Friday, October 09, 2015

Analyzing Syrian politics

Look at this: an article about Syrian politics and the expert cited is an Israeli military official.  You will never ever see an Arab expert on Israel ever being cited on Israeli political developments. But that is new Orientalism:  an Israeli expert on Arabs is preferable to any other expert.  And an Arab expert is never preferable unless he is capable of parroting what Israeli experts on Arabs say.