<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Sandbox by Martin Kramer</title><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/</link><description>Analysis of the Middle East by Martin Kramer.</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 sandbox.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:31:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Sandbox by Martin Kramer</title><url>http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/Sandbox/Sandboxcombo.jpg</url><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Take a fundamentalist to the beach</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/take_a_fundamentalist_to_the_beach.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/take_a_fundamentalist_to_the_beach.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=take%5Fa%5Ffundamentalist%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fbeach</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's summertime and the reading is easy. Martin Kramer recommends a novella, and points to more recommendations by his colleagues.]]></description></item><item><title>Is America washed up in the Middle East?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/is_america_washed_up_in_the_middle_east.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/is_america_washed_up_in_the_middle_east.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Famerica%5Fwashed%5Fup%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fmiddle%5Feast</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The American era in the Middle East has ended." From Richard Haass to Fareed Zakaria, the pundits say American dominance is over. 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Palestinian?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/are_columbias_palestinians_palestinian.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/are_columbias_palestinians_palestinian.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=are%5Fcolumbias%5Fpalestinians%5Fpalestinian</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jane Kramer has done a fawning piece on Nadia Abu El-Haj for The New Yorker. But why does Kramer insist that Abu El-Haj isn't Palestinian? By her criteria, Rashid Khalidi isn't Palestinian either. Martin Kramer takes a closer look.]]></description></item><item><title>Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/dr_esposito_and_the_seven_percent_solution.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/dr_esposito_and_the_seven_percent_solution.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dr%5Fesposito%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fseven%5Fpercent%5Fsolution</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The new book Who Speaks for Islam? by John L. Esposito, in partnership with Gallup, is reassuring: "about nine out of ten Muslims are moderates," it reports; only 7% are radicals. How did they reach that figure? They played with their own numbers.]]></description></item><item><title>Disraelia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/disraelia.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/disraelia.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=disraelia</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Walter Laqueur's counterfactual history, Disraelia, is a riveting read. But Martin Kramer will take his chances with Israel as it is.]]></description></item><item><title>For experts only</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/for_experts_only.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/for_experts_only.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=for%5Fexperts%5Fonly</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you have a professional interest in the Middle East and U.S. strategy, consider joining MESHNet, a discussion forum organized in association with Middle East Strategy at Harvard. Martin Kramer tells you more.]]></description></item><item><title>Esposito&apos;s predictions, right and wrong</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/esposito_predictions_right_and_wrong.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/esposito_predictions_right_and_wrong.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=esposito%5Fpredictions%5Fright%5Fand%5Fwrong</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 2002, John Esposito made a few predictions about the Middle East five years after an Iraq war. Martin Kramer looks at how he did.]]></description></item><item><title>Confusion at Columbia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=confusion%5Fat%5Fcolumbia</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What is the story behind the directorship of Columbia's Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies? Martin Kramer sets the record straight and probes further.]]></description></item><item><title>Speaking truth to Power</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/speaking_truth_to_power.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/speaking_truth_to_power.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=speaking%5Ftruth%5Fto%5Fpower</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning's Washington Post and New York Times describe Samantha Power as Obama's closest foreign policy adviser, and a likely cabinet member. Now she's trying to mitigate her past criticisms of Israel. Martin Kramer questions the backfilling.]]></description></item><item><title>Columbia&apos;s Israelis</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_israelis.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_israelis.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=columbia%5Fisraelis</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amnon Rubinstein has reported on the life of a visiting Israeli prof at Columbia, and it isn't pretty. The Israelis there are part of the problem. And Martin Kramer asks: what about that Israeli chair established by Lee Bollinger? 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Martin Kramer considers the evidence.]]></description></item><item><title>Gaza buried in flour</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_buried_in_flour.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_buried_in_flour.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gaza%5Fburied%5Fin%5Fflour</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Did you know that the average Gazan consumes half a ton of flour a day? And that Israel has reduced that by 99 percent? Who says? A Gazan psychiatrist and a Harvard "political economist" writing in the Boston Globe. Martin Kramer explores.]]></description></item><item><title>Gaza en Égypte</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_en_egypte.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_en_egypte.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gaza%5Fen%5Fegypte</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A French translation of the posting "Egypt into Gaza" by Martin Kramer.]]></description></item><item><title>Gaza into Egypt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_into_egypt.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_into_egypt.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gaza%5Finto%5Fegypt</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When the pressure mounted in Gaza, it's no surprise that the Egyptian border gave way. Egypt and Gaza are inextricably linked. Martin Kramer looks beyond the moment, to the history and future of proposals for involving Egypt in a solution for Gaza.]]></description></item><item><title>Memo from Gulfistan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/memo_from_gulfistan.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/memo_from_gulfistan.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memo%5Ffrom%5Fgulfistan</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a new Middle East! The Sunni Arabs will line up with Israel and America against Iran! That's what the experts said. But a memo to the ruler of Gulfistan tells a different story...]]></description></item><item><title>Crude and tasteless</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/crude_and_tasteless.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/crude_and_tasteless.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=crude%5Fand%5Ftasteless</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan says only Trotskyites compare their adversaries to fascists. So why does the magazine he founded compare Giuliani to a Nazi? Martin Kramer examines the crude and tasteless rhetoric of the paleocons.]]></description></item><item><title>Kicking footnotes of &apos;The Israel Lobby&apos;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kicking_footnotes_in_the_israel_lobby.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kicking_footnotes_in_the_israel_lobby.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kicking%5Ffootnotes%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fisrael%5Flobby</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has over 1,200 footnotes. Martin Kramer concludes: not only do the authors only cite sources that support their argument. They cite sources that don't, while claiming that they do.]]></description></item><item><title>Mearsheimer, Walt, and &quot;cold feet&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/mearsheimer_walt_and_cold_feet.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/mearsheimer_walt_and_cold_feet.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mearsheimer%5Fwalt%5Fand%5Fcold%5Ffeet</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt appear at Princeton University tonight. Martin Kramer raises his hand to ask this: provide just one shred of evidence for your "cold feet" thesis about the  genesis of the Iraq war.]]></description></item><item><title>I&apos;m whacked by a party hack</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/whacked_by_a_party_hack.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/whacked_by_a_party_hack.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whacked%5Fby%5Fa%5Fparty%5Fhack</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ira N. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, has taken a whack at Martin Kramer's recent op-ed on Hillary Clinton and Israel. So Kramer whacks back.]]></description></item><item><title>Hillary: Triangulation on Israel?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/hillary_clinton_triangulation_on_israel.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/hillary_clinton_triangulation_on_israel.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hillary%5Fclinton%5Ftriangulation%5Fon%5Fisrael</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's foreign policy statement in the magazine Foreign Affairs employs formulas that aren't used by friends of Israel. Martin Kramer explains.]]></description></item><item><title>World War IV?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/world_war_iv.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/world_war_iv.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=world%5Fwar%5Fiv</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Commentary invited a diverse group of thinkers to consider Norman Podhoretz's new book, World War IV. This is my contribution.]]></description></item><item><title>The Middle East and elections &apos;08</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_middle_east_and_elections_08.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_middle_east_and_elections_08.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fmiddle%5Feast%5Fand%5Felections%5F08</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remarks made by Martin Kramer to a closed session on the Middle East and elections 2008. At the time, he was senior Middle East adviser to Rudy Giuliani.]]></description></item><item><title>Our sorcery exposed!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/our_sorcery_exposed.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/our_sorcery_exposed.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=our%5Fsorcery%5Fexposed</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Newsweek magazine has run a piece on the neocons in Rudy Giuliani's campaign. In the graphic that accompanies the article, our occult powers are exposed. Damn!]]></description></item><item><title>Juan Cole loses head</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/juan_cole_loses_head.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/juan_cole_loses_head.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=juan%5Fcole%5Floses%5Fhead</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Juan Cole compares Napoleon to Bush, and says Bush deploys more terror than his French predecessor, although the French taught Muslims how to behead their enemies. Martin Kramer on how Juan Cole is making history, or at least making it up.]]></description></item></channel></rss>