Crossing the Crescent

A fair number of liberals swooning over President Barack Obama’s recent speechmaking are also impressed by his rhetorical overtures to Arabs and Muslims, first articulated during his inaugural address and reiterated on a major Arabic-language news channel.

The sharp divergence in tone and tenor from Bush’s rhetoric is certainly welcome after eight years of hubris and arrogance.

Quoting from → Read More: A Muslim’s Memo to Obama: Words Cannot Camouflage Cluster Bombs

(A slightly different version of this ran in WireTap yesterday)

As Palestinian corpses—and Israel’s excuses for creating them—continue to mount in Gaza with explosive ferocity, media attention is tightly focused on the maneuvering of the well-synchronized Israelis and Americans on the one hand and the ever-divided Arabs on the other.

But from the outset, political analysts have said that the Gaza → Read More: Urban Iran Book Review

A Return from Hiatus

I have not updated this blog in a couple months.

The past few weeks, I had been very sick – a pre-existing medical condition, ulcerative colitis, flared up, and a drug I had been taking to treat it for a long time has at least temporarily induced another ailment, Type 2 diabetes.

→ Read More: A Return from Hiatus