Archive for the 'Middle East' Category
Terry Trippany on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iraq, Media Watch, Middle East, Military
Update: The astute readers at NewsBusters want to know how a 39 year old veteran managed to serve in the military under President Reagan. Good question.
Final Update: Another reader noted:
People, I don’t want to nit pick but the article is NOT saying he served under Reagan, every Pres “SINCE” Reagan, meaning not including, meaning all [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Middle East
Chalk another murderous act up for those peace seeking Palestinians. A “gunman”, as the AP describes the murderous prick, walked into the library at the Mercaz Harav seminary and fired on 80 students with an AK-47 rifle for several minutes before he was finally shot dead by an off duty Israeli Army officer. [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Democracy, Europe, Middle East
Later today, a government’s representative is going to make the following important announcements:
Western governments have “the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world.”
The same speaker says that “fostering democracy in the Middle East ‘is the best long-term defence against global terrorism and conflict.’”
He feels that keeping democracy [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 21 2007 | Filed under: Election 2008, Europe, Health and Science, Honor Killings, Middle East
Deep thoughts elude me today, so I’ll just pass on to you all the interesting articles I’ve read throughout the day.
I wasn’t surprised to read that people who have migraines have different brain structures from those who don’t, especially since those differences seem centered in those areas of the brain that perceive pain, touch and [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Iran, Middle East, Religion, Sharia Law
I firmly believe that military force should be the last option in dealing with Iran. But I also believe that, whether we talk with the Iranians, enact embargoes against the Iranians, threaten the Iranians, or whatever else the heck we decide to do vis a vis the Iranians (including an Osirak or Syria approach), we [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, The War on Terror
I respect Condi Rice for the most part, but have thought her naive for believing (or, at least, appearing to believe) that the Palestinians want peace with Israel, as opposed to Israel in pieces. David Brooks, however, thinks that there is a method to her madness, and that Iran’s follies may result in a [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: Middle East, The War on Terror
The AP has an article out that quotes certain “experts” who were interviewed and have stated that we can not rule out the possibility of negotiating with al-Qaeda.
One problem, as pointed out by Jan Egeland, a Norwegian who helped broker secret talks between Israel and the PLO in the 1990s, is that al-Qaeda wants world [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 12 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Middle East
I’m reading Gone With The Wind again, for the first time in about 30 years. I didn’t mean to, but I found a lovely, perfectly clean copy at Goodwill for $1.49 and couldn’t resist buying it (such a bargain). And then, of course, once it was in the house, I kind of opened it to [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 04 2007 | Filed under: Middle East, The War on Terror
I just had to share with you Mark Steyn’s brilliant insight into the economic nature of Islamic conquest:
The jizya is the poll tax paid by non-Muslims to their Muslim betters. One cause of the lack of economic innovation in the Islamic world is that they’ve always placed the main funding burden of society on infidels. [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 28 2007 | Filed under: Middle East
Al Jazeera claims to have in its possession an Israeli government paper detailing the basic requirements Israel sees preconditions for any peace negotiations with the Palestinians. I haven’t thought at all in depth about what these conditions are alleged to be, so I won’t comment on them here. Instead, I wanted to blog [...]
