a. Sadat decided to make peace with Israel to avoid Egypt becoming a Russian colony;
b. Europe always acts, as J Kelley said: "to avoid the preemptive cringe";
c. the Turkey situation is disturbing and alraming as it threatens the Kemalist regime concept;
d. the Arabs must be considered through two elemtns - their sense of history awareness and their sense of community;
e. the Arabs' problem with modernity, success, freedoms, etc. are deep; look at Aden vs. Singapore, both British-ruled and where is one and where is the other? same for India and Pakistan. why the Arabs in the situation they are?
Here are some pics:
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And then I went over the the Jerusalem Conference. Attended several good panels. This year I encountered the need to choose between sessions at times. Or jump from one to the other.
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