The other day, I brought this January 2004 quote from Chas Freeman, just named to head of the National Intelligence Council (NIC): The heart of the poison is the Israel-Palestinian conundrum. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was told by Saudi friends that on Saudi TV there were three terrorists who came out and …
Tag: 9/11
Chas Freeman and 9/11
How important has resentment of Israel been to Al Qaeda's terrorism? Here is one side of the argument, by an American who knows Saudi Arabia well: The heart of the poison is the Israel-Palestinian conundrum. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was told by Saudi friends that on Saudi TV there were three terrorists …
Cole spills wine at Cana
Juan Cole today opens a dramatic post with the following passage, in response to the deaths yesterday, from Israeli fire, of several dozen Palestinian civilians sheltering at an UNRWA school in Gaza: In 1996, Israeli jets bombed a UN building where civilians had taken refuge at Cana/Qana in south Lebanon, killing 102 persons; in the …
Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution
This book should carry a label on its jacket: Warning! Belief in Saudi-backed pseudo-science is dangerous to America's health.
Making Cole-slaw of history
For a trained historian, even in Middle Eastern studies, Juan Cole is scandalously incompetent when it comes to cause and effect. Here's his latest gaffe, made in the context of the London bombings: According to the September 11 Commission report, al-Qaeda conceived 9/11 in some large part as a punishment on the US for supporting …
Default analysis and the F-16 theory
From Martin Kramer, "Jihad 101," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 87-95. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. "Why do they hate us?" The suicide hijackers did nor say, leaving Americans to ponder what drove so many men to commit such horrific acts and sacrifice their own lives in the process. As the evidence accumulated and the …
Predict this
From Martin Kramer, "Jihad 101," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 87-95. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. Who even imagined the possibility of a September 11? Well, you might say, Steven Emerson and Daniel Pipes did. Well, you are wrong. Richard Bulliet, professor of Islamic history and past director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute, now …
From Afghanistan to Araby
This article by Martin Kramer appeared in National Review Online on December 10, 2001. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. Will September 11 be remembered as a watershed in the Middle East? The answer to that question now depends on one factor only: the determination of the United States. As it stands now, the answer is "no." …
Terrorism? What terrorism?!
This op-ed by Martin Kramer appeared in the Wall Street Journal on November 15, 2001. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. The Middle East Studies Association of North America convenes Saturday in San Francisco. Its membership includes 2,600 "experts" on the Middle East, most of them based in universities. On Sept. 21, MESA's board issued a statement …
The War on Terror
It's contempt, not hatred, that made 9/11 possible. America must banish it.
Book launch: Ivory Towers on Sand
Remarks by Martin Kramer upon the October 2001 launch of his book Ivory Towers on Sand.
Hijacking Islam
This article by Martin Kramer was published at National Review Online on September 19, 2001. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. Islam, the religion of more than a billion believers, has been hijacked. If the first week's suspicions are confirmed, the suicide attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are the capstones of nearly twenty …
No greater hate: What inspires the Muslim kamikazes?
Martin Kramer's initial assessment of the 9/11 attacks.
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