Comments on: Middle Eastern Studies

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:42:12 +0000

W.H. Auden was a great poet. More telling, he was a man who was able to deepen and grow in response to real-world events. Stephen Walt is an intellectual mediocrity whose name will be lost forever the second he passes this mortal coil, never to be remembered.

You were right the first time.

Thin gruel … given the weighty crisis of the moment.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:48:12 +0000

“Their [WSJ] news coverage leans left, but not nearly as heavily as, say, the AP.”

Kate, in my view they are nearly or even as bad. Their “news” coverage of Israel has been heavily slanted against Israel. One of their chief Middle East correspondents is the abominable Dion Nissenbaum. Nissenbaum once wrote a disgusting fawning article about his shmoozing with the terrorist Samir Kuntar who murdered a 4-year old Jewish girl by smashing her head with a rock.

By: AMartel

AMartel — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:08:32 +0000

The thing about Said’s theory is that people are still practicing orientalism and colonialism, quite vigorously, and it’s very deeply embedded in the modern political, media and academic systems, and many of the patronized objects of this orientalism and colonialism go along with it enthusiastically. Entire nations and “nations” of people. They project/deflect their sins onto everyone else, of course.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:13:20 +0000

Similar can be said for urumqi who do they think they are fooling

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:12:52 +0000

In re Walt quoting Auden:
“So much that passes for intellectualism today is simply built around remembering something you learned as a freshman in college, out of context.”
Posted at 9:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:09:57 +0000

How do you say crocodile tears in russian dubrovka where they gassed the theatre to kill the chechens

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:04:27 +0000

@ Barry > “Victor D. Hanson with a few, er, questions for the Talented Mr. “Biden”…”

One of VDH’s best – his post covers the gamut of the Left’s open admissions of “This is who we really are.”
I hope his prediction of devolution by way of disgust comes true, but suspect that most of the despicables have enough funding & support to disappear briefly until they can be rebranded.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/16/our-post-hamas-wreckage/

Note to new readers: at least half of ZeroHedge’s posts are just cut-and-paste copies with a link to the source. If the author purports to be “Tyler Durden,” then the content is original to ZH.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:05:37 +0000

Why they’re almost as funny as…”Biden”!!!
‘ China & Russia Criticize Israel As Putin Arrives In Beijing To Deepen Ties With “Dear Friend” Xi ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-russia-criticize-israel-putin-arrives-beijing-deepen-ties-dear-friend-xi
Key punchlines:
‘…Over the weekend China’s foreign ministry blasted Israel’s actions as collective punishment against Palestinians.
‘ “Israel’s actions have gone beyond self-defense and it should heed the call of the international community and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to stop its collective punishment of the people in Gaza,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Saudi Arabia counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in a Sunday call.
‘ In a separate call he told Turkey’s FM: “The exercise of the right of self-defense should abide by international humanitarian law and should not be at the expense of innocent civilian casualties.”
‘ As for Putin, he’s expressed “his sincere condolences to the families and friends of the deceased Israelis,” while also warning against the potential for further “catastrophe” for civilians in the Gaza Strip. “What matters now is to stop the bloodshed”….’

By: om

om — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:00:05 +0000

Sounds like zerohedge Tyler needs his nappies changed.

Someone at The Telegraph likes a book critical of George Orwell, from a karen’s perspective, not exactly top of the fold significant news.

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:26:13 +0000

It is totally clear that leftists do not care one iota about who or how people get exterminated / killed.
What they care about is WHO does the killing.
If it is leftists that do the killing, then the murders / killings are rarely mentioned and quickly swept under the carpet.
Recall how Chomsky spent years jumping thru his ass trying to show how Pol Pot was really a nice guy. And how often is the Cambodian genocide mentioned?
Not one complaint from lefties when East Germans, trying to escape into West Berlin were shot in the back and left to die upon the barbed wire.
Rarely is it mentioned how Stalin’s policies led to the deaths of about 50 MILLION souls. Instead, we had here in the USA an extensive spy network, spying on behalf of Stalin.
Mao’s polices led to the deaths of about 70 Million; yep, not one peep from the geniuses that populate the institutions of “higher” learning.
Castro and his best murderous pal, Che, can murder thousands – and that is just fine for leftists, and yes, no trial needed – the victims deserved those bullets..

Yet if the killers are not of the left, well, there is no condemnation nor punishment severe enough that can be meted out to the killers.

Mass murder is mass murder; but not for leftists. For leftists, there is “good” mass murder, and “bad” mass murder; you have to break some eggs to make that omelette.

Does anybody really believe that if Israel had been a loyal ally of the USSR, beginning in 1948, that leftists in the USA or anywhere, would be raising any objections at all to anything that Israel did to defend itself??

One thing this recent conflict has brought to the fore is it has firmly established which individuals and institutions have a Nazi like, murderous mindsets. They have no compunction supporting and cheering for those terrorists that revel in murdering babies and children.
If given the opportunity, they themselves would personally carry out killings if it suits their ideology. And the victims can easily be you or me; our mere existence is anathema to these execrable almost-human vipers..

These individuals that are not yet citizens should be deported, and those that are citizens should be strongly encouraged to permanently leave (make them an offer they can’t refuse) the USA and force them to renounce their citizenship.

Woodrow Wilson’s administration conducted the Palmer Raids in 1919 and 1920, in which trouble makers (e.g., leftists, communists, socialists, anarchists) were deported and sent back to their homeland (mostly Russia and Eastern Europe). So there is precedent to remove trouble makers and send them back to the shit holes they came from.
We can start with members of “The Squad.”

By the way, Gaza has over a 20 mile stretch of Mediterranean sea shore on their western border. The Gazans could have created a world class resort along that shoreline that would have brought in massive tourism (and $$$$$) that would have benefited all Gazans.
But no siree !!! Better to spend money building tunnels, buying guns and spend money training terrorists.