It’s hard to believe this bozo is actually a professor at UC Irvine, but he is. What fascinates me about fellows like this is how little attention they pay to the actual news from the area of their supposed expertise. That there have been other recent assassinations in Lebanon similar to Gemayel’s (Rafik Hariri – maybe he thinks Israel is behind that one too) and that Syria has been implicated (by the UN!) means nothing to them (unless it fits their propaganda purposes).
What is the cost of an education at UC Irvine? Oh, never mind.
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1. dclydew:Well, perhaps the whole post of Levines wasn’t up at the time, but I noted that beyond the paragraphs first quoted, Levine does say:
There is some logic to this view, given Syria’s likely involvement in the assassination in February 2005 of Prime Minister Rafiq Harriri.
Gemayal’s is the fifth assassination since Harriri’s; most every victim was critical of the Syrians, and to a lesser extent Hezbollah.
And later:
But even if we grant that Syria was behind Harriri’s assassination (and as I explained in a posting at the time, there is very good evidence to support this assessment) it is hard to see what Syria or Hezbollah gain from Gemayel’s killing.
I think the guy is probably a bozo, but the chosen paragraphs do seem more inflammatory when taken out of the full post.
Nov 27, 2006 - 12:04 pm 2. chuck:I think the guy is probably a bozo…
That’s *Dr.* Bozo, thank you.
Nov 27, 2006 - 2:02 pm 3. David Thomson:“He says he’s Jewish. If Professor Levine – excuse me, LeVine (he actually pronounces it “Leh-Vee-Neigh”) – isn’t a self-hating Jew, I don’t know WHO is.”
I am not Jewish—and I take for granted that at least half the time I am more pro-Israel than any Jew I might meet in the outside world. Something is clearly wrong. It is my theory that leftist ideology inheretly encourages Jewish self hatred. We should never forget how much Karl Marx despised his roots.
Nov 27, 2006 - 2:49 pm 4. Adrianne Truett:OT: what’s gone wrong with your little hat icon at the beginning of each post? Yesterday it was a tiny CBSNews logo, and today it’s a tiny sitemeter logo — or is that just me?
Nov 27, 2006 - 8:23 pm 5. ElMondo:“…it is hard to see what Syria or Hezbollah gain from Gemayel’s killing.”
Didn’t Michael Totten’s blog say something about this, that if enough members of the Cabinet were assasinated, the Cabinet won’t have enough memnbers to make their quorum and would dissolve? Therefore toppling the Lebanese government? I’ll go back through his blog and try to find that info.
Michael, if you happen to be here reading this and I’ve mis-summarized things, my apologies. I’ll get the link and the correct info soon.
Nov 28, 2006 - 6:41 am 6. ElMondo:Ah… links:
The specific blog post I was referring to in my previous comment: “Another Assassination in Beirut – Continuously Updated”
Foreign Policy.com link coming out and stating the opinion that Hezbollah or Syria’s motivation is to prevent quorum.
Post from Totten’s blog, but by a guest blogger, not Michael himself but a guest blogger (Abu Kais), giving more detail about the parts of Lebanese constitution that apply to the composition of the Cabinet, and some analysis of Hezbollah’s activities in “hijacking an entire community and pitting it against the (Lebanese) state’s legitimate authority”
And last: Sort of a chuckler post about Syria and finding a “fall guy” for the assasination of Gemayal: “Keystone Terrorists”. Money quote:
“At least Damascus has enough sense to avoid blaming the Israelis for murdering a leader of the most historically pro-Israel political party in Lebanon.”
… although that post was written back on the 22nd… things might have changed since then, and Damascus may well be blaming Israel by now.
Nov 28, 2006 - 6:58 am 7. Concerned UCI Student:Thank you for the link to my blog post!
To answer your question, here are UCI’s tuition and basic fees for the 2006-2007 school year, including health insurance:
~$7,500 for resident undergraduate students
~$26,200 for non-resident undergraduate students
~$9,700 for resident graduate students
~$24,600 for non-resident graduate students
(source: http://www.reg.uci.edu/registrar/soc/fees/fees06-07.pdf)
- Concerned UCI Student
Nov 28, 2006 - 5:36 pm 8. Richard Aubrey:I don’t follow the puzzlement Mr. Simon’s first sentence.
What about being delusional, dishonest, and ignorant disqualifies one from the professoriate?
Nov 29, 2006 - 11:26 am