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2003-05-29 Fifth Column

Columbia University Beauzeau Sounds Off.

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Posted by Katz 2003-05-29 09:23 am|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whenever I open an Arabic newspaper these days (actually when I read one on the web), I wonder what they're putting in the water over there.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-29 09:45:48|| 2003-05-29 09:45:48|| Front Page Top

#2 *sigh* Moonbats!

Posted by Korora 2003-05-29 09:57:56|| 2003-05-29 09:57:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Prof Massad is "accosted by columns written by neo-liberals". Obviously he doesn't read Egyptian papers or Syrian papers or Libyan papers. Also its hard to image a newspaper column 'accosting' someone.

Posted by mhw 2003-05-29 10:24:03|| 2003-05-29 10:24:03|| Front Page Top

#4 This is what I mean when I say Arafat, his ilk and the surrounding muslim nations don't speak for the common palestinian. They were merely a 'cause' - for anti-Israeli and anti-American mobilization. Do you think for a moment that Saddam (the Saudis, Bashar, the Iranian zoo, etc.) gave a whit about those people in the camps? He didn't even care about his OWN people. The money he sent to boomers' families was just cruel enticement to more violence.

The paleos need to realize they 'ben played. Abbas needs to stiffarm Arafat (actually, have him shivved) cozy up to Bush, normalize ties with a recognized Israel and then ask for something bold - like Lebanon be placed under UN jursdiction (coalition would be better) and made host state for displaced paleos. The money we currently send to Israel and Egypt would be better spent relocating (and pacifying) the boomer draw pool.

Posted by Scott 2003-05-29 12:22:30|| 2003-05-29 12:22:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Voices in "Palestine"
Arafat: blah blah blah the jews are pure evil blah blah blah
Hamas: blah blah okay mahmoud, go blow yourself up blah blah blah
Rachel Corrie: blah blah blah it's all about oppression- aaaaiiieee!
Drug Addict: I came because you seem to have the good stuff here in plenty.

Posted by Katz 2003-05-29 15:22:59|| 2003-05-29 15:22:59|| Front Page Top

#6 note that he is using "neo-liberal" in a broader sense then that word is typically used in the US. Here in the US it was used for those who chose to pursue "liberal goals" but with greater flexibility of methods, including free market approaches. Used in regard to (and by) Gary Hart originally. Associated with Charles Peters and Washington Monthly. (obvious derivation from and contrast to Neo-conservative) Today we tend to use new democrat or third way, so term has gone out of use in USA.

Overseas it tends to mean revival of classical liberal approaches. In europe tends to mean more free market approaches - associated with Thatcherism. In arab world i presume it would refer to any positive attitude towards democratization, westernization, secularization, globalization.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-29 15:35:39|| 2003-05-29 15:35:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Among academic leftists in the US, "liberal" is a term of contempt and "neoliberal" is a term of villification (neoliberals, unlike plain liberals, never serve as "useful fools"). A neoliberal in this sense is anyone who stresses "liberty" (economic and social), which is seen by marxists as just another tool of exploitation.

Posted by closet neo-con 2003-05-29 22:35:46|| 2003-05-29 22:35:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Time to re-pave the "Arab Street"...

Posted by mojo 2003-05-29 23:48:25|| 2003-05-29 23:48:25|| Front Page Top

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