Buck Wheat says: August 26, 2014 at 10:31 pm Anyone ever wonder why the second most modern air force in the entire middle east has not flew a single mission against ISIS, the Saudi’s are scared to death their pilots will turn around and bomb them. Only the US Navy is flying strike missions against[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’
February 28th, 2015 - 10:16 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
92% of Saudis believe that ‘Islamic State conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law’ – Poll
February 26th, 2015 - 2:40 pm § in Politics
Netanyahu refuses to meet with Democrats
TPM reports, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday turned down an invitation to meet privately with Senate Democrats next week during his visit to Washington, saying the session ‘could compound the misperception of partisanship’ surrounding his trip. … “[...]
Movie Review: The Attack
A 2012 film about the experience of living in close quarters with one’s enemy. If there were any justice, this film would have gotten the buzz that American Sniper is getting. But we know there’s no justice, don’t we? [Insert cynical emoji here] The focus of the story is Amin, an a[...]
January 31st, 2015 - 1:48 am § in Israel/Palestine
Why Palestine Can Not Survive Without Israel
Over at the Global Post, Basil El-Baz, CEO of Carbon Holdings, an Egyptian oil and gas company has said the hard truth about the hard truth is that the economies of the Middle East. The obvious exception to his depressing remarks is Israel. For a Palestinsian stste to prosper, it would need [...]
A Rational Response to the War With Islam
Dissent Magazine has a wonderful effort by its former editor, Michael Walzer, to define a rational basis for liberals to responds to Islamic extremism. There is too much in the essay to quote piecemeal. The best I can do on TA is offer the summary and a link. “As I’ve already acknowledge[...]
January 22nd, 2015 - 11:16 pm § in Politics
Saudi King Abdullah Dies, Is Replaced By King Salman
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, 90, has died. He was a U.S. ally and reformer; journalist Fareed Zakaria called him “probably the most progressive and liberal minded king of Saudi Arabia since King Faisal.” Crown Prince Salman has been appointed king. Prior to ascending the throne, h[...]
January 16th, 2015 - 9:41 am § in Uncategorized
The New Antisemitism
Mirel Goldberg, FACEBOOK We must make the true diagnosis: there’s an anti-Semitism people call historical, going back many centuries, but above all there’s this new anti-Semitism born in our neighbourhoods against the backdrop of the Internet, satellite dishes, abject poverty and hatred of the S[...]
Bibi’s Political Trip to Mourn Charlie Hebdo
Bibi is an awful diplomat. According to Haaretz, Bibi Netanyahu was asked not to attend Paris’s rally to honor the fallen cartoonists and other victims of last week’s terror attack on Charlie Hebdo. President Hollande made the request to keep the affair a European affair and avoid bot[...]
FACEBOOK: Is Torture Justified?
This thread began with a post from The Ave on Giuliani’s bizarre attack on Obama. The comment thread expanded to a very thoughtful discussion of torture and of the US commitment to Israel. Mirel Goldenberg Stephen Schwartz. How you obtain information from a detained fanatic terrorist? How [...]