.
Sun 11 Oct ’09
Boogie Ayalon articulates the bottom-up approach to the Israel/Palestinian conflict.
Tue 25 Aug ’09
Spengler explains the “hopeless, but not serious” quip about the situation of the Palestinians.
Mon 24 Aug ’09
Spengler explains the “hopeless, but not serious” quip about the situation of the Palestinians.
Sun 5 Jul ’09
Peter Berokowitz outlines the likely repercussions of an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Nothing too earth-shattering actually.
Mon 8 Jun ’09
Glick parses Obama’s giving Israel the finger in Cairo.
Sat 21 Mar ’09
Condi Rice, for the hour, on Charlie Rose. What a babe at 54. “The United States is too big a country, too important a country, too gracious a country to have permanent enemies.”