Posted in Hamas, Israel, Maps, Palestinians on Dec 31st, 2008 Comments Off on Situation map, Gaza crisis
From MESH Admin This map, released today by UNOSAT, presents reported attacks by Israel and Hamas from December 25 to 31, within and surrounding the Gaza Strip. “Damage locations have been taken exclusively from open media sources. Many recorded damage sites shown are approximate and may not represent all known incident locations.” Click on the […]
Posted in Daniel Byman, Iraq on Dec 30th, 2008 Comments Off on What went wrong in Iraq?
From Daniel Byman As the Iraq war moved from crisis to calamity in 2003 and 2004, it became clear to all observers that the occupation was deeply flawed. But what, exactly, was the problem? For many people, particularly in the academic world, the occupation was doomed because the invasion itself was illegitimate and ill-considered and […]
Posted in Josef Joffe on Dec 29th, 2008 Comments Off on On Samuel Huntington
From Josef Joffe The author writes this appreciation of Samuel Huntington with some trepidation. When he first met Sam as a graduate student at Harvard in 1969, he gave up after two lectures in his course “Political Order in Changing Societies.” He was driven away by Sam’s halting, diffident delivery. Also, remember that “cool,” which […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians on Dec 28th, 2008 Comments Off on Tacit bargaining, Gaza-style
From Alan Dowty Operation Oferet Yetsukah (“Cast Lead,” on the model of “Cast Iron”) has reportedly been planned for months, in anticipation of the breakdown or non-renewal of the tahdi’a (“lull,” not “truce”) between Hamas and Israel. Drawing upon the lessons of the Lebanese fiasco of 2006 and the conclusions of the Winograd Commission, it […]
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, Robert Satloff on Dec 28th, 2008 Comments Off on Gaza conflict, U.S. objectives
From Robert Satloff The Gaza conflict was born the day Hamas took control of the Strip; the clock started ticking the day the “calm” began six months ago. Unlike all of Israel’s other neighbors, save Hezbollah, Hamas is an existential adversary of Israel, not a competitor for some slice of territory or for the affection […]
Posted in Announcements on Dec 28th, 2008 Comments Off on Samuel P. Huntington, 1927-2008
From MESH Admin The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the U.S. Department of Defense. It is the […]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Joshua Muravchik, Palestinians, Steven A. Cook on Dec 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Steven A. Cook The events in Gaza over this weekend present a number of internal and external challenges for the Egyptian government, again raising questions about Cairo’s capacity to deal effectively with regional crises. Needless to say, the Israeli Air Force’s offensive against Hamas coming soon after Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rebuffed Egyptian […]
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