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Comment on Omri@Russia Today: Lebanon’s Trial by Omri@Russia Today: Afghan Backlash | Mere Rhetoric

Omri@Russia Today: Afghan Backlash | Mere Rhetoric — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:38:54 +0000

[...] appearance more recent than the one posted yesterday, this time about the Afghan withdrawal. One one side there’s a guy quoting outdated and [...]

Comment on Wikileaks – Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack by PJTN » Muslim Anti-Semitism Is Not Israel’s Fault

PJTN » Muslim Anti-Semitism Is Not Israel’s Fault — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:34:38 +0000

[...] for years that Sunnis wouldn’t mobilize against Iran because of Israel, a myth that was debunked by Wikileaks. They emphasized the idea that the Israeli-Arab conflict prevented Arab democratization, something [...]

Comment on Confirmed: Obama’s Speeches Written For 8th Graders by Leveling the Reading Field: How Dumbed-Down Writing Makes Everyone Lose « Bookzilla

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:02:56 +0000

[...] President Obama’s speeches are written at an 8th grade level? [...]

Comment on Four Theories Why Obama Is Throwing Britain Under The Bus by Gutman: Palestinians “Understandably” Abandoned Bilateral Negotiations « Commentary Magazine

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:31:42 +0000

[...] with opposition-controlled Congresses. That said, the president himself began the administration dispensing anti-Bush payback to stalwart War on Terror allies – including hanging New Europe out to dry after they had [...]

Comment on Wikileaks – Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack by - Warn-USA of the WIBR/WARN Sites

- Warn-USA of the WIBR/WARN Sites — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:10:35 +0000

[...] or call for a U.S. attack on settling the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflicts. This is contrary to what Administration officials, academia, and parts of the mass media who argue these issues are [...]

Comment on Wikileaks – Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack by Muslim Anti-Semitism Is Not Israel’s Fault « Commentary Magazine

Muslim Anti-Semitism Is Not Israel’s Fault « Commentary Magazine — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:39:33 +0000

Comment on US Spy Agencies: Actually, It Turns Out That Iran Is Developing Nukes (UPDATE: Obama On The NIE: “Bush Continues To Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of His Ideology”) by Chanting Iranian Human Shields Circle Nuclear Plant « Commentary Magazine

Chanting Iranian Human Shields Circle Nuclear Plant « Commentary Magazine — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:31:55 +0000

[...] comfortable calling ElBaradei an out-and-out Iranian agent – capped off domestically by the 2007 NIE quasi-putsch that knocked out Bush’s legs, Iran is now close enough to the finish line that they [...]

Comment on Red Cross: Of Course Israel’s White Phosphorus Shells Don’t Violate Int’l Law by The Red Queen’s Race | David Olesker

The Red Queen’s Race | David Olesker — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:00:29 +0000

[...] said there is “no evidence to suggest” that Israel had used white phosphorus as a weapon. (See here.) Notice the shift to alleging that the supposed crime is “inherent” in the use of white [...]

Comment on Los Angeles To-Do – May 10 – Omri On Media Bias Bloggers’ Panel At Skirball Center by Omri On “After September” Middle East Diplomacy and Security Panel – Sunday, October 2 – Luxe Hotel, Los Angeles | Mere Rhetoric

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:30:35 +0000

[...] event is sponsored by Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which has done fantastic bloggers’ panels before. Registration and ticket information is [...]

Comment on Helen Thomas Forced Out For Ruining Journalists’ Respectable “Anti-Israel” Facade. She Shouldn’t Have Been. by Sunday Cute – Cats Sleeping In Boxes | Mere Rhetoric

Sunday Cute – Cats Sleeping In Boxes | Mere Rhetoric — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:56:52 +0000

[...] posts unpacking the terminal epistemological flaws of democracy-to-rogue engagement or the psychosocial dynamics of respectable antisemitism in media and foreign policy circles. And let me tell you how pleased I am about [...]