In Six Days of War, Oren claims that the Israeli government did not understand Nasser's intentions, but Israel might have had a conduit right into Nasser's closest confidants and used this information source to manoeuvre Egypt into a confrontation in which Israel would be able to conquer territories for which it had lusted for over a decade.

Abdullah (Mark) Schleifer follows such a line of thought in his book entitled The Fall of Jerusalem. See link to eaazi.blogspot.com
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If anyone is interested, I have put up complete versions of Judonia Rising on my web site. They can be found via the blog entry at link to eaazi.blogspot.com
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A lot of my analysis was inspired by discussions on this blog.

If one still wants to make the comparison, Pakistan is actually a closer kin to Israel, because Pakistan was created as a "national home" for Muslims, whereas India is a state of all its citizens. Even though Muslims are discriminated against in India, they are not excluded by definition from being "Indians" because of their religion.

I think the only just comparison that can be made is that the British were ultimately responsible for both tragedies due to their long history of colonial divide-and-rule policies.

Phil's mantra has a grain of truth. It is, exclusively, the western world that is moving this way. But we ignore the fact that the East is not at our peril.

Rubbish. Moshe Dayan in his autobiography claimed the Israeli government knew very well Nasser was not going to attack. But Oren's regurgitation of Israeli propaganda in his book is so revered amongst the zionist lobby in America, as it propagates the myth of Israeli defending itself from Arab hostility(as it steals more land) Oren was also front and centre in the propaganda drive during the assault on Lebanon two years ago.

No doubt on Witty's and Gideon's top 10 list…

1.trust and social capital decline per the Putnam report (Putnam "Bowling Alone" Harvard liberal).

2. boom in home and private schooling k1-12. There are 200K Jewish kids in Jewish schools. When you include the Jewish kids in other private schools e.g. Phillips Andover tyhen you can see how isolated the kids of th elite are from the unfolding debacle of 3rd world immigration. (If this immigration is so good then why dontthe elites send theor kids to the schools full of the 3rd world immigrants? Answer: they lknow that it's not good for their kids. perhaps the elite is alittle less racially based. But its sense of exclusion results in ZERO noblesse oblige for the struggling white middle class who are taking the brunt of hurt from the disastrous finance-based policies, immigration and "endless wars for peace" that the neoCons love.

It's like having a string of Jews appointed to the US Supreme Court, or a black.

It doesn't even matter what they really will do on the issues.

Well, actually it does, but the role, the iconic model offered, nobody is condemned by accident of birth, is the value to everyone around the globe.

This is the strongest force in history over the long haul.

It means the USA will remain the global spiritual force, despite its warts, its best attempts at being like the rest over history

Rubber-stamping the Israel regime is a losing proposition no amount of pure force can make up.

I'd like to see W & M tackle Saudi Arabia next.

That's another losing proposition.

I'm willing to pay more at the pump, just to ween us from another tribal regime that doesn't even have the Shoah to cover its ass.

I think this is a true observation. As the years roll on, the gentile white middle class (currently everybody working and white under or at the social security tax cap), its numbers steadily dwindling from illegal and legal immigration de facto policies and intermarriage, will at some point rise up in sudden resistance.

Nobody likes paying for the sins of the fathers forever.