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A Call for More Research on the Role of State-Sponsorship in Conflicts More Generally

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Submitted by Alex (United States), Nov 5, 2007 at 00:18

After the idea that the Palestinians are the good guys and the Israelis the bad guys, the worst "Big Lie" prevailing in our political debate today is that "networks," rather than state sponsors, are responsible for the global jihadist terrorism that we currently face. This misconception seems like just another way of comforting ourselves about the effects of globalization.

I hope that these two books--which deal with state sponsorship other other smaller states--spur more research in the future as to any state sponsorship that may have been behind the 9/11 attacks, although this may be as far down the road as these two books are from 1967. I bet that someday someone will prove that almost all of the terrorist training camps of the Islamist era were not only run by state sponsors, but facilities that Western powers built in a vain effort to win third-world countries during the Cold War.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
SEND IN THE NUKES. [228 words]DAVID J FEIGEROct 17, 2012 01:53199871
A Call for More Research on the Role of State-Sponsorship in Conflicts More Generally [151 words]AlexNov 5, 2007 00:18113110
Saida 1982 [150 words]UgriSep 9, 2008 03:05113110
Daniel, please read The Fifty Year War [62 words]Tom DavisSep 21, 2007 19:10109408
Hiding [57 words]David W. LincolnSep 21, 2007 10:32109377
This stuff again? [155 words]Wayne WagnerAug 29, 2007 00:25107154
Of course this is not news! [47 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 06:56107154
The inability of the world to write about any event which exonerates Israel. [175 words]Mladen AndrijasevicAug 27, 2007 02:03107040
Dimona libel [91 words]jacob CH.Aug 28, 2007 12:38107040
Russian denial [92 words]Rebecca MouldsAug 25, 2007 17:54106974
1The lie is compounded [214 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:34106970
The FOXBAT mission doesn't imply the Soviets instigated the 1967 war [206 words]Charles MartelAug 24, 2007 11:45106902
RTWT [35 words]Brian HAug 24, 2007 17:50106902
1Martel, you do not realize [202 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:46106902
None of this implies the Soviets instigated the 1967 war to overfly Dimona [342 words]Charles MartelAug 27, 2007 11:21106902
Of course not! They overflew Dimona prior the 1967 war. [121 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 07:34106902
That is a different story, and plausible [133 words]Charles MartelSep 25, 2007 17:21106902
This was the story from its beginning, and as at last you correctly admitted: It is indeed plausible. [24 words]MosheOct 8, 2007 04:21106902
"Plausible" is a pretty weak statement, and I'm not blaming Israel for 1967 war [344 words]Charles Martel (the baffled)Nov 5, 2007 12:52106902

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