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The highly-evolved Financial Times calls Damascus the “Prague’ of the Arab world–cheap, with a beautiful old city, it has become the cool place for internationals to study Arabic. I’d add these elements: Arab hospitality and the incredible Roman ruins, everywhere….

Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…

Ralph Seliger writes: If my feelings about Iraq were so centered on Israel, wouldn’t I have continued to support the invasion even after the UN Security Council had voted against it? To me, the nightmare scenario is defining the Israeli-Arab…