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Posted by Edmund James on 16:07:27 2008/05/12
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Re: Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad by Caroline Glick posted by Margaret and Mike
I suggested Gertrude Bell because of her eclectic abilties and selection by Winston Churchill for her intelligence and toughness not that she was an Arabist. Margaret and Mike's comment seem to imply that they are pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. It's the Jews fault.
Frankly, the jihadists would have found an excuse, which by the way is the Infidel. Iran goes back to the history of the Shah of Khwarizm who broke away from the Sunni Caliphate of Baghdad, (present day Iraq) and the story continues: Who will be the ruling caliphate.
Gertrude Bell, as far as I know, was not anti-Jews and I will try to find out more about her stance. But this much I do know she was a confidante of King Faisal of Iraq and drew the borders after WWI knowing that there would be problems.
"Mesopotamia is not a civilised state," Gertrude Bell wrote to her father on December 18 1920.
The Ba'ath is facing extinction. Any US civil and military administration in its place will have the precedent of Bell's 1920 white paper (typically, the first ever written by a woman), Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia. Sixteen volumes of diaries and about 1,600 letters to her parents, transcribed and posted on the web by the University of Newcastle library (www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk) are a must-read at the Pentagon, less for their portrait of an oriental culture in its last phase as for their perilous mingling of political insight and blind elation.
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