Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Barry Rubin, one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and humanistic observers of the intersection between Israel and the rest of the world died yesterday from cancer, at age 64. I cannot improve on Rick Moran’s words about him: Barry Rubin was director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA)
Continue readingI have long been singularly fortunate in that Barry Rubin periodically corresponds with me. He is a light in the blogosphere: informed, brilliant, objective, open-minded, decent, and kind. Read any one of his posts about the Middle East, and you will learn more than you will learn in a year
Continue readingWhen it comes to the Middle East, I’m hard-put to think of a more astute, knowledgeable observer than Barry Rubin. In light of the Egyptian court ruling striking down large parts of the recent elections, and the military’s subsequent power move, he’s not sanguine about Egypt’s future: The Egyptian Supreme
Continue readingAccording to Barry Rubin, who has forgotten more about the Middle East than most people (including State Department employees) will know in a lifetime, Ron Paul is Wrong Paul when it comes to Iran. First, what’s happened in the last decade is irrelevant, since Iran hatred long preceded that. The
Continue readingI’ve never doubted Obama’s fundamental anti-Israel beliefs, nor have I ever thought he’s on a right, or even a sane, track in the Middle East. As much as anything, though, my feelings regarding Obama’s Israel/Middle East attitudes were predicated on a gut attitude resulting from his pre-presidency friendships and his
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