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A Plea on Behalf of John Galliano
March 1, 2011Alana Newhouse begs Abe Foxman:Dear ADL, I’ll give up Sheen and Gibson, but can I keep Galliano? Pretty please? He didn’t mean it, I swear. He’s just … British. Signed,Alana
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Best Line From That Nutty Vogue Piece
March 1, 2011Goldblog reader Dody Gunawinata points out this gem from the Vogue profile of Mrs. Assad:“Syria is known as the safest country in the Middle East, possibly because, as the State Department’s Web site says, ‘the Syrian government conducts intense physical and electronic surveillance of both Syrian citizens and foreign visitors.’”
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Slow Blogging on Account of Banging Seven-Gram Rocks
March 1, 2011Sorry for slowing down these last days. I’m working on some longer pieces, plus I have a lot of family responsibilities, and besides that, I’m busy banging seven-gram rocks like Charlie Sheen. Banging those seven-gram rocks can eat up a lot of time, it turns out. Plus it gets messy when I start bleeding from [...]
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Getting One of Those Qaddafi Scholarships at LSE
March 1, 2011It turns out that something like fifty percent of the faculty of the Middle East center at the London School of Economics supports the boycott of Israel. It also turns out that the Middle East center at the London School of Economics took large sums of money from the Qaddafi family. Who woulda thunk it?
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Qaradawis Views on Jews
February 26, 2011Yusuf Qaradawi, the Sunni scholar and spiritual mentor of Muslim Brotherhood-types across the Umma, has some pretty atrocious things to say about Jews. I was not fully aware of his theological antisemitism until I started digging around. I’ll post on this more once I finish reading some of the source material, but in the meantime [...]
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About That Honey Badger Who Does Not Give a Shit…
February 26, 2011I’ve been getting a lot of mail about the honey badger video I posted a few days ago (if you haven’t seen it, watch now). Some of my interlocutors are asking whether I posted the video because the honey badger is a metaphor for some aspect or another of life in the Middle East. The [...]
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Charlie Sheen Wins Goldblogs First Annual Mel Gibson Prize
February 26, 2011From The Times, concerning the actor Charlie Sheen’s ravings about Chuck Lorre, who created the show “Two and a Half Men” (which, by the way I’ve never seen, being an American Idol/Glee sort of guy myself):For no apparent reason, in both interviews Mr. Sheen said Mr. Lorre’s real name is Chaim Levine. He was born [...]
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Is Palestine the Obsession of Arabs?
February 24, 2011No, says Brendan O’Neill, it’s the obsession of Western leftists: UNTIL the Palestinians are given back their rights we’re going to have instability throughout the Middle East,” declared John Pilger on ABC1′s Q & A last night. “That is central to everything.” Yet, one of the most striking things about the uprising in Egypt was [...]
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What Its Like to Almost Interview Gaddafi
February 24, 2011David Ignatius on an unusual encounter:I can offer a shred of personal experience to support this view of the Libyan leader as an unstable and menacing person. In the early 1980s, I traveled to Tripoli with several other journalists hoping to interview Gaddafi. When the appointed date arrived, we were taken to a large hall, [...]
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Sheikh Qaradawi Seeks Total War
February 24, 2011Mark Gardner and Dave Rich did yeoman’s work not long ago, analyzing the Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s 2003 book, Fatawa Min Ajl Falastin, or Fatwas on Palestine, and came to the conclusion that this putatively moderate Islamic cleric argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned, and that the [...]
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Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen and Mike Huckabee Walk Into a Bar…
February 22, 2011…And run into Ben Smith, who elicits this statement from the Judeophilic (or something) Huckabee:“If you’ve been around a lot of Jewish people, particularly from New York, they tend to be very opinionated, very animated,” he said. “I felt like I was sitting between Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen — it was really interesting; it [...]
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Remembering 35 of Qaddafis Victims
February 22, 2011Reading about Colonel Qaddafi and his efforts to murder those who seek democracy in Libya, my mind inevitably turned to some of his other victims, the 259 people aboard Pan Am 103, and the 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, who died when a Libyan bomb blew the plane out of the sky. [...]
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What Was Richard Perle Doing With Col. Qaddafi?
February 22, 2011Laura Rozen asks some pertinent questions about the Colonel’s lobbyists in America:One of the more unlikely image-mongers that has worked to burnish Qadhafi’s and Libya’s image never registered with the Justice Department. Prominent neoconservative Richard Perle, the former Reagan-era Defense Department official and George W. Bush-era chairman of the Defense Policy Board, traveled to Libya [...]
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About That Strange U.N. Security Council Resolution…
February 19, 2011Robert Satloff explains the odd maneuverings at the U.N. I shouldn’t say “odd,” actually, because these maneuverings are entirely predictable. At a time when Arab peoples are preoccupied with the corruption of their leaders, their leaders, out of necessity, are focused on the perfidiousness of another Middle Eastern state:With the world focused on the political [...]
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Obama Does Bibi a Big Favor
February 19, 2011News from the United Nations:The United States on Friday voted against a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as illegal. The veto by the U.S., a permanent council member, prevented the resolution from being adopted. The other 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the draft resolution. But [...]