Juan Cole prints a map and the blogosphere erupts

http://hnn.us/article/156321
by Juan Cole

Juan Cole is Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. He maintains a blog on US foreign policy and progressive politics, Informed Comment. His newest book is, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East (Simon and Schuster), 

… As part of my original posting, I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of showing graphically what has happened to the Palestinians politically and territorially in the past century.
Andrew Sullivan then mirrored the map from my site, which set off a lot of thunder and noise among anti-Palestinian writers like Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, but shed very little light. (PS, the map as a hard copy mapcard is available from Sabeel.)

BUSH MUST BE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE MAP...

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..."the occupation regime over Washington must vanish from the page of time"



Which is it?

But, protested Bush, who had just been told by Putin that he wouldn’t even be allowed to launch a "surgical" attack – much less another war of aggression – against Iran from our "temporary" air base in Azerbaijan,

"We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel."

(That’s a lie, of course. Ahmadinejad has never made such an announcement.)

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