In Kuwait for the week

Posted By Stephen M. Walt Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 6:13 PM Share

I flying to a conference  in Kuwait this weekend, and won't be back until the end of the week. Blogging will be relatively light, therefore, but I will try to get online if and when I can. It's a long flight and I'm taking my Kindle, and will be reading Bruce Cumings's new book on the Korean War and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. You know: just the sort of cheerful reading that makes somebody a realist.

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VIVAPALESTIN

1:48 AM ET

December 13, 2010

Thanks for the update steve

I look forward to future diatribes against Goldberg and obfuscation of reality.

 

CHARYBDIS

11:03 AM ET

December 13, 2010

Joan Peters

Searching the web for information on the Stockholm bomb on Saturday, I happened to stumble upon a website, http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/, displaying a lot of praise for Joan Peter´s infamous book "From Time Immemorial". Gosh, celebrating such a stone dead falsification!

Thanks for your reading tips!

 

ALBERT DERW

1:18 PM ET

December 13, 2010

money

on your way you can make a stop in Germany and pivk up some
cash just like your brothers

NYT:

newly declassified documents. elaborates on the close working relationship between Nazi leaders and the Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini

In fact, the report says, the Palestinian leader was paid “an absolute fortune” of 50,000 marks a month he energetically recruited Muslims for the SS, and was promised that he would be installed as the leader of Palestine after German troops drove out the British and exterminated more than 350,000 Jews there.

On Nov. 28, 1941 Hitler told Husseini that the Afrika Corps and German troops deployed from the Caucasus region would liberate Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.”

lets say you could get 67 000 Euro in return for your propaganda beyond the current payments you take from Saudi

 

GAHGEER

8:45 PM ET

December 13, 2010

Haters will always hate

We also know of many Palestinians who fought on the side of the British forces during WWII and died for it. I advise you to visit the War cemetry in Gaza to see for yourself. Therefore, pack up your second-hand flea-market information because it's not worth a penny from AIPAC's payroll.

The simplest google query will equally show you that Zionists cooperated with the very SS and Hitler's machine you are deriding. Does this make all Jews guilty? Obviously there is no need to use more English words in trying to address your pathological hatred.

Dr Steve - happy visit and enjoy the warm weather in Kuwait - although it might be too humid there :-)

 

NEOLEFT

3:16 AM ET

December 14, 2010

Who's brother's Andrew?

The Stern gang had no qualms about asking the Nazi's for cash, and were supported by Italian fascists aligned with Hitler.

 

NEOLEFT

3:20 AM ET

December 14, 2010

Speaking of brothers

My favorite example of Zionists’ concern for their fellow Jews during WWII is the bombing of the SS Patria in Haifa harbor by the Haganah.

Apparently these brother’s keepers didn’t like the British plan to send European Jewish refugees to camps in Mauritius for the duration of the war. A couple hundred were killed so the terrorists could make the point that Jewish victims of the Holocaust were better off dead in Eretz Israel, than alive in Mauritius.

 

SHABTAI260

3:29 AM ET

December 14, 2010

US Military in Kuwait

Just wondering if you could write an article about the state of the US Military in Kuwait.
I would like to hear your opinions on the effect of troops stationed there (as well as bases such as Camp Arifjan) on international terrorism, Kuwaiti democracy, as well as their overall importance to the US Grand Strategy.
I am a High School debater and our topic this year is about weather or not the US should reduce its military presence in certain countries, one of which is Kuwait. I would greatly appreciate your insights about weather or not it is a good idea for the US to withdraw its troops from Kuwait

Thanks

 

SABABA03

5:30 PM ET

December 14, 2010

Any Belly Dancing in the plan?

hey professor,
Don't forget to attend the belly dancing in Kuwait city. I look forward to read about them on your next blog.

 

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.

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