If you haven’t read the comments thread on this post at Harry’s Place, you should. A commenter who uses the name Abu Faris has been reporting, live, from Cairo about the demonstrations there.
Monday night, I went to a panel discussion held by the Henry Jackson Society on the topic: Squaring the circle: Britain and the de-legitimisation of Israel. Marvin the paranoid android has posted an account with photos here. I won’t say … Continue reading
Williams is among a small cadre of scholars from across the world pushing the rather contentious idea that some suicide bombers may in fact be suicidal. At the forefront is the University of Alabama’s Adam Lankford, who recently published an … Continue reading
Who do you reckon said this: ”Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York,” [redacted] was quoted as saying by the magazine, which said the full interview … Continue reading
Claire Berlinski: In billing the flotilla as a humanitarian mission, the IHH — the expedition’s Islamist sponsor — exploited the Turks’ Achilles heel: their generosity. Turks think of themselves as charitable and compassionate, as indeed they are. They genuinely believe, … Continue reading
My “Statement of Concern” came about more by accident than by design. I was searching for someone or some subject on Google.com — can’t remember exactly — when I chanced upon multiple listings of Professor David Lloyd’s anti-Israel petition. That … Continue reading
Raping Jewish girls. This from a woman. Via Snoopy, UPDATE: There are some interesting double-edged swords there, though. The woman asks at one point, if it’s OK to assault Arab women, why not Israelis? There’s an “if” for you.
I’m really disappointed by this. Colin Percival is a fine computer scientist. In a blog post titled In Defence of Truth he wrote the following: Surely, I thought, policy decisions must be guided by facts. Not so. Instead, I was … Continue reading
The NYT today: As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed by a small army of contractors, to fill the void. By October 2011, … Continue reading
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