Middle East studies in the News

Oh my ...

by Dan Darling
Regnum Crucis
July 11, 2005

http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com/2005_07_10_regnumcrucis_archive.html#112109754433106762

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2105

I see Juan is diving head-long into conspiracydom yet again ...

Ignoring these charming quotes:

This sort of action is a big part of what is driving the terrorists (and of course Sharon himself is a sort of state-backed terrorist anyway). The newspapers and television news departments should be telling us when we are about to be in the cross-fire between the aggressive, expansionist, proto-fascist Likud Coalition and the paranoid, murderous, violent al-Qaeda and its offshoots.

Eisenhower called up DeGaulle and told him to get the hell out of Algeria, on a short timetable, or else. I wish Bush had Eisenhower's spine when it came to dealing with Ariel Sharon.

And the fact that one of these days Cole is going to have to recognize that the Israeli far right actually hates Sharon, we then get this little spasm against Martin Kramer:

PS the wonderful folks over at Daily Kos, to whom I am most grateful for defending me, should please do up an oppo research diary on Martin Kramer. Who is he? Where did he come from? When he was head of the Dayan Center in Tel Aviv, to whom did he report in the Israeli intelligence community? Who funded his work on Hizbullah? Was he fired from heading the Dayan Center? How does he suddenly show back up in the US after a 20-year absence with a book that blames unpreparedness for 9/11 on US professors of Middle East Studies instead of on the Israeli Mossad and the US CIA/ FBI? What was his role in getting up the Iraq War and in advising the US on the wrong-headed policies that have gotten so many Americans killed? Who pays his salary, now, exactly? What are his links with AIPAC, and with the shadowy world of far-right Zionist think tanks and dummy organizations? I.e., don't let Kramer tie you up with his salvoes on minutiae.

So Martin Kramer is an (at least implied) Mossad agent because he has dared criticize Cole. Okay. Ignoring the fact that he's clearly been reading way too much of the Arab press, I would advise Juan not to worry. You won't hear the black helicopters coming until they're already gone ...

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