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The Balkan Mess Has Just Gotten Messier: Information Versus Disinformation

August 6, 2008 by Phyllis Chesler  
Filed under Op-Ed

Who can understand Balkan history-that cursed region whose fiery nationalisms led to World War One? Not I. East Europeans remember how especially brutal Muslim Nazi- and Arab-empowered soldiers were during World War Two. Yes, there once were some pockets of European-style assimilation and sophistication among Caucasus-based Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the region. Has anyone read the incomparably charming and popular novel, Ali and Nino: A Love Story written by the very Jewish Lev Nuissimbaum whose pen name was Khurbain Said? The romance captured everyone’s longing for operatic harmony between Christians and Muslims. (For the Jews, it was always more complicated). Tom Reiss has written a must-read biography of Nuissembaum titled The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life.

But fiction and exceptions aside, ethnic and religious feuds have simmered and boiled over between the Christians of different nationalities in the Caucasus and between Christians and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

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  1. Colonel Robert Neville on August 6th, 2008 7:29 pm

    Dear Phyllis, yes, it’s hard to slog through and get a picture of it. Though it seems clear that much happened across all…

    But the measure, the players and the true motives…often rise and fall in the murk.

    A coincidence as I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s the clear and true picture of this. I don’t want to believe a mere accepted or common belief and be had once again. I don’t mind facing the truth however terrible. Yep, I’ll follow up all the links from all commenters.

    Thanks for this. Colonel Neville.

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