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Matthew Duss

Matthew Duss is a foreign policy analyst and a contributing writer for the Prospect. You can follow him on Twitter @mattduss.

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LIGHTNING ROUND.

Matthew DussDec 11, 2007
  • With the last week's NIE revelations undercutting the profitability of Rudy Giuliani's promising to be mean to Iran, he has apparently decided that being mean to illegal immigrants is the next best thing. The formerly pro-immigrant Giuliani says that if he thought the INS could have deported all of the city's illegal immigrants "I would have turned all the people over. It would have helped."

SO NOW HE'S SITTIN' HOME, INVESTIGATIN' HIMSELF!

Matthew DussDec 11, 2007

Following on Ezra's post about James Kirchick's latest bout of self-parody, I think Daniel Levy's scholarly work and his commitment to achieving a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians speaks for itself, and doesn't need to be defended from the likes of Kirchick.

THE ISLAMIST ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.

Matthew DussDec 10, 2007

Over at Middle East Progress, Rafi Dajani and Ghaith Al-Omari state what should be obvious in regard to a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal: While it may be possible to reach one without including Hamas, it will be impossible to implement.

Implementing a peace agreement...will require Palestinian reconciliation. If such an agreement meets Palestinian national aspirations and is backed by key Arab countries, namely Saudi Arabia, it is hard to imagine Hamas opposing it and risking further alienating the Palestinian people.

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ALSO, ONE OF THE LIGHTS ON THE TREE IS POINTING TOWARD MECCA.

Matthew DussDec 06, 2007

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In a clear act of Islamofascist [sic] sympathizery that seems to have slipped right by the finely tuned treason detectors of right blogistan, (time to clean out the Cheeto dust, guys!) Speaker Nancy Pelosi dons a hijab to celebrate the lighting of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree. Won't somebody please think of the children? (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Via Andrew Sullivan)

THE BONEHEAD CONTAINMENT THEORY.

Matthew DussDec 06, 2007

Eric Martin has some comments on yesterday's Robert Kagan column, in which Kagan risked the ire of Michael Ledeen by suggesting that the NIE's conclusions indicate that the U.S. should talk to Iran.

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