from Commentary Magazine online by Evelyn Gordon, 3/7/12, Why Do Arabs and Muslims Keep Trying to Move to the “Apartheid State”? Excerpts: During the first 11 months of last year alone, for instance, 13,851 illegal migrants entered Israel from Sinai; the
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Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit was finally released in exchange for 1027 Palestinian terrorists and captured cold blooded murderers. One should be reminded that Schalit was kidnapped on Israeli soil. Many have weighed in on whether the exchange was worth the
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Rick Richman writes in Commentary, What Happened Before Nothing Happened?- 10/2/ 11 He responds to a common refrain that the Palestinians are frustrated from a lack of progress: (1) In 2000, the Palestinians were offered a state by Israel, and
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From Benjamin Netanyanu’s speech at the UN on 9/23/11 per the Weekly Standard. These people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will work out. You know, there’s only one problem with that theory. We’ve tried it
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In September of 2007 the Israelis destroyed the Al Kibar nuclear plant in Syria that was under construction. It got a little press at the time, but many people have dashed this action from their memory. Clifford May writes about
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From Benjamin Netanyanu’s speech at the UN on 9/23/11 per the Weekly Standard. Ladies and gentlemen, in Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, innovators, apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our
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Jeff Jacoby writes A Palestinian state? Don’t count on it for the Boston Globe, 9/21/11. Excerpts: …the Arabs of Palestine have consistently said no when presented with the chance to build a state of their own. They said no in
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The special election in New York to replace Twitter pervert Anthony Weiner is proving interesting. It is not surprising that in a heavily Democratic district in New York that the Jewish vote would come to play. It may be surprising
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Bruce Thornton writes Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy, May 24, 2011, as posted at Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. Excerpt: Likewise, just as the Romans named the land after a people that no longer existed, so too
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During the turmoil that gave birth to the state of Israel in 1947 and 1948 over 700,000 Jews were ejected from the Arab states from Libya to Iraq. Jews had lived in those countries for thousands of years. All of
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I confess that I do not count myself among the Thomas Friedman sycophants. I have read some of his books and I just find him trying so hard to be “intellectually balanced” that he often ignores the obvious and the
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In the course of the Middle East controversy there are a few points that while obvious seem worthy of repeating. There is only one Jewish state in the world. One. It is surrounded by dozens of Islamic states where freedom
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Written by Alan Dershowitz post 911, Why Terrorism Works, gives a simple answer: because we reward it. Terrorism has earned the Palestinians recognition and legitimization. Our response to terrorism has centered on fallacies that perpetuate the problem. We have believed
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It is hard to tell how the uprisings in the Arab world will turn out, but it is interesting to note that the demonstrators are angry at their own government and not blaming the state of Israel for their problems.
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Dan Gordis writes in The Jerusalem Post a different insight into the ground zero mosque. In The Ground Zero mosque – what US could learn from Israel Gordis writes that the issue of religious tolerance must not blind us to
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We mortals pride ourselves as rational beings, but we act emotionally. We get attached to previous positions, and will discount or filter evidence rather than change our minds. We read the news for confirmation rather than information. We are so
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An airline was hijacked to Uganda by terrorists with 95 Jewish hostages on June 27th, 1976. On July 4th three planes landed in Israel with most of the hostages rescued after one of the most audacious and successful raids in
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Anti-Semitism continues to prove to be the most adaptive hatred as well as the oldest. Its most recent incarnations have drifted more to the left. This is a relatively recent development, spurred by the closer affection the Christian evangelical community
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In Israel and Its Liberal Friends WSJ columnist Bret Stephens asks what if the standards of friendship Israel’s ‘friends’ claim is the source of their criticism was applied to the Palestinians as well. an excerpt Finally there’s the fact that
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Progress in Palestine
Rick Richman writes in Commentary, What Happened Before Nothing Happened?- 10/2/ 11 He responds to a common refrain that the Palestinians are frustrated from a lack of progress: (1) In 2000, the Palestinians were offered a state by Israel, and