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FTAC – Why the Middle East Conflict Will Be Drawn Down (If It Is ‘Drawn Down’)
Why things haven’t changed and may not until the root of the conflict has been made clear. https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/ The Russian state’s history of political...
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FTAC – Moscow – Beyond Rapprochement? Not So Fast!
President Barack Obama is not the official who needs to be “outflanked” — nor is President Elect Donald J. Trump. https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/...
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FTAC – Module – 12-25-1991 -> 12-25-2016
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/ https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/11/28/a-short-page-referencing-works-by-or-associated-with-ion-mihai-pacepa/ The Cold War ended...
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FTAC – Sarsour, Middle East Conflict, and Moscow
KGB –> Arafat + PLO –> MEC as a kleptocratic device for those in with Moscow : UNRWA, political repression of the Palestinian community, financial exploitation of the same + “noble” sacrifice of...
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Also in Media: “Can Trump Reset the Middle East?”– Philos Project – Andrew...
Hendel (speaking from Israel via Skype) said that in Trump’s black-and-white “clash of civilizations” outlook on Islam, the president sees Israel as the “bad guy” facing off against the “good guy.” But...
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FTAC: Why Ain’t You Special?
The modern west is fighting the feudal past. Where feudalism appears as though it might prevail, those invested in their most parochial definitions of culture — x gender x race x religion — take...
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Also in Media: “The end of Palestine. Israel has the opportunity to reclaim...
Palestine is many things. A Roman name and a Cold War lie. Mostly it’s a justification for killing Jews. Palestine was an old Saudi-Soviet scam which invented a fake nationality for the Arab clans who...
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FTAC – Middle East Conflict – Schematic
I know — Russian anti-Semitism -> Rise of Nazism -> Cold War and the Soviet effort in the middle east —...
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Also in Media: “The View from Israel: The Inevitable Outcome of the...
How about the future political face of Palestine? In Gaza, Hamas just elected their replacement to Ismael Haniyeh. If you thought that the old face of Hamas was bad, the new face is even worse....
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FTAC: Dismissing the Mockery of the Mocking Bird
The conversational partner wished to play Atticus on behalf of the Palestinians apparently beset by Israeli nationalist — “Zionazis” in the more fervent of anti-Semitic Lost Left circles. The analogy...
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FTAC: MEC – Passing Into History (One Hopes One Day Soon)
Q: “Is it our psychology or our nature that prevents us from being peace loving people?” A: As regards the “middle east conflict”: _malign and manipulated_ psychology. Post-WWII, post-Nazi Germany,...
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FTAC: Observation: Arab Refusal of Culpability for the Middle East Conflict
Prompt: mention of “Israel apartheid” (a standard trope in the anti-Semitic wings of the New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left) and “letting the refugees return”. How about ending Arab apartheid and...
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FTAC: MEC: Russia’s Earlier Influence of the Palestinians
I’ve harped on this answer around Facebook, and may have gotten a bad rep for it, but I stand behind what I have found in relation to the middle east conflict and the political history of the 20th...
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Also in Media: “How to save Gaza: Palestinian American says it’s time to stop...
Now, as an American citizen living in San Francisco, I can write about my experiences and perspectives in ways that many in Gaza cannot, fearing only that my parents, siblings and other family members...
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FTAC: Middle East Conflict – Moscow’s Project – Abbas’s End
Abba — Arafat’s known and others may be suspect — bend to Moscow (the KGB record never goes away), and as Moscow has nowhere to go that wouldn’t be trapped in a century-and-one-half old imperial time...
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FTAC: Middle East Conflict (MEC): On the Facing of Uncomfortable Truths . . ....
Affect –> Negative or Positive Emotion x Intensity Attitude = Belief x Affect Is a thing true or false, and if true, is it a good thing or a bad thing? So Belief +/- contributes to Attitude. Beliefs...
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FTAC: Responding to an Attempt to Conflate the Kurdish Struggle with the...
Prompt: “Kurdish statehood aspiration is mirror image of Palestinian statehood aspiration. Both will bring regional security and stability.” (Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, leader of the Islamic moderate...
View ArticleOn President Trump’s ‘Jerusalem Declaration’
The prompt: opprobrium for much of President Trump’s other actions and utterances with glowing exception for announcing the moving of the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump has to respond to internal...
View ArticleFTAC: Palestinian Captivity: Thank Moscow for the PLO
It’s Russia that has used its power to keep the Palestinian leaders in loot and the Palestinian main base bereft. If the phrase “free will and determination” of Palestinians is to have any meaning at...
View ArticleFTAC: Middle East Conflict: The Absurd Preoccupation
While the Laws of War may apply to contested space and recognize the division between the “occupier” and the “occupied” — and the “stronger” and the “weaker” for that matter — there’s something now...
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