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The Next Israel-Lebanon War

כ"א באלול ה'תש"ע (31 August 2010)

When I wrote recently about the upcoming Israel-Iran War, I predicted that “Israel will provoke a war with Hezballah in 2010 to defeat them and to deplete their arsenal in the context of a conventional war.” Now I see Haaretz is agreeing that Israel might be planning to attack Hezballah preemptively. The article mentions the [...]

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Has Slate Declined?

כ"א באלול ה'תש"ע (31 August 2010)

Like TJIC, I read the firmly middlebrow Slate very regularly (I’ve subscribed to the main Slate RSS feed for about three years). Also like him, I have noticed some changes in Slate’s overall quality over time. Here are some things that I think Slate is doing right: Podcasts. I listen to the Political Gabgest and [...]

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Israel & Lebanon in the United States Empire

י"ח באלול ה'תש"ע (28 August 2010)

The United States arms its client Israel (or Israel is the puppetmaster that controls the United States – it depends whom you ask). The United States also arms a (former) close ally of Israel, Turkey. The United States also arms some of Israel’s neighbors, like Egypt and the Hashemite entity, as a reward for not [...]

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The Annexation Endgame

י"ז באלול ה'תש"ע (27 August 2010)

IHTG asked what I thought about this article. He wrote: My feeling is that the settlers with their sense of community and extremely high birthrates find it easier to imagine surviving in a multi-ethnic society along with Arabs, in a sort of mini-Austro-Hungary, with themselves as the Austrians. For the rest of us, it could [...]

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Israel & Turkey

י"ד באלול ה'תש"ע (24 August 2010)

Whenever I think about Israel’s relationship with Turkey, I think of Jabotinsky‘s book Taryag Millim: An Introduction to Spoken Hebrew (In Latin Characters). Though he was careful to say that he wasn’t using the book to advocate for a Latinized letter system for Hebrew like Mustafa Kemal did with Turkish, the book reflects an interesting [...]

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The Israel-Iran War

א' באלול ה'תש"ע (11 August 2010)

Get ready for Israel’s next war, people, because it might be coming soon. First thing: read what Jeffrey Goldberg has to say in The Atlantic. He points out that the point of no return is likely upon us and that, because President Obama is so reluctant to act, Netanyahu will feel compelled to attack Iran’s [...]

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