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No. 543 5 Sivan 5766 / 1 June 2006 The U.S. military victory in Iraq did at first create a more congenial atmosphere among Palestinians for peace with Israel. However, the present situation in Iraq, as well as Iran and…
read moreA British higher-education teachers’ union passed a resolution on Israel at its annual conference recently that was stunning for its rejection of academic values and simple bigotry. The resolution calls Israel’s policies toward Palestinians “apartheid policies” and urges the union’s…
read moreAn anti-Israel and anti-Semitic wave is consuming England. Several groups are waging an aggressive war against Israel, and the battle has reached new heights of late. A group of British university lecturers with 67,000 members recently decided to support the…
read moreThe blustery beach front at Blackpool on a chilly bank holiday Monday seems a very long way – geographically and politically – from the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. But the final seaside gathering of the lecturers’ union Natfhe, before…
read moreCOMMENTARY BY www.washingtoninstitute.org If there is one thing that the Bush administration and its critics agree on, it is that we can not win the war on terror only through military means. So long as the greater Middle East is…
read moreSpeaking last October at a Tehran conference on “The World Without Zionism,” Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to Israel as a “disgraceful blot” and called for it to be “wiped off the map.” This was not an isolated or idle…
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IN THE 1980s, there was a concerted movement to make South Africa a pariah state because of its policy of racial apartheid. Today, a similar effort is directed at the state of Israel. A week ago, the anti-Israel campaign achieved…
read moreIntroduction:Dexter Van Zile, Christian Outreach Director and member of the Executive Committee for Christians For Fair Witness on the Middle East spoke at a conference organized by the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel in New York City on May…
read more[ SPME Editor’s Note- This content of this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. The article is simply printed as a source of information] (Reuters Photo) Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs…
read moreIf we trace the line between the West and the rest, Israel is on the same side as Europe, the U.S., Japan, and Australia. We defend the same values against the same enemies. Now it is imperative to defend our…
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