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John R. MacArthur: The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/04/jrm-pubnote-20070417 Originally from The Providence Journal , April 16, 2007 Given my dissident politics, I should be up in arms about the Israel lobby. Not only have I supported the civil rights of the Palestinians over the years, but two…

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Saudi Hypocrisy

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152818449&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Contrary to its solemn undertakings, Saudi Arabia has not dropped its anti-Israel trade boycott, as reported in a Jerusalem Post news article on Monday. This travesty has continued for nearly a year and a half. Worse yet, it is…

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Greg Collins: Unethical Sponsorship

http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/04/12/EditorialOpinion/Unethical.Sponsorship-2836258.shtml The time has come for UMass’ academic departments to be held responsible for particular speakers and events they sponsor on campus. No departments deserve more scrutiny here than those of political science and sociology, as well as the Middle…

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Thomas von der Osten Sacken: Deutsche Akademiker machen mobil: Rettet Ahmed-Nijad

http://www.wadinet.de/news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=2904 In seinem kürzlich auch in deutscher Übersetzung erschienenen Buch „Krieg der Welt“ bemerkt der Historiker Nial Fergusson, dass Akademiker und ganz besonders Professoren die opportunistischste und korrupteste Berufsgruppe des Dritten Reiches stellten. Ohne ihre intellektuellen Mittäterschaft, sei es im…

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Café Critique: Fight Islamic Fascism! Kein Dialog mit Antisemiten!

http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/_v2/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=16&Param_RB=&Param_Red=7651 In Österreich ist alles möglich. Wenn man hierzulande etwas wissen will über das Regime in Teheran, das Israel vernichten möchte, lädt man sich einen Vertreter eben dieses Regimes des Vernichtungswahns ein. Und wenn man darüber diskutieren möchte, wie man…

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Alan Dershowitz: Palestinians and the ‘Right of Return’

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0416/p09s01-coop.html Among the major barriers to peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis is the so-called right of return. In its broadest formulation, this “right” belongs to some 4 million alleged descendants of the 700,000 or so Palestinian Arabs who…

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Bilal Y. Saab and Bruce O. Riedel: Hezbollah and Al Qaeda

WASHINGTON: There is a general suspicion among parts of the intelligence community in Washington that Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, despite their differences, have cooperated in the past and continue to cooperate on jihad-related activities against the United States and its…

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David Brooks: A War of Narratives

On the Dead Sea, Jordan I just attended a conference that was both illuminating and depressing. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and the American Enterprise Institute, and the idea was to…

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