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Archives for November 2010

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

Juan Cole

In Quentin Tarantino’s camp noir classic, Pulp Fiction, the Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames characters have an altercation and one chases the other into a pawn shop, the proprietor of which is a Maynard who has a friend Zed. They capture Marsellus (Rhames) and have their way with him as a man in a bondage […]

Egypt

Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap: Cole in the Guardian

Juan Cole

My essay on the implications of the wikileaks revelations about Sunni Arab states urging the US to launch a surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is up at The Guardian. (Scroll down). Excerpt: ” The WikiLeaks revelation that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia repeatedly urged Washington to “cut off the head of the snake” and […]

Iraq

Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter

Juan Cole

A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the US to withdraw from Iraq and b) that Israeli politicians think that even if Iran never used a nuclear weapon, just for it to have one would doom Israel. Since […]

Afghanistan

Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban

Juan Cole

What they tell us: In summer of 2009, it was revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair informed the US Congress that, according to Marcus Baram at HuffPo, “Iran is covertly supplying arms to Afghan insurgents while publicly posing as supportive of the Afghan government.” That includes the provision of small arms, mines, rocket-propelled […]

Uncategorized

Blair, Hitchens Debate Religion

Juan Cole

Here is the transcript of the debate between Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens on the motion, “Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world”. It is being said that after-event polling suggests that Mr. Hitchens demolished Mr. Blair with the audience attending. The form of the proposition was unfortunate, since it […]

Afghanistan
Political Cartoon:  Obama’s Stitches

Political Cartoon: Obama’s Stitches

Juan Cole

President Obama received 12 stitches for a busted lip after being elbowed on the basketball court Friday. In other news, the Pentagon has been dressing up the Afghanistan debacle as best they can. © Juan Cole. May be used with a link back.

al-Qaeda

149 Alleged Terrorists arrested in Saudi Arabia

Juan Cole

Authorities in Saudi Arabia, according to Al-Sharq al-Awsat writing in Arabic, have arrested 149 persons organized in 19 cells on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism. The cells were operating independently of one another. Among their alleged targets were Saudi government buildings and military installations. Aljazeera Arabic is reporting that some intended to hit petroleum […]

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Iran Must Free Josh and Shane Now

Juan Cole

CNN has a report on the situation of two American hikers kidnapped by Iran, who are being held on false charges of crossing the Iranian border (they were on the side of Iraqi Kurdistan). The Iranian judiciary has postponed the trial until February 18, 2011. Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were kidnapped by […]

Afghanistan
Swanson: “‘Freedom Watch’ Threw a War and Nobody Came”

Swanson: “‘Freedom Watch’ Threw a War and Nobody Came”

Juan Cole

David Swanson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Neoconservatives, despite wandering in the wilderness after their Iraq debacle, are trying to keep the dream of serial wars in the Middle East alive. Freedom Watch and the Foundation for Democracy in Iran sponsored a National Press Club event on November 17, in which […]

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