Showing posts with label tribalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tribalism. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2013

Kissinger: Yes, there is a good option for Syria



Henry Kissinger, who knew Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez well, claims that there is a good option for dealing with Syria. It involves undoing a nearly 100-year old mistake.

But the West is wrong to think it has no good options. It has a
superb and just option, one that will let history unfold as it should
have long ago. That option — to break up Syria into coherent nations —
was proposed

Peace through profits?



Everyone who is involved with high tech in Israel in any way has been asked to participate or has participated in an event promoting 'Palestinian' high tech. Yes, including me. The unstated goal of each of these events is that through working together on high tech projects, Israelis and 'Palestinians' will see each other as human beings with a basic humanity in common, and that this will

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Should Syria be divided?



David Ignatius reports - and laments - the fact that Syria is breaking apart.

What this means, said Taqi, is that any attempt to broker a
diplomatic solution must begin with a cease-fire, and with combatants
holding different slices of territory. The future Syria that emerges
will have to be a more decentralized state, reflecting the intense
feelings of communal separation and rage that