Comments on: The studiously avoided refugees http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/09/7766 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/09/7766/comment-page-1#comment-36725 Alex Bensky Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:47:57 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7766#comment-36725 Soccerdad, you and Meryl doubtless thank your lucky stars that you have readers like me who can enlighten you on proper analytical methods. At some point, as I have been promising for a while, I will through this blog reveal to the world the Bensky Bifurcated System of Middle Eastern Political Analysis, the unwritten but universally employed procedure for media and diplomats to analyze the situation. However, I will clear up your apparent confusion by briefly outlining one point of that system: When it comes to Israel, history began this morning. That's why attempts to bring up Jewish refugees from Arab countries is not only irrelevant but divisive. On an entirely unrelated matter, I read a book recently on the Russo-Finnish War. The Finns lost a war launched against them by unprovoked aggression, as a result of which the Soviet Union took several thousand square miles of land and expelled 400,000 Finns, who lost all their property. So I don't quite condone Finnish airliner hijackings, murder of diplomats, suicide bombings in Moscow, and attacks on Russian Orthodox churches across the world, but hey, when people are frustrated and hopeless, what can you expect? Soccerdad, you and Meryl doubtless thank your lucky stars that you have readers like me who can enlighten you on proper analytical methods. At some point, as I have been promising for a while, I will through this blog reveal to the world the Bensky Bifurcated System of Middle Eastern Political Analysis, the unwritten but universally employed procedure for media and diplomats to analyze the situation. However, I will clear up your apparent confusion by briefly outlining one point of that system:

When it comes to Israel, history began this morning. That’s why attempts to bring up Jewish refugees from Arab countries is not only irrelevant but divisive.

On an entirely unrelated matter, I read a book recently on the Russo-Finnish War. The Finns lost a war launched against them by unprovoked aggression, as a result of which the Soviet Union took several thousand square miles of land and expelled 400,000 Finns, who lost all their property. So I don’t quite condone Finnish airliner hijackings, murder of diplomats, suicide bombings in Moscow, and attacks on Russian Orthodox churches across the world, but hey, when people are frustrated and hopeless, what can you expect?

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