http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/72705/die+libanesische+hisbollah+und+die+iranische+konfrontationspolitik Die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur IRNA berichtete am 27. April von der Verhaftung von Karim Pakzad durch die „Brüder der Hisbollah in Beirut”. Pakzad ist Mitglied der Sozialistischen Partei in Frankreich und dort zuständig für den Iran. IRNA zufolge habe Pakzad…
read morehttp://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/05/10/pf-5527051.html The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth is a milestone as was every other such anniversary going back to that defining moment for Jews and non-Jews alike when David Ben-Gurion proclaimed independence of the Jewish state in Tel Aviv on…
read morehttp://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=1802 Negotiations toward a ceasefire in Gaza, mediated by Egypt and other channels, have been ongoing for some time. Now, however, Egypt’s efforts to convince Hamas and the other armed groups in Gaza to agree to a ceasefire while relinquishing…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/05/asmea_debut/ Ray Ibrahim is a member of Middle East Studies at Harvard As a person who had (more or less) vowed never to bother with most Middle Eastern conferences-I have been to too many farces on both the university and…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208246577144&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Many people put much faith into average college students, assuming that they are curious enough to explore every facet of information given them. But people who think this of college students are severely misguided. The majority of college students…
read morehttp://www.nypost.com/seven/05112008/postopinion/editorials/columbia_errs_again_110282.htm Columbia University has gone and done it again. Still under fire for a host of outrages – offering a platform to Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; tolerating faculty members’ harassment of pro-Israeli students and a blatant physical attack on a…
read morehttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23661578-15084,00.html IN the heart of a grey refugee camp surrounded by dog-eared photos of dead men, on the eve of Israel’s 60th Independence Day today, a crippled old Arab warlord sits reflecting on the future of his one-time sworn enemy.…
read morehttp://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/geoffrey_alderman/2008/05/geoffrey_and_the_boycott.html The idea of boycotting Israeli universities is unlawful, pointless and, finally, devoid of common sense I was the first member of my family to go to university. My dad knew nothing about universities, but a great deal about human…
read morehttp://www.newsweek.com/id/136085 A prominent Israeli historian explains why, after decades of research about the Jewish state, he now holds out little hope for reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians. I remember the moment when the Palestinian diaspora began to interest me, professionally.…
read morehttp://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=2082Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remains a controversial figure. The Palestinian leader, who was born in 1895 and died in 1974, first sparked controversy during his lifetime. As an officer in the Ottoman army during the First World…
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