<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Sandbox by Martin Kramer</title><rights>Copyright 2009 sandbox.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle>Analysis of the Middle East by Martin Kramer.</subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-20T04:00:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190769</id><title>Coming to Columbia</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/coming_to_columbia.htm"><![CDATA[What I will (and won't) be discussing at Columbia on Monday evening.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/coming_to_columbia.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T19:17:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T19:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-10-12:links.412186092</id><title>Shalem College takes off</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/shalem_college_takes_off.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/shalem_college_takes_off.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-10-12T13:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-12T13:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-09-21:links.412183470</id><title>More from Martin Kramer</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_from_martin_kramer.htm"><![CDATA[Want more blogging from Martin Kramer? Here's how to find it.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_from_martin_kramer.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-09-21T11:17:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-21T11:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-08-21:links.412180024</id><title>Some day, Yale&apos;s prince will come</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/some_day_yales_prince_will_come.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/some_day_yales_prince_will_come.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-08-21T23:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-21T23:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-08-17:links.412179673</id><title>Fear-mongering at Yale</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/fear_mongering_at_yale.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/fear_mongering_at_yale.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-08-17T16:22:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-17T16:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-06-22:links.412174913</id><title>Kissed to death by America</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kissed_to_death_by_america.htm"><![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?]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/kissed_to_death_by_america.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-06-22T18:42:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-22T18:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-06-20:links.412174742</id><title>Obama&apos;s Middle East map in shreds</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obamas_middle_east_map_in_shreds.htm"><![CDATA[Obama's mental map of the Middle East has been Palestine-centric. Now it's in shreds.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obamas_middle_east_map_in_shreds.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-06-20T22:27:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-20T22:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-06-17:links.412174464</id><title>Iranian turmoil</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/iranian_turmoil.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/iranian_turmoil.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-06-17T17:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-17T17:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-06-13:links.412174103</id><title>Sweeping Khalidi under Obama&apos;s rug</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/sweeping_khalidi_under_obamas_rug.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/sweeping_khalidi_under_obamas_rug.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-06-13T23:22:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-13T23:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-06-05:links.412173311</id><title>Obama and the Muslims</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obama_and_the_muslims.htm"><![CDATA[Martin Kramer assesses President Obama's Cairo speech to the world's Muslims. Napoleonic hubris mixed with a Third Worldist sensibility.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/obama_and_the_muslims.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-06-05T14:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-05T14:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-05-02:links.412167947</id><title>He walks with the Islamists, talks with the Islamists</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/he_walks_with_the_islamists_talks_to_the_islamists.htm"><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke, engager of extremists, is profiled in today's New York Times. I debated him in 2005. Here are the proceedings.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/he_walks_with_the_islamists_talks_to_the_islamists.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-05-02T17:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-02T17:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-26:links.412166627</id><title>An extreme case at Columbia</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/an_extreme_case_at_columbia.htm"><![CDATA[Who has the right to confer tenure at Columbia--and on Joseph Massad? The statutes say one thing. Radical faculty think another.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/an_extreme_case_at_columbia.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-26T11:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-26T11:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-23:links.412166088</id><title>Columbia set to crash</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_set_to_crash.htm"><![CDATA[Joseph Massad's tenure case is going to Columbia's trustees. The reputation of a university hangs in the balance.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/columbia_set_to_crash.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-23T22:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-23T22:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-19:links.412165074</id><title>Policy and the academy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/policy_and_the_academy.htm"><![CDATA[The political scientists wait by the phone for Obama's call... and wait... and wait. Some context.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/policy_and_the_academy.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-19T21:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-19T21:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-15:links.412164352</id><title>Too late to stop Massad?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/too_late_to_stop_massad.htm"><![CDATA[Is Joseph Massad's tenure at Columbia a done deal? Apparently not. Martin Kramer explains why.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/too_late_to_stop_massad.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-15T22:37:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-15T22:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-14:links.412163981</id><title>Massad&apos;s alcohol analysis</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/massads_alcohol_analysis.htm"><![CDATA[Why do Palestinian liberals fear Hamas? It's simple, says Joseph Massad. They like their scotch. Really.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/massads_alcohol_analysis.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-14T14:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-14T14:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-13:links.412163828</id><title>The hypocrisy of Massad</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_hypocrisy_of_massad.htm"><![CDATA[Should intellectual critics be liable for defamation? Joseph Massad thinks not--unless the criticism is of him.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/the_hypocrisy_of_massad.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-13T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-13T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-12:links.412163719</id><title>More Massad mystery at Harvard</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_massad_mystery_at_harvard.htm"><![CDATA[Martin Kramer revisits the publishing history of Joseph Massad's big book, Desiring Arabs. Above controversy? Hardly.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/more_massad_mystery_at_harvard.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-12T20:31:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-12T20:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-04-10:links.412163260</id><title>Tenure for Joseph Massad?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/tenure_for_joseph_massad.htm"><![CDATA[Joseph Massad is spreading the word that he's been tenured by Columbia University. A reminder.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/tenure_for_joseph_massad.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-04-10T23:30:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-10T23:30:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-24:links.412159951</id><title>Calling all authors! Book prize</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/calling_all_authors_book_prize.htm"><![CDATA[Last call for submissions to the 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize. It's the biggest in the business.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/calling_all_authors_book_prize.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-24T15:38:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-24T15:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-10:links.412157838</id><title>Chas Freeman&apos;s Saudi fable</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_saudi_fable.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_saudi_fable.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-10T21:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-10T21:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-10:links.412157790</id><title>Chas Freeman&apos;s crystal ball</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_crystal_ball.htm"><![CDATA[The president calls in his intelligence man. What will be? he asks. Peace is in your grasp. A scenario featuring Chas Freeman.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freemans_crystal_ball.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-10T20:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-10T20:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-09:links.412157618</id><title>Chas Freeman and preemptive cringe</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_and_preemptive_cringe.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_and_preemptive_cringe.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-09T20:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-09T20:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-07:links.412157416</id><title>Chas Freeman and 9/11</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_911_september_11.htm"><![CDATA[Chas Freeman is going to direct the National Intelligence Council. How does he explain 9/11? Brace yourself.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/chas_freeman_911_september_11.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-07T20:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-07T20:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:sandbox.blog-city.com,2009-03-03:links.412156660</id><title>Southwest Asia</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/southwest_asia.htm"><![CDATA[Dennis Ross is appointed "Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia." Where is "Southwest Asia" anyway?]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.blog-city.com/southwest_asia.htm"/><dc:creator>Martin Kramer</dc:creator><author><name>Martin Kramer</name></author><updated>2009-03-03T15:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-03T15:19:00Z</published></entry></feed>