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One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications…
read moreA few days ago, I received an e-mail about the Middle East from a fellow Daily Pennsylvanian writer. He called Israel’s actions in Lebanon “disproportionate” and said too many U.S. Jews “refuse to look at Israel critically and…equate criticism of…
read moreEver since the Hamas attack on the Israeli army post at Kerem Shalom in late June, the zeitgeist in Israel has been that the unilateral “disengagement” from Gaza was apparently a strategic mistake. When Hizbullah poured gasoline onto the fire…
read moreEdward H. Kaplan School of Management, Yale University; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University; Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yale University Charles A. Small Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, Institute for the Study of…
read moreIf by chance you have the search engine LexisNexis and you punch in the words “Israel” and “disproportionate,” you run the risk of blowing up your computer or darkening your entire neighborhood. Just limiting the search to newspapers and magazines…
read moreThe current round of hostilities between Israel and its enemies differs from prior ones in that it’s not an Arab-Israeli war, but one that pits Iran and its Islamist proxies, Hamas and Hizbullah, against Israel. This points, first, to the…
read moreDiscussions about security arrangements in Lebanon at the end of the war have included the proposal to station an international force in that country. Yet the UN has a very bad name in terms of confronting strong forces in areas…
read morehttp://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives19.html Executive Summary: The current Israeli operation in Lebanon focuses on removing the threat posed to Israel by Hizballah missiles and on destroying Hizballah’s military infrastructure. Israel’s use of force is fully justified and proportionate, considering the magnitude of the…
read moreMr. Ajami, a 2006 Bradley Prize recipient, is the Majid Khadduri Professor and director of the Middle East Studies Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book, “The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans,…
read moreTHE latest battles in the 60-year struggle in the Middle East seem to be going well for Israel. But the Israelis are also fighting on another front, one where victory is essential to their state’s survival – the battlefield of…
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