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Paula Stern: Nadia’s Future Work?

http://www.paulasays.com/articles/nadia_el_haj/future.html As disturbing as Nadia El Haj’s past work is, her future “research” seems to be even more chilling. Nadia Abu El Haj, has announced her intention to write what her colleague Joseph Massad describes as “a book about the…

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O. Winter: Darfur in the Arab Press

To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit:http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=IA35107 . The ongoing massacre in Darfur, which has been raging since 2003, receives scant coverage in most of the Arab media. The few articles that appear on the subject generally minimize the…

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Shlomo Avineri: Until They Accept Responsibility

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/857767.html The Palestinians will mark the annual Nakba Day on May 15, as they have done in previous years. We must listen to their voices. As human beings and as Jews we must listen and be attentive to the other’s…

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Avi Issacharoff: Ignoring the Chaos

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/855677.html For several weeks now the Gaza Strip has been burning. This is not a matter of fighting between Hamas and Fatah activists or actions by the Israel Defense Forces, but battles between armed groups that for the most part…

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Alan M. Dershowitz: Finkelstein’s Bigotry

In her 1951 best seller, “The Groves of Academe,” Mary McCarthyfictionalized a failed academic who, realizing he wouldn’t get tenure,became a communist so that he could claim that he was being denied tenurebecause he was a Red rather than a…

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Benjamin Berg: Finkelstein Distorts Facts to Fit Agenda

Norman Finkelstein’s willful distortions of fact and inability to present a cogent academic argument were an insult to Brandeis and the academic standard to which its students should hold themselves. Furthermore, his belittling of both University President Jehuda Reinharz and…

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Naomi Chazan: Commentary: Resolving the Leadership-Public Paradox

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070502-103147-3700r The exploration of possibilities for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has highlighted a familiar paradox: the uneasy relationship between respective leaders and their publics in the delicate context of peace talks. Today, the limited legitimacy accorded Ehud Olmert and…

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Dore Gold: Misreading Arab-Israeli Diplomacy

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Mecca Agreement served the function of not renouncing violence along with the generic demands of the international community. It also created a fusion between the alleged moderate branch of the Palestinian Authority headed by Fatah leader Abbas,…

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