From the yearly archives:

2007

Linkage Between Gaza & Israel “Stopping the Kassams”

December 21, 2007

In his New York Sun article, Hillel Halkin talks of five uncertain options of response to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad missile barrages against Israel. But there is a pragmatic and eminently feasible sixth option. Option 6: There has been and there desperately needs to be linked consequentiality – a clear response formula – this [...]

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The World’s Most Successful Con Game

December 21, 2007

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. That selective claim now underpins world politics. It seems that since the war of 1967, with its stunning victory against all odds, Israel finally lost its “underdog” identity. The guilt-ridden post-Holocaust populations in Europe were now not any more coerced into feeling sorry for their decimated Jews. [...]

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“Limits of Diplomacy – The Current Dilemma”

December 13, 2007

According to many of our presidential candidates, there are no limits to diplomacy. History however, as well as Psychology 101 proves otherwise: a) Neville Chamberlain’s particular diplomacy in World War II gave Hitler an extra few years’ head start in building his genocidal war machine. Emboldened by appeasement politics, Hitler overran Czechoslovakia and Poland. Perhaps [...]

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The Election – A Synergistic Primary

December 4, 2007

Let’s do a deal, in advance of the primaries: Hilary will squeeze out Obama; power, money and savvy manipulation being the Clintons’ unsurpassed epitaph, and to her ultimately ego-driven regret, she may forego offering Obama the vice presidency. In that event, Giuliani should be planning to offer Obama reconciliation across the aisle, a nonpartisan vice [...]

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“The Ultimate Enemy – Jews Against Jews” – A Post-Annapolis Perspective

November 29, 2007

Netta Kohn Dror-Shav authored a still very relevant 1998 policy paper for the Ariel Center for Policy Research titled “The Ultimate Enemy — Jews Against Jews.” In it, she explores several defense mechanisms through which Jews drift toward their enemies. Denial, she wrote, “leads to avoidance of recognizing the actual inherent dangers, and causes a [...]

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Cents & Sensitivity – Harvey Morris’ review of J. Mearsheimer and S. Walt’s “The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy” Financial Times

November 1, 2007

The implied presumption that political influence by Jews is unfair, unpatriotic and even dangerous thoroughly permeates both the book and the sympathetic review. It’s as though the multitudinous lobbyists and national interests everywhere represented in Washington are normal and expected, reasonable and balancing – as long as they do not peddle the nefarious and deceptive [...]

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Ann Coulter – Genius or Bigot?

October 19, 2007

So Ann Coulter says Jews would be better off as more refined Christians. So what? Whether that’s comedic hyperbole, provocative marketing or innate belief is beside the point. A fair proportion of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, yes even secularists, would prefer Jews to be more like they themselves. “So what?” I say to all of them, [...]

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America’s Naive Courage – An Iraq Post Petraeus Primer

September 20, 2007

America is courageous yet irrevocably naïve. Old Europe is cowardly, understanding yet fearing evil. The Arab world is, ironically, an erratic and changing amalgam of all the above. Their foot soldiers will blindly sacrifice themselves for Jihad whilst their leaders and handlers unerringly never lead from the front, these masters of propaganda, savoring their privileged [...]

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Ruth R. Wisse’s “Jews and Power” LA Times Article Reviewed by Ruth Andrew Ellenson

August 30, 2007

The review covers much interesting, valid and informative territory, collapsing into the reviewer’s personal prejudices only towards the end: “Yet to witness what is done in Gaza in the name of security is to doubt the morality of such a stance.” Is not the author aware that Israel unilaterally removed itself at great emotional cost, [...]

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Reincarnation Banned?

August 24, 2007

According to Newsweek (August 20-27, 2007 issue), “In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.” Al Queda too issues regular pronouncements on the limits and directions of its adherent’s thoughts and behavior in this current life as well as, more importantly, on [...]

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