My new posting came not just as momentum was building toward an invasion. It followed on the heels of a major new crisis in our peace with Egypt. Only weeks before I gave up my Sinai command, President Anwar Sadat was shot and killed by an extremist Muslim officer at the annual C...
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Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 Chapter 6 Offensiveness- Pornography: I Am Curious Yellow and Deep Throat Freedom of speech is not free. The right to say, show or publish often carries a heavy price tag. As kids, we recited the following ditty: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but name...
such as the need for women to wear the Islamic headscarf and a disdain for alcohol. Turkish bureaucrats and businesspeople complain that embracing these practices to prove that one is a “good Muslim” has become a precondition for getting government promotions and contracts.
WHICH I HAVE NOW WORKED ON INTENSIVELY FOR TWO YEARS. NOTHING OF USE FROM CULTURAL “THEORY” BUT A POWERFUL ARGUMENT BASED ON THE EFFECTS OF REPEATED FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGES IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES—AND IN HINDU SOCIETIES ENDOGAMOUS CASTES IN COMPETITION WITH EACH OTHER. See my talk i...
nominated for ""The Salesman"". Farhadi made international headlines announcing he would not travel to Hollywood in protest of President Trump's proposed travel ban on seven Muslim countries. Some Oscar voters do not see all five nominated foreign films
4 about how to deal with the growing protests has led to increasingly violent confrontations inside the regime between would-be reformers and hard-liners. The outcome of this internal contest remains uncertain. What is certain, however, is that what happens in Syria is of great...
The Scowcroft Group 900 17th Street, NW * Suite 500 Washington, DC 20006 — www.scowcroft.com From: Kevin Nealer Date: November 14, 2015 Terrorism - Metrojet and Paris Mark Externalization of ISIS Threat It has been a consensus view in the US and Europe that the dangers pose...
/ BARAK / 76 many as possible of the Arab inhabitants to come under the authority of the Palestinians, and as few as possible under our rule.” Amnon’s bottom line was that we could not give up Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, which, although he was a non-observant Jew,...
/ BARAK / 81 with Arafat still mute and unresponsive. That was the only way we could know with certainty whether peace was possible. If it wasn’t, it would also demonstrate powerfully to the Americans that we were not the party who had prevented an agreement. The President came...
In a well-publicized national scandal in 2008, the Tehran police commander responsible for enforcing Iran's strict anti-vice laws, Reza Zarei, was caught nude in a brothel with six women (one of the women claimed he had asked them to pray naked in front of him). While American po...
make no mistake — ISIS is part of the radical Islamic web of terrorism. A web that is loosely knit, yet survives on strictly restricted resources — and demonstrates operational flexibility, survivability and a fanatic adherence to the goal. ¢ We're talking about ALQ, Jabhat al-N...
the Middle East's Islamists, and specifically the Muslim brotherhood, whom the Qataris view as the region's rising power. "The Qatari strategy is that the situation has changed, and we need to fend for ourselves and ensure that the regional anarchy is not going to impact us," say...
close ties with the Egyptian military, which still receives $1.3 billion in American aid each year. American officials hope that whatever government emerges will continue to support American policy, including maintaining ties with Israel and distance from Iran. At the same time,...
The Scowcroft Group 900 17th Street, NW • Suite 500 Washington DC 20006 Phone www.scowcroft.com From: Kevin Neater Date: November 14, 2015 Terrorism - Metrojet and Paris Mark Externalization of ISIS Threat It has been a consensus view in the US and Europe that the dangers posed b...