<?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 2009 sandbox.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:00:00 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>Coming to Columbia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/coming_to_columbia.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/coming_to_columbia.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=coming%5Fto%5Fcolumbia</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What I will (and won't) be discussing at Columbia on Monday evening.]]></description></item><item><title>Shalem College takes off</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/shalem_college_takes_off.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/shalem_college_takes_off.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shalem%5Fcollege%5Ftakes%5Foff</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Martin Kramer has been named president-designate of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, planned to open in 2012. He shares his vision of the college with Elliot Jager of the Jerusalem Post.]]></description></item><item><title>More from Martin Kramer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_from_martin_kramer.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_from_martin_kramer.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Ffrom%5Fmartin%5Fkramer</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Want more blogging from Martin Kramer? Here's how to find it.]]></description></item><item><title>Some day, Yale&apos;s prince will come</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/some_day_yales_prince_will_come.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/some_day_yales_prince_will_come.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=some%5Fday%5Fyales%5Fprince%5Fwill%5Fcome</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yale won't publish the Danish cartoons in a book about them, for fear of violence. Is that the real reason? Or is an Arab mega-donor in Yale's sights? Martin Kramer explores.]]></description></item><item><title>Fear-mongering at Yale</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/fear_mongering_at_yale.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/fear_mongering_at_yale.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fear%5Fmongering%5Fat%5Fyale</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What sort of "expert" advised Yale not to publish the Danish cartoons in a book about... the Danish cartoons? Martin Kramer looks at one.]]></description></item><item><title>Kissed to death by America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kissed_to_death_by_america.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kissed_to_death_by_america.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kissed%5Fto%5Fdeath%5Fby%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is Obama right not to give Iran's protesters a "kiss-of-death" endorsement? Doubtful. But if that's his logic, why is he kissing "two-state solution" to death?]]></description></item><item><title>Obama&apos;s Middle East map in shreds</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obamas_middle_east_map_in_shreds.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obamas_middle_east_map_in_shreds.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=obamas%5Fmiddle%5Feast%5Fmap%5Fin%5Fshreds</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Obama's mental map of the Middle East has been Palestine-centric. Now it's in shreds.]]></description></item><item><title>Iranian turmoil</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/iranian_turmoil.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/iranian_turmoil.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=iranian%5Fturmoil</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Americans do not have the experience or the psychological insight to understand Persia." A British expert said that half a century ago. Martin Kramer asks whether we've learned anything since then.]]></description></item><item><title>Sweeping Khalidi under Obama&apos;s rug</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/sweeping_khalidi_under_obamas_rug.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/sweeping_khalidi_under_obamas_rug.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sweeping%5Fkhalidi%5Funder%5Fobamas%5Frug</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post says Obama got his view of West Bank settlements from concerned Jews. Where did they get theirs? The road leads back to... Rashid Khalidi.]]></description></item><item><title>Obama and the Muslims</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obama_and_the_muslims.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obama_and_the_muslims.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=obama%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fmuslims</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Martin Kramer assesses President Obama's Cairo speech to the world's Muslims. Napoleonic hubris mixed with a Third Worldist sensibility.]]></description></item><item><title>He walks with the Islamists, talks with the Islamists</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/he_walks_with_the_islamists_talks_to_the_islamists.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/he_walks_with_the_islamists_talks_to_the_islamists.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=he%5Fwalks%5Fwith%5Fthe%5Fislamists%5Ftalks%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fislamists</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke, engager of extremists, is profiled in today's New York Times. I debated him in 2005. Here are the proceedings.]]></description></item><item><title>An extreme case at Columbia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/an_extreme_case_at_columbia.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/an_extreme_case_at_columbia.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fextreme%5Fcase%5Fat%5Fcolumbia</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Who has the right to confer tenure at Columbia--and on Joseph Massad? The statutes say one thing. Radical faculty think another.]]></description></item><item><title>Columbia set to crash</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_set_to_crash.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_set_to_crash.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=columbia%5Fset%5Fto%5Fcrash</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joseph Massad's tenure case is going to Columbia's trustees. The reputation of a university hangs in the balance.]]></description></item><item><title>Policy and the academy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/policy_and_the_academy.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/policy_and_the_academy.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=policy%5Fand%5Fthe%5Facademy</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The political scientists wait by the phone for Obama's call... and wait... and wait. Some context.]]></description></item><item><title>Too late to stop Massad?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/too_late_to_stop_massad.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/too_late_to_stop_massad.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too%5Flate%5Fto%5Fstop%5Fmassad</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is Joseph Massad's tenure at Columbia a done deal? Apparently not. Martin Kramer explains why.]]></description></item><item><title>Massad&apos;s alcohol analysis</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/massads_alcohol_analysis.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/massads_alcohol_analysis.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=massads%5Falcohol%5Fanalysis</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why do Palestinian liberals fear Hamas? It's simple, says Joseph Massad. They like their scotch. Really.]]></description></item><item><title>The hypocrisy of Massad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_hypocrisy_of_massad.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_hypocrisy_of_massad.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fhypocrisy%5Fof%5Fmassad</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Should intellectual critics be liable for defamation? Joseph Massad thinks not--unless the criticism is of him.]]></description></item><item><title>More Massad mystery at Harvard</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_massad_mystery_at_harvard.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_massad_mystery_at_harvard.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fmassad%5Fmystery%5Fat%5Fharvard</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Martin Kramer revisits the publishing history of Joseph Massad's big book, Desiring Arabs. Above controversy? Hardly.]]></description></item><item><title>Tenure for Joseph Massad?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/tenure_for_joseph_massad.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/tenure_for_joseph_massad.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tenure%5Ffor%5Fjoseph%5Fmassad</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joseph Massad is spreading the word that he's been tenured by Columbia University. A reminder.]]></description></item><item><title>Calling all authors! Book prize</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/calling_all_authors_book_prize.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/calling_all_authors_book_prize.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=calling%5Fall%5Fauthors%5Fbook%5Fprize</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last call for submissions to the 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize. It's the biggest in the business.]]></description></item><item><title>Chas Freeman&apos;s Saudi fable</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_saudi_fable.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_saudi_fable.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chas%5Ffreemans%5Fsaudi%5Ffable</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chas Freeman went to Saudi Arabia, and his friends told him a story about how terrorists are recruited. He repeated it on Capitol Hill. It's false.]]></description></item><item><title>Chas Freeman&apos;s crystal ball</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_crystal_ball.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_crystal_ball.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chas%5Ffreemans%5Fcrystal%5Fball</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The president calls in his intelligence man. What will be? he asks. Peace is in your grasp. A scenario featuring Chas Freeman.]]></description></item><item><title>Chas Freeman and preemptive cringe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_and_preemptive_cringe.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_and_preemptive_cringe.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chas%5Ffreeman%5Fand%5Fpreemptive%5Fcringe</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chas Freeman, who will chair the National Intelligence Council, is a "contrarian." So he didn't predict 9/11. But he's warned against other attacks. What happenend? Two examples.]]></description></item><item><title>Chas Freeman and 9/11</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_911_september_11.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_911_september_11.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chas%5Ffreeman%5F911%5Fseptember%5F11</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chas Freeman is going to direct the National Intelligence Council. How does he explain 9/11? Brace yourself.]]></description></item><item><title>Southwest Asia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sandbox.blog-city.com/southwest_asia.htm</guid><link>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/southwest_asia.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://sandbox.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=southwest%5Fasia</comments><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dennis Ross is appointed "Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia." Where is "Southwest Asia" anyway?]]></description></item></channel></rss>