tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post5464513482709192586..comments2023-05-31T14:16:36.022+03:00Comments on Otto's Random Thoughts: My Publication Record While at the American University of Central AsiaJ. Otto Pohlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-56423271749010067532010-05-18T20:53:19.020+03:002010-05-18T20:53:19.020+03:00Thanks anyway. The best of luck with a new job.Thanks anyway. The best of luck with a new job.daquailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247287086909682668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-37694924433130237572010-05-18T07:59:23.467+03:002010-05-18T07:59:23.467+03:00daquail:
Thank you very much for your kind note a...daquail:<br /><br />Thank you very much for your kind note and well thought out question. Unfortunately, as is apparent from recent blog posts here, I am currently occupied with trying to get a new job. Hence I do not have the time now to give your question the proper response it deserves. I will say that I did discuss possible solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli confilict in my Politics of the Middle East class. But, to be absolutely honest given the current realities I do not think there will be any near term solution.J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-82309136074334905872010-05-17T23:38:09.641+03:002010-05-17T23:38:09.641+03:00Your blog came up in a search for documents on the...Your blog came up in a search for documents on the Palestinian exodus of ‘48, and your tone, as well as your location, encouraged me to read your back entries. I followed with sympathy and growing respect your progress, PhD, pride in publication and dismay at no job offers, Arizona, serenity, posthole digging, petulance at academia’s preference for TA experience over scholarship,curricular musings, then finally AUCA and real curricula. Your discovered success as a teacher,your wholehearted immersion in work, your outrage at plagiarism, were all, I thought, and think,evidence of a thoroughgoing honesty of intellect and purpose. In your blog I read as sincere moral statements what others might read as antisemitism. Clearly your expertise in the forced political displacement of peoples informs your views on the Israelis and Palestinians. I have a lifetime of loyalty to Israel and relief in its existence, yet I wonder now how long its posture vis a vis the Arab world can be maintained. Please believe therefore that the following is a genuine question: what would you have the Israelis do now, and what do you believe the consequences would be?daquailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247287086909682668noreply@blogger.com