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1. By Dairymaid on Jan 1, 2007 | Reply

   I wish you all peace and health in the new year.
   اتمنى لكم جميعا السلام والصحة فى العام الجديد.

   But more than anything - Peace.

   
   
2. By Griffon on Jan 1, 2007 | Reply

   Excellent article from Jonathan Cook -End of the strongmen: Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war?

   “Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, for example, was similarly designed to anoint a Christian strongman and US stooge, Bashir Gemayel, as a compliant president who would agree to an anti-Syrian alliance with Israel.

   But decades of controlling and oppressing Palestinian society allowed Israel to develop a different approach to divide and rule: what might be termed organised chaos, or the “discord” model, one that came to dominate first its thinking and later that of the neocons.”

   snip

   “Israel’s discord model is now reaching its apotheosis: low-level and permanent civil war between the old guard of Fatah and the upstarts of Hamas. This kind of Palestinian in-fighting usefully depletes the society’s energies and its ability to organise against the real enemy: Israel and its enduring occupation.

   The neocons, it appears, have been impressed with this model and wanted to export it to other Middle Eastern states. Under Bush they sold it to the White House as the solution to the problems of Iraq and Lebanon, and ultimately of Iran and Syria too.”

   
   
3. By Richard on Jan 1, 2007 | Reply

   Happy new year to everyone, and peace on earth and good will to all.

   
   
4. By Sophia on Jan 2, 2007 | Reply

   Kul ‘Am Wa Intoo Bkheir.

   Griffon, this is damn good article by Cooke. I was explaining yesterday the chaos theory as a ‘coherent’ framework to understand USrael’s politics in the ME in a discussion with my the most rational of men I have ever known, my husband. He just could not believe me and believe that this can exist. Eventually I came to convince him only of the irrationality of the whole enterprise and he finally agreed but his recurrent argument was that nobody can ‘plan’ for chaos and mine was that of course nobody can plan for chaos but they can plant chaos and feed it whenever the occasion is offered to them…I am going to send him this link…