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Michael Gove: Anti-Semitism is Finding New Allies on Bboth Right and Left

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3653736.ece If even Ed Stourton doesn’t get it, there really is a problem. Stourton is not just an exceptionally civilised voice on Radio 4, he’s also one of broadcasting’s most thoughtful figures. As well as Today, he occasionally fronts Sunday,…

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Sidney Zabludoff: The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=2091&TTL=The_Palestinian_Refugee_Issue:__Rhetoric_vs._Reality The sixty-year-old Palestinian refugee issue has little connection with reality. It has become solely a bargaining chip used by Arabs and Palestinians in peace talks with Israel and, as such, is a distraction from the real issues of terrorism…

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Editorial in Saudi Paper: Arab-Israeli Peace Is Possible

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD188408 In a March 28, 2008 editorial, the Saudi daily Al-Watan wrote that the peace accords between Israel and Egypt prove that an Arab-Israeli peace is possible, and that such a peace agreement must address all aspects of the Palestinian…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Frauenmorde im Iran

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/66729/frauenmorde+im+iran Immer mehr Männer und inzwischen zunehmend Frauen ermorden ihre Gatten. Dieses bittere neue soziale Phänomen wird im Iran „Gattenmord” genannt, „Hamsarkoshi”. „Frauenmord ist unser natürliches Recht” Die Frauenrechtlerin Marjan Leqai hat die iranischen Zeitungen für den Zeitraum von einem…

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Paul Bogdanor: Juden, die den jüdischen Staat hassen

„Wenn sie [die Juden] sich in Israel sammeln, dann wird es uns den Ärger ersparen, sie in der ganzen Welt zu suchen“ Scheich Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah Chef „Ich sage das ohne Angst: diejenigen die an Freiheit und Würde glauben, wir…

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Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Hillel Goes Post-Modern

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632378101&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Post-modernist thinking has made massive inroads at all levels, not excluding the Jewish political world, where references to right and wrong or good and evil have become rare, replaced by a politically correct lexicon. Recent controversies involving the Jewish…

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Jonathan Spyer: Imagined Partners

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969543.html The Middle East is currently divided between an alliance of radical Islamist and associated states and organizations, which take support and inspiration from Iran, on the one hand, and a coalition of pro-Western states, on the other. The “Annapolis…

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Rafael Medoff: Columbia, Ahmadinejad, and Nazi Germany: Round Two

http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?mode=a&sectionid=61&contentid=30888&contentName=Columbia,%20Ahmadinejad,%20and%20Nazi%20Germany:%20Round%20Two Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his speech at Columbia University last year by inviting the students and faculty to visit Iran. Some critics responded by comparing the idea of visiting Iran to the carefully-choreographed visits of Americans to Nazi…

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Marc Shoffman: Here We Go Again

http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/c-8727/here-we-go-again/ The University College Union is once again set to debate a motion supporting an academic boycott of Israel, even though a similar resolution last year was dropped after being deemed unlawful. The National Executive voted last Friday to submit…

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Anthony Elghossain: American Think Tank Paints Hizbullah as Bought and Paid for by Tehran

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=90139 BEIRUT: In a recently published report, entitled “Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a pro-Israeli think tank, seeks to link the growing strategic importance of Iran in the region with the concurrent…

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