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With the US in danger of failing in Iraq and Israel thwarted in Lebanon, Iran sensed a historic opportunity last summer to spread its influence, make itself safer, roll back the US and promote Islamic solutions in the region. A…
read moreDespite optimistic forecasts of Fatah and Hamas reaching a compromise in Mecca, there is no doubt that the Palestinian national movement is at one of its lowest points in history. This stems from the fact that the Palestinians, who claim…
read moreFirst of all, I would like to thank the conference organizers for inviting me to speak at this important and central event. I was asked to speak about the existential dangers threatening the State of Israel. One danger known to…
read moreSeptember 25, 2006The Editor, AcademeAAUP1012 Fourteenth St. NW/Suite 500Washington, DC 20005-3465 As a long-standing member of the AAUP for over 30 years, I was troubled by theproposed meeting on the Israeli academic boycott. First, the framing of the question dictates…
read moreThe day the first Arab-Muslim minister in the country’s history assumes his post is a day of celebration for Israeli democracy and Jewish independence in our country. The state, which was established to correct a historic injustice suffered by a…
read moreFifteen years ago, after the first defeat of Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush and his Secretary of State James Baker faced the question of how best to exploit the American victory as a means…
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Books & Culture, January/February 2007 Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy, 1948-1967by Uri BialerIndiana Univ. Press, 2005240 pp., $39.95 Christian Zionism: Road-Map to Armageddon?by Stephen SizerInterVarsity, 2005298 pp., $29, paper Palestine: Peace Not…
read moreOutdated Cold war concepts, such as mutually assured destruction (MAD) are irrelevant when it comes to Iran, because the Iranian president and his circle see such a scenario “as an incentive, not a deterrent,” renowned scholar Bernard Lewis said during…
read moreOn this anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, the United Nations is making a show of its concern for genocide by holding the “International Day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.”…
read moreWESLEY CLARK, the retired general and once – and no doubt future – presidential candidate, says the United States is going to attack Iran. How does he know? Well, he told Arianna Huffington, “You just have to read what’s in…
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