Category Archives: Middle East

The Journey

An illustrative map (hat tip: Alex Jones):

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Michael Oren’s Problem With American Jews

Lloyd Green reviews Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren (“Michael Oren’s Problem With American Jews“): Ally, Michael Oren’s political autobiography, is an indictment of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy, or more precisely, its stance … Continue reading

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Ethiopian Jews in Israel

So, when it comes to closeted ethnocentrism (and not-so-closeted ethnocentrism), Israel sounds an awful lot like the million Fergusons that comprise the Evil, White, Racist U.S.A.: The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises the … Continue reading

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Jordan Executes Two Prisoners

Jordan wastes no time: Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn Wednesday, following through on a promised strong response to the ISIS killing of pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh, a government spokesman said. Put to death were Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi … Continue reading

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Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh

ISIS’s barbaric murder of the Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, brings a new degree of spectacle and horror to the reality that is Islamic aggression. With the extended world becoming increasingly inured to the phenomena of beheadings, leave it to … Continue reading

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“American Sniper” & Audiences in Iraq

Occasionally, Mediate will put out something worth mentioning. From “How Audiences in Iraq Are Reacting to American Sniper“. From viewers whose land is about to completely taken over by ISIS Islamists teleported from medieval times: American Sniper opened at Baghdad’s … Continue reading

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Israeli Cabinet Moves to Define Israel as Jewish

From the AP: JERUSALEM (AP) — In a move likely to further inflame tensions with Israel’s Arab citizens, the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The decision, … Continue reading

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Former Iraq Ambassador: Obama ‘Warned by Everybody’ About ISIS, but ‘Did Almost Nothing’

From NR: James Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012, pushed back against President Obama’s claim that the intelligence community was caught off guard by the rise of the Islamic State, claiming the White House knew all about … Continue reading

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2003: Tony Judt & The Hornet’s Nest

In 2003, the late Tony Judt (himself an ardent Marxist Zionist in his youth) wrote an article critical of Israel in The New York Review of Books: The problem with Israel, in short, is not—as is sometimes suggested—that it is … Continue reading

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Israel Deporting Illegals to Uganda

Jewish organizations in America have long fought for more third world immigration into the U.S. But, in Israel, it’s a different story. From Israel National News: Israel is secretly transferring illegal immigrants from Africa to Uganda, according to Haaretz newspaper Wednesday. The paper … Continue reading

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