Afghanistan: As Bad as Its Reputation? (by Michael Rubin)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  *****   Afghanistan: As Bad as Its Reputation?
>>
>>  By Michael Rubin, visiting fellow
>>  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
>>
>>  Middle East Quarterly 7, no. 3 (September 2000)
>
>Not that it necessarily invalidates the argument, but there's a motive
>behind this article. The Washington Institute is a pro-Israel think tank set
>up as a sort of scholarly spin-off of AIPAC, the Israel lobbying group. At
>the time this piece was written, the Israelis were trying to polish the
>Taliban's human-rights image - they were promoting the oil pipeline accross
>Afghanistan as an alternative to the one that would go through Iran, their
>main regional rival. Also, Iran was supporting the Northern Alliance so, to
>forestall Iranian influence in Central Asia, Israel was rooting for the
>Taliban.
>
>Seth

Is Israel still rooting for the Taliban?
-- 
Yoshie

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