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Islam and antisemitism

A Freeze of Jewish Construction in Judea and Samaria

February 2, 2010
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Obama and the Europeans demand a freeze on Jewish construction in the West Bank, in Judea and Samaria. Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) and the Arab League require such a freeze to even consider further negotiations with Israel. By all means, let’s support a freeze – a comprehensive, simultaneous freeze on all sides. Let us [...]

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The Value of Understanding

March 23, 2009

Now that appeasement is back in vogue, the post-9/11 notion that we must “understand” the terrorists – their unique motivations, their sad backgrounds – has re-emerged among the talking heads and diplomatic elites. The presumption is that such understanding will grant us insight and empathy, confirming our inherent similarities and bringing us reconciliation, compromise and [...]

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The Predictable Palestinian Propaganda Ploy

January 19, 2009

The successful lies of Dr. Hanan Ashwari epitomize the (most recent) Palestinian victory in the Gaza propaganda sweepstakes. Fox News uses her regularly to provide the Palestinian side of “fair and balanced.” This longtime PLO spokeswoman, of course, is anything but. She harangues the audience with emotional and outrageous untruths, with nary a criticism. The [...]

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Fortuitous?

January 15, 2009

Is it possible there is a reason why Israel put-off hitting back at Hamas—and their firing of 5,000 rockets and mortars into southern Israel—until recently? Certainly, Israel’s ongoing and unambiguous destruction of the Hamas threat has put Hezbollah rocketeers to the north, still crowing about the inconclusive 2006 Lebanon War, on notice. If they step [...]

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Appeasement Politics – Again

July 18, 2008

Negotiating with terrorists and with authoritarian regimes is often in the news these days. Opinions fly fast and wide about the relative merits of sitting down with this or that unsavory character. Yet we have only to glance at the latest news to receive a litany of reality checks. Robert Mugabe came to power using [...]

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Militants?

March 7, 2008

8 Killed…by Palestinian MILITANT (pg 1, LA Times, Mar. 7, 08) Militants? Those are marchers in San Francisco shouting anti-Bush slogans Those are protestors scuffling with police at the G8 Summits in Seattle and Rome. Those are volunteers of The Minutemen patrolling our southern borders. However they are certainly not the terrorist who chose a [...]

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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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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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Prognosis for America

October 5, 2001

Some Suggestions and Predictions: Things will seem to change even as they stay the same Aviation: All pilots must carry firearms and be trained in their appropriate use. All planes must carry armed and well trained plain–clothed marshals. All planes can be easily fitted with double separated bullet proof and bomb resistant doors and walls [...]

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