Archive for the 'Roger Cohen' Category

Roger Cohen And Wishful Thinking, Part 974

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Eamonn McDonagh
on February 13, 2010
in Afghanistan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel and Roger Cohen
. 5 Comments

As readers of this blog  know, Roger Cohen is not a wise man. His latest column in the New York Times gives further evidence of this.

Domestic U.S. politics constrain innovative thought - even open debate - on the process without end that is the peace search.

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The Best Francophilic Zionism in the Blogosphere

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Eamonn McDonagh
on April 20, 2009
in Germany, Holocaust, Israel and Roger Cohen
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Just a line to guide readers towards Phoebe Maltz’s excellent blog and, more particularly, to this excellent post in which she savages the latest parcel of pomposity emitted by a columnist well known to regulars at this bar.

Iran: Dreams of an Easy Way

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Eamonn McDonagh
on April 9, 2009
in Iran, Israel and Roger Cohen
. 7 Comments

A well-known newspaper columnist lauds the Iranian regime in his latest offering and criticizes Israel for, as he puts it, “crying wolf” with regard that regime’s ambition to acquire nuclear weapons.

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Erdoğan, Truth and Power

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Eamonn McDonagh
on April 7, 2009
in Israel, Roger Cohen, Turkey and media
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You are an experienced journalist and you have a column in a major newspaper. You interview a powerful man who talks of his fine moral instincts and how the pain suffered by others in foreign countries affects him. How do you react?

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