All posts tagged "barry rubin"

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  Who’s to Blame? In Media, Palestinians Avoid Responsibility

  By Barry Rubin. The presentation of the Palestinian Authority’s arguments is pitiful. Take, for example, the December 25, 2013 New York Times op-ed by Ali...

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  Why Most of the Mass Media Can’t Report Honestly on Israel—or Other Middle East Issues

     by Barry Rubin  I was actually astonished at how this column was even more valid than it was when it was...

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  American Journalists Decry Israel’s Ability to Defend Itself as Blocking Peace

      A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip was intercepted by the Iron Dome system. Photo Credit: Edi Israel/Flash The...

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  Israel Has No Other Alternative But the Alternative it Has is a Good One

      By Barry Rubin. The Palestinian leadership, abetted by many Western governments, has now torn up every agreement it made with Israel....

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  The Truth – Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  By Barry Rubin. So much has the debate been shifted “that what thirty years ago was a common-sense given is now considered...

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  Barack Obama is NOT a Communist – Muslim – Marxist or Socialist – Leftist of a New Kind

  By Barry Rubin This article is worth reading by Everyone regardless of your political ideology. If nothing else it should provoke intelligent...

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  A Movement that Pretends to Save Israel by Destroying It.

  By Barry Rubin. I can only laugh at the idea of dilettante Peter Beinart and J Street as leader of the anti-Israel...

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  Being an Israeli and Jew in 2012

    By Barry Rubin. It is the year 2012, which seems to be going by very fast and is already one-fourth finished....

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  Western Elites Don’t Understand the World and Why Their Foreign Policies Fail

  This piece applies to  many of the intellectual “elites” in our own country that persist on miscalculating  events in the region and...

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  The “Arab Spring” and Its Impact on Israel

  By Barry Rubin.  The “Arab Spring” is the name given to the tumultuous political events of 2011. In three countries—Egypt, Libya, and...

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  Fact-Checking Newt Gingrich and the Fact-Checkers on the Middle East

  By Barry Rubin. ABC News “fact-checked” Newt Gingrich’s Middle East statements and some readers asked me to fact-check ABC, so here is...

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  Europe and the Palestinians: What’s the Difference Between Ordinary insanity and Middle East Policy Insanity?

  By Barry Rubin.  What is the definition of insanity? Repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. What is the definition of...

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  The Simple Truth – They Want It ALL

  Photo by: REUTERS/Darren Whiteside By Barry Rubin. PA wants an independent state on all the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem...

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  Big Split in Revolutionary Islamist Movement

  By Barry Rubin Big Split in Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocks Emerge. A development of huge importance is happening in...

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  Why the 1948 Was a Palestinian Arab and Arab Disaster – A Brief Guide

  By Barry Rubin. In 1947 the UN voted to partition the British mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state....

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  Muslim Brotherhood Statements Foster Confusion – IPT News and More

  This analysis by IPT and Barry Rubin Reports on  the Syrian  and Egyptian situation It’s no wonder world leaders don’t know what...

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  Egyptian “Moderate Democratic” Leader Negotiating Coalition Government With Islamists

  By Barry Rubin As I’ve been warning, Muhammed al-Baradei, seen as the leading “moderate, pro-democratic” leader in Egypt is negotiating with the...

• Current Affairs Blog

  An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I’m Worried That Others Aren’t Worried

  By Barry Rubin1) How do you judge the Egyptian protests? It is tempting to see this as a revolution that will bring...

• Guest Contributors

  Lebanon Burns; America Snores – Barry Rubin Reports

  By Barry Rubin: While the media is going wild over the ridiculous “Palestine Papers” deception, Hizballah is taking over Lebanon. Fareed Zakaria,...

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  Barry Rubin – How The “Palestine Papers” Story Is A Fabrication That Teaches Us The Truth

  By Barry Rubin The “Palestine Papers” hoax is (or, more accurately, should be) turning into the most teachable moment about the Israel-Palestinian conflict...