Israel Thrives: Dr. Barry Rubin Diagnosed with Lung Cancer (Updated)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Dr. Barry Rubin Diagnosed with Lung Cancer (Updated)

{Cross-Posted at Geoffff's Joint, Bar and Grill and Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers.}

Anyone who reads Israel Thrives on a consistent basis knows that Professor Barry Rubin is a significant influence. For those of you who do not know, according to his Wiki page:

Rubin is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, the director of the ICD Global Research in International Affairs Center, and a senior fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center's International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. He is also Research Director of the IDC's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy; editor of the journal Turkish Studies and the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA); and a member of the editorial board of Middle East Quarterly.

He was a deputy director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He is the co-author, with his wife, of Hating America: A History and a collection of essays entitled Loathing America.

Rubin has recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and this represents a loss to those of us who care about the well-being of the state of Israel, because we care about the well-being of the Jewish people.

Dr. Rubin writes:

For 2000 years my ancestors dreamed of returning to their homeland and reestablishing their sovereignty. I have had the privilege of living that dream. How amazing is that?

We have to judge ourselves by whether we’ve lived up to our ideals and done our best. Not by the accumulation of power, wealth or fame; not for failing to achieve the impossible.

I really do not have a whole lot to say other than that Dr. Rubin remains an important influence and I very much hope that he will be writing and analyzing and discussing and arguing and kvetching for many years to come.

We need your help, Professor.

Sincerely,

Michael Lumish

Update:

He's also just recently published a commonsensical solution to Obama's Jerusalem problem:

The U.S. embassy could be moved to west Jerusalem, with the existing U.S. consulate there continuing to serve east Jerusalem and the West Bank, which means also dealing with the Palestinian Authority.

This makes considerable sense. If you read the article, he draws out some complexities and problems, but Obama needs to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state of Israel.

If he cannot do that then he is not worthy of our support... in my humble opinion.

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Mike L.August 6, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I don't know if Barry Rubin smoked, but I did for many years.

In the Fall of 2010, during a routine dentist appointment, I was told that I had what looked to be "pre-cancerous tissue" at the back of my throat.

For two weeks I pondered the joyous possibility of throat cancer before finally being declared healthy by a specialist.

It was that experience that got me to quit smoking.

Pure Abject Terror.

That's what it took.

That and Chantix.
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geoffffAugust 7, 2012 at 6:43 AM
I smoked for many years but even that probably wasn't the stupidest thing I've ever done.

I gave up smoking along with left wing politics but I don't know about fish killing. I used to do a lot of fish killing up around the Great Barrier Reef with old university mates but I have to tell you I gave it up about the same time I gave up left wing politics.

I could be persuaded though.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Monday, August 6, 2012

Dr. Barry Rubin Diagnosed with Lung Cancer (Updated)

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