Can Soft Power Win the War on Islamic State?
Wishful thinking.
October 27, 2015
A Great War Correspondent’s Report on the Palestinian Refugees, From a Half-Century Ago
Little has changed.
In 1961, the great American war correspondent Martha Gellhorn reported on her visits to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, Jordan, and Jerusalem, as well as to Arab communities in Israel. It seems that not much has changed since then. She found little squalor or misery, but a great deal of hatred for Israel and America. While, time and again, she was told stories of horrible massacres and the shelling of villages by Israel, her interviewees were unable to name a single family member, friend, or acquaintance who was killed. About the one exception, in a camp in Gaza, she wrote:
October 27, 2015
Should Israel Try to Topple Assad?
In light of Russian intervention: yes.
A Great War Correspondent’s Report on the Palestinian Refugees, From a Half-Century Ago
Little has changed.
Is “Death of a Salesman” Better in Yiddish?
"The stark ring of a death sentence."
When God Goes Away, Superstition Takes His Place
Why are secular Norwegians chasing ghosts?