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Last week CNN aired a heartrending videotape of a “dying” Palestinian child receiving “CPR,” ostensibly one more Gazan victim of Israel’s inhumanity. It was quickly blogged on by alert medical professionals as an obvious hoax. The “war crime” was a…
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Wie gefährlich und totalitär ist das iranische Regime? Wer hat seine Nuklearisierung unterstützt? Ein gut recherchierter Sammelband gibt Antwort. VON MICHA BRUMLIK Machtdemonstration: Bomben-Präsentation bei Militärparade im Iran. Foto: reuters Die in Europa erwartete grundsätzliche Neuorientierung der US-amerikanischen Politik gegenüber…
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Seth Frantzman is a PhD student in Geography at the Hebrew University, a contributor to the Jerusalem Post, Frontpage magazine and Middle East Quarterly and runs the Terra Incognita blog. (sfrantzman@hotmail.com ). It was a war between a “well-trained and…
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This past week I was privileged to receive an advance copy of the soon to be released (March 31, 2009, according to the publisher, Random House ) first time English translation of Grigoris Balakian’s epic personal memoir of the Armenian…
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Jimmy Carter does not apologize for the historically inaccurate and inappropriate use of the word “apartheid” to describe the security wall that has effectively prevented Hamas suicide bombers from killing and maiming Israelis in restaurants and discotheques. He does not…
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It is now five years after the death of Edward Said, the man who made it cool to hate the West, and the reevaluation of his thought and work is thankfully well underway. Said forged a career out of revisiting…
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Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky United States Institute of Peace Press, 191 pp., $16.50 (paper) $16.63 @ SPMEMart, Click here to purchase Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of…
read moreRita Simon and Jeffrey Schaler, Editors Volume 26, Numbers 3-4 / December, 2007 Special Issue: Anti-Semitism the World Over in the Twenty-First Century Interested persons can download the text for free at http://www.schaler.net/cp.html , or order a hard copy through…
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Here is a translation of a review by Shmuel Trigano of Andrew Bostom’s massive The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism. The French original, “Vers une histoirede L’ANTISÉMITISME en Islam: un livre événement,” appeared in the November 9, 2008 issue of Controverses…
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Bernhard Kuschey ist es gelungen, mit dieser Doppelbiographie anhand umfangreicher Studien historischer Dokumente, Briefe und zum Teil sehr persönlich gehaltener Berichte von Zeitzeugen nicht nur das persönliche Schicksal zweier Menschen nachzuzeichnen, deren Leben durch Faschismus und Krieg und Rückkehr zahlreiche…
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