http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/08/opinion/edbrooks.php The U.S. brought no shortage of misconceptions into Iraq, but surely the longest lasting has been what you might call: Founding Fatherism. This is the belief that peace will come to the country when the nations political elites gather…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040601660.html The long-predicted national debate about national security policy has yet to occur. Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will confront: how to distill a new international order from three simultaneous revolutions occurring around…
read morehttp://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/04/07/2008-04-07_arabs_must_take_a_long_selfcritical_look.html There was a time centuries ago in Arab countries when intellectual introspection was common and the culture produced searching, self-critical scholarship in various arenas. That time is gone. Today, brave and questioning souls like Irshad Manji, who calls for…
read morehttp://www.metimes.com/International/2008/04/07/proof_of_irans_military_nuclear_program/3739/ Despite the very flawed and much publicized December National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran, the U.N. Security Council recently passed a third set of sanctions designed to force Iran to halt its nuclear program. Indeed, except for a few…
read moreAm 14. Februar 2008 wurde in der nordmarokkanischen Stadt Al Hoceima eine berberisch-jüdische Freundschaftsorganisation mit dem Namen Addakira Almouchtaraka (Mémoire Collective) gegründet. Sie ist die erste marokkanische Vereinigung, die den Schwerpunkt ihrer Arbeit auf die Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus legt. Bereits nach…
read more. With the publication of a joint study (with the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace) of Palestinian schoolbooks (read it at www.ajc.org ), AJC takes a stand on one of the basic and pervasive problems that have beset…
read morehttp://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/Perez/entry/the_ethnic_cleansing_of_the Today, more than ever, certain obscene canards are thrown at Israel in its war of words with those who seek to delegitimize the Jewish State. A cursory study at the many statements that derive from certain extremists sympathetic to…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/67643/kritik+und+warnungen+iranischer+konstitutionalisten Iranische Konstitutionalisten sind demokratische, parlamentarische Monarchisten. Sie vertreten das säkular-liberale Bürgertum des Iran. Im Iran kamen sie nie zum Zug, auch wenn sie sich seit über 100 Jahren für ein demokratisches Parlament einsetzen. Für die iranischen parlamentarischen Monarchisten sind…
read morehttp://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/03/28/george-jonas-on-the-new-generation-of-anti-semites-they-want-to-exterminate-not-just-excommunicate-jews.aspx The Jewish state will be 60 in May. Cause for celebration or mourning? Depends on whether you are a Palestinian or a Jew, some would say – but it’s not as simple as that. Not every Jew regards the…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632348924&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Last year, the European Journal of Public Health published an article arguing that had the United Nations, human rights organizations and the media used the term “genocide” rather than “ethnic cleansing” to describe events in Rwanda, Darfur and Bosnia,…
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