Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown and New York Universities. During the Vietnam War he served as a US Army infantryman. A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture. ... Georgetown University Georgetown University is a major research university in the United States. ... The University of New York was a fictional university in New York City from the television series Felicity, that aired from 1998 to 2002. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a 1957 to 1975 conflict primarily between the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) and anti-communist Republic of Vietnam (RVN) that directly involved an array of pro-North and pro-South forces, most notably the CommunistNational Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

He now works in Canada as contributing editor to the Toronto Sun, writing mainly on Middle East, South Asia, and Islamic affairs. He also appears frequently on Canadian television broadcasts – he was a regular guest on TVOntario's show Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity whose spot is now served by Patrick Martin. Margolis is also owner of Canadian alternative medicine manufacturer, Jamieson Laboratories which exports worldwide. Front page of the Toronto Sun, April 14, 2005. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Composite satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia. ... Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... TVOntario (TVO) is an educational public television station in the Canadian province of Ontario. ... Studio 2 is a daily (weeknights) current-events newsmagazine on Ontarios TVOntario. ... Diplomatic Immunity is a weekly political analysis and debate television show on TV Ontario. ...

Margolis is affiliated with several organizations including International Institute of Strategic Studies in London and the Institute of Regional Studies based in Islamabad, Pakistan. St. ... Faisal Mosque, located in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, was built in 1986. ...

Political views

Margolis's writings display sympathy for Muslims - noticeable in his coverage of issues of Palestine and Kashmir - and against Russians and other Orthodox Christian Slavs - noticeable in his fervent support for the Kosovo War, and his coverage of the conflict in Chechnya. These sympathies can be attributed to his close relationships with the Afghan mujahideen and their Pakistani military and intelligence handlers during the Soviet-Afghan war, and also to his Albanian-born mother Nexhmie Zaimi, who was one of the first American female foreign correspondents to cover the Middle East and was one of the few Western journalists in the 1950s to focus on the issue of Palestinian refugees. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... The Palestinians are a mainly Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... ... Slav, Slavic or Slavonic can refer to: Slavic peoples Slavic languages Slavic mythology Church Slavonic language Old Church Slavonic language Slavonian can also refer to Slavonia, a region in eastern Croatia. ... The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ... The Chechen Republic (Chechen: Нохчийн Республика/Noxçiyn [Nokhchiyn] Respublika, Russian: Чеченская Республика), informal Chechnya (Chechen: Нохчичьо/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: Чечня), Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. ... Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc. ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Palestinians are a mainly Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine. ...

Margolis identifies his politics as "Eisenhower Republican". Though his domestic political persuasion is moderately conservative – he is a staunch anti-communist and a supporter of capitalism – Margolis's pro-Muslim views are sharply at odds with the neoconservatives. He is therefore considered by some to be a paleoconservative, but disagrees with the isolationism of true paleoconservatives. Order: 34th President Vice President: Richard Nixon Term of office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 Preceded by: Harry S. Truman Succeeded by: John F. Kennedy Date of birth: October 14, 1890 Place of birth: Denison, Texas Date of death: March 28, 1969 Place of death: Washington, D.C. First... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ... Capitalism has been defined in various ways (see Capitalism in Wikiquote). ... Neoconservatism is a somewhat controversial term referring to the political goals and ideology of the new conservatives (ultraconservative) in the United States. ... The term paleoconservative (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) refers to an American branch of conservative Old Right thought that is frequently at odds with the current of conservative thought as espoused by the Republican Party elite. ... Isolationism is a diplomatic policy whereby a nation seeks to avoid alliances with other nations. ...

Publications

• War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet (ISBN 0415930626)

External links

• Eric Margolis home page
• Eric Margolis: Apologist for Terror - Anti-Margolis article at the neoconservative FrontPageMag.com
• Did Russia Win D-Day? - commentary on one of Margolis's articles at North Star Compass, a Canadian neo-Stalinist website