http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/11/middle-east-obama-peace/print President Obama’s efforts to revive the Middle East peace process are bound to fail because of the unbridgeable divide separating Israel’s and Palestine’s political goals. The minor problems are Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu ‘s unwillingness to partition Jerusalem…
read morehttp://www.newmajority.com/israel-denounced-for-what-it-is The Toronto International Film Festival will this year feature a film from Malaysia. Nobody will picket or denounce this movie on the grounds that a Malaysian judge last month sentenced a woman to a public caning for drinking beer…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/154310/verfall+der+religioesen+despotie+im+iran Der Philosoph Abdolkarim Soroush kritisiert in einem Brief an den Revolutionsführer Ali Khamenei den “Verfall der religiösen Despotie” im Iran. Soroush verwendet gar den Begriff Faschismus. Indessen befürchtet der Politikwissenschaftler Sadegh Zibakalam eine zweite “islamische Kulturrevolution”. Abdolkarim Sorush hat…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574402583170409334.html President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed two months ago that at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh this month they would “re-evaluate Iran’s posture towards negotiating the cessation of a nuclear weapons policy.” That reassessment cannot come too…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112316.html Later this month, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, U.S. President Barack Obama will take the podium at the United Nations General Assembly and, flanked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, declare the resumption of…
read moreSPME Faculty Forum editor’s note: This piece was submitted by Itzhak Levav M.D. Advisor in Research to the Israel Ministry of Health. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=106006 Ever since the reins of power in Israel were turned over to Benjamin Netanyahu by former Prime…
read morehttp://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/article4451968/Ueberall-Kollaborateure.html Es hätte alles so heimelig werden können. Berliner Antirassisten unter sich. Doch dann platzte dem eingeladenen Historiker der Kragen: Seine Erkenntnisse störten wohl nur den “sogenannten Diskurs”, polterte Historiker Götz Aly und verließ die Pressekonferenz, auf der, wie er…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-carmi1-2009sep01,0,1196867.story As president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, I have always remained open and impartial to the wide diversity of opinions within our academic faculty and their right to free speech, no matter how controversial their views or writings…
read morehttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/31/gordon Neve Gordon has no illusions about the ability of Palestinian terrorists to harm Israelis. In 1986, while serving as a paratrooper on Israel’s border with Lebanon, he suffered severe injuries from hand grenades and bullets. These days, Gordon is…
read morehttp://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3709&q=1 Gordon is a tenured lecturer at Israel’s Ben Gurion University and was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan for two semesters. As if the University of Michigan did not have enough outlandish anti-Israel professors that operate major…
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