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January 2013

Al-Jazeera’s “Alternative Viewpoint” in Qatar’s Paradise by Amin Farouk

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3524/al-jazeera-qatar Al-Jazeera, which bought Current TV from Al Gore, is not a communications medium in the Western sense. It is a psychological warfare medium, a fundamentalist terrorist communications base operating under Qatari cover. It sets its sights on changing regimes. Al-Jazeera TV, located in and financed by Qatar, which just bought Current TV from former […]

CLIFFORD MAY: BEYOND “TOXIC NATIONALISM”

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3165 Robert D. Kaplan has long been among America’s most insightful analysts of global trends. I’d rather argue with him than agree with most others. Right now, I’m going to do a bit of both. In “Toxic Nationalism,” an essay published in The Wall Street Journal last week, Kaplan observes that “Western elites” regard their […]

P.DAVID HORNIK: GOODBYE LITERATURE

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/01/03/goodbye-literature/?singlepage=true These days I have trouble even getting to the sort of books — on Israeli and Middle Eastern politics and history — I see as a necessary nurturer for what I’m writing. Not long ago the top shelf of the pine hutch in my bedroom collapsed under the weight of its books. I stared […]