R.I.P Dr. Barry Rubin Barry was an American-Israeli, a Middle East scholar, author, blogger, and founder of a think tank. Barry would spend ten minutes setting up a complex situation, then say—but that’s not the problem at all; then another ten minutes presumably explaining what the real problem was—but then he would say: Anyone who believes that does not know x,y, and z—and then, if you were very patient, and remained on your listening toes, you might get to hear him finally give his spin on the matter about 30-40 minutes into his speech. I remember appearing with him in 2003 as part of the Jewish Book Fair circuit in Florida when my book “The New Anti-Semitism” was out and his biography of Arafat was out—he was dressed in a terribly British suit with his pocket handkerchief folded just so. He reminded me that once, he was my student. I had no memory of his sojourn at my branch of City University. And once, we had dinner after he delivered a lecture to potential funders and we dined rather late at a nearby Italian kosher restaurant and he ended up sleeping over in my downstairs writing studio—although I doubt he slept. When I left him, he was working on his computer and when my assistant came in the next morning—there he was, still at it. Barry: I hope you are now at play in the fields of the Lord. But, I suspect you have your computer with you....
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:37:39 +0000
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