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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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Palestinians – Are they the Latter Day ‘Wandering Jews’?

January 25, 2010
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According to fascinating new research, scientists believe the genetic profile of many Palestinians in the West Bank is actually closer to that of Ashkenazi (i.e. European) Jews than to the general Arab populations in the Middle East. If accurate, this discovery adds yet more (ironic) weight to the idea that the stateless, much maligned Palestinian [...]

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Solving the “Palestinian Problem”

January 28, 2009

Little-noticed among those decrying Israel’s ‘imprisonment’ of Gaza, the Egyptians — who man the southern border of the strip — are just-as-willing wardens, having (mostly) sealed off the Gaza-Egyptian border to their Arabs brothers and sisters in distress. In a recent and creative article, Daniel Pipes advocates a more hands-on Egyptian approach: reincorporating the territory [...]

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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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Regeneration of the Biblical Dead Sea

October 6, 2008

Amid the constant turmoil and angst boiling over in Israel and the West Bank, at the center of the Middle East, lies the Dead Sea. [3] This salt-laden desert sea is rapidly diminishing in size as its source, the Jordan River, dries up: the Syrians (via the Yarmuk, a source for the Jordan), Israelis and [...]

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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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Honor Killings – Do We Know?

February 26, 2008

What are these countries who are these people that would stone the abused and grant freedom to the rapist What is this religion who are its protagonists that would hang the victim and venerate the victimizer

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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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The Kidnapping of Corporal Shalit

July 3, 2006

The kidnapping of corporal Shalit may not be ambiguous to the author, Mr. Halkin, or the majority of Israel’s citizens. However, the Israel/ Palestinian conflict remains opaque for most of the western world, media included. And central to this confusion is the endless mantra everywhere repeated, that the violence in the Middle East is a [...]

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Dangerous Sensibilities: An American Strength Loses Clarity

October 19, 2001

It used to be that American support of the oppressed, the underdog, the victim, the poor and the desperate was our most gracious quality, an eminently civilized refinement to millennia of persecution and prejudice. It was a pillar of American freedom and what set us apart from the rest of the world who, almost without [...]

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