Schizoid nation on December 1, 2008There are two ways to describe Pakistan for the geographically illiterate: we are either the country on the left of India. Or else, we are the country to the right of Afghanistan.Unfortunately for us, both descriptions are equally true. We are a country which straddles a geographic and social fault line. On one side of […]
The Israeli Obama on December 1, 2008Where will the Israeli Obama come from?The Israeli equivalent of the black community in the United States is the Oriental Jewish community, the Jews who have come to Israel from Arab and other Islamic countries. They do not belong to another people, like the Arab citizens of Israel, they belong to the majority population. They […]