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The Iranians know they cannot win a war against the United States. Their stated policy is to deter the U.S. and its allies by threatening a war that will cause such damage at such a price that this option will…
read moreThere’s a barely concealed wish among many old Mideast hands these days to just walk away from the steadily deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian situation. Armed thugs from Fatah are fighting it out with armed thugs from Hamas. Israel is building unilateral fences…
read moreThe Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), a New York City-based NGO, funded by the Ford Foundation and other philanthropies, claims to “promote social justice through human rights.”[1] However, CESR publications on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict promote a highly political…
read moreIn the coming days, leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA will take up a controversial issue – whether to divest from Israel. Why do these Presbyterians think as they do? Their critics overlook the obvious: It’s because of what’s being…
read moreCAMBRIDGE, MA — Peering out the window of one of this town’s many excellent coffeeshops, one could be forgiven for thinking that all is right at Harvard. The ancient pageantry of commencement, conducted this week, still inflects Harvard Square as…
read moreUnited Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed doubt over an Israel Defense Forces probe determining that the blast on a Gaza Strip beach last Friday that killed seven civilians was caused by a mine or explosive device, placed by…
read moreJune 13, 2006 Greetings, Below please find the link to the seventh Middle East Brief: “United States’ Policy Toward Hamas: An Initial Assesment” by Jeremy Pressman. This Brief analyzes the United States’ policy to isolate Hamas since its election to…
read moreMost Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel’s pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel’s right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture. The Palestinian president,…
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Don’t punish Israel; it’s not terror’s causeSunday, June 11, 2006MAURICE SHEVIN This week, the Presbyterian Church-USA is holding its Biennial General Assembly in Birmingham. This event has caused a serious dilemma for Birmingham’s Jewish community and other friends of Israel.…
read more(Irshad Manji is author of The Trouble with Islam Today, available at SPMEMart spme.org/spmemart.html at discounted prices. ) Three years ago, as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, I was putting the final touches on my book, The Trouble with…
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