The Iconoclast

Cooking the Intelligence Books on Iran

March 23, 2015
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G. Murphy Donovan

“Love is whatever you can still betray.” – John Le Carre There was a time that intelligence estimates were cloaked in secrecy. Peer review, such that it was, was limited […]

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Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust

March 23, 2015
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Joseph S. Spoerl

INTRODUCTION One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust. Palestinians […]

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Islam, The Murder Of Fakhunda, And What Helena Malikyar Cannot Say

March 23, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Al Jazeera is the propaganda organ of nasty little Qatar, and a stout Defender of the Faith, with all sorts of distractions and deflections as the arrows in its quiver.  […]

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Who Whom’s On First In Libya

March 23, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Kwazy Kat and Offizer Pup, fighting each other with abandon  in Sirte and Derna, in Benghazi and Zintan, here. Kto kogo? It’ll take a while to sort out. A long […]

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Macron Economics

March 23, 2015
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Theodore Dalrymple

It’s received wisdom that France does not reform except by violence. Since I heard my French brother-in-law repeat this wisdom recently, I believe that it must be true. The French […]

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Hayden, Heinonen, Takeyh: American Folly, Iranian Time Bomb

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Not Benjamin Netanyahu, not Tom Cotton, but Michael Hayden, Olli Heinonen, and Ray Takeyh, on the Iranian strategy, and the danger of allowing only a year to detect, judge, decide […]

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A Musical Interlude: Yes, My Darling Daughter (Elsie Carlisle)

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Listen here.

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How The BBC Covered The Death Of Lee Kuan Yew

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

I listened to the BBC coverage of the death of Lee Kuan Yew. It was all about how he had taken this sleepy backwater and transformed it into a rich […]

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Lebanese Cleric: Israel Will Come To An End In Seven Years

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

The year 2022 (according to the lunar calendar), but I forget what year that is A.H. You do the math. It’s not just according to the Qur’an but, says Maher […]

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What They Were Chanting In The Houthi Mosque Just Before The Bomb Went Off

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Watch, and listen, here.  

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Why Minneapolis is the US Hub for ISIS Recruitment?

March 22, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

Abdi Nur, right, posted a photo online from Syria. A friend, Abdullah Yusuf, left, was stopped as he tried to depart. Top, an image of Western passports put up by […]

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The Regrets And Despair Of Jake Bilardi’s Father

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. His mentally ill child was exploited by the Muslims of the Islamic State, who used him up, in their version of cannon-fodder, as a suicide bomber. It’s what gave […]

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McCain Asks Obama To Get Over His Temper Tantrum

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

He’s not the only one who wishes that. Out of petulance, in a fit of pique, Obama threatens to undo, to reverse, nearly a half-century of understanding about Israel’s quandary. […]

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The Italian Writer Erri De Luca Hospitalized

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Erri De Luca was stricken while rock-climbing — a “light ischemia” — and fell, and was taken to the hospital. This was announced, just tonight, in the middle of a […]

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The baroness, Islamic extremists and a question of free speech

March 22, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

Andrew Gillligan in the . It, too, has defended Cage, accusing the media of trying to discredit the group after the “Jihadi John” episode. It, too, has links to Haddad, […]

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Thank God Western "Imperialists" Took, And Thereby Rescued, From Muslim Destruction, What Antiquities They Did.

March 22, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Everyone sees that now. Even, believe it or not, the BBC. Go to the Louvre, the British Museum, or the Berlin Museum with the Ishtar Gate lions, or even such […]

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