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Deciphering October 7

By David McCalmont

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Nov 17, 2023
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The Israeli Flag in Jerusalem. Photo by Neal E. Johnson on Unsplash.

Deciphering October 7

The late intellectual mouthpiece for Palestinian Arab anti-Orientalism, Edward Said, defended Yasser Arafat – who was then still a notorious terrorist, not yet a corrupt kleptocrat – by saying that his sensational violence at least kept the Palestinian Arab cause f…

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I am a retired businessman who has taken up writing and punditry since 2016 on subjects my mother told me shouldn't be spoken about in polite society: Religion, politics & culture.
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