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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-israel_30edi.State.Edition1.279cf92.html Nobody with a conscience can look at the images of destruction and human suffering on the streets of Gaza without flinching. The pictures of the civilian victims of Israeli air strikes – especially children – are heart-rending. But let’s…
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In despair: Cover image from the Daily telegraph, December 29 2008 Photo: AP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4015994/Peace-in-Gaza-is-in-the-hands-of-Hamas.html The photograph on the front page of this newspaper yesterday captured the age-old tragedy of the Holy Land. At this time of year in particular, the…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051661.html Operation Cast Lead is a just campaign. Just, because in the summer of 2005 Israel destroyed all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and withdrew unilaterally to the international border. Just, because from 2006 to 2008 the Palestinian…
read morehttp://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-tragedy-when-a-regime-uses-its-citizens-as-tools-of-war-20081230-77cb.html?page=-1 IMAGINE your next-door neighbour – with whom you have had a long and bloody feud – pulling out a gun and shooting into your windows from his own lounge room, which is densely packed with women and children. In…
read morehttp://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1231/p09s02-coop.html Cambridge, Mass. – Israel’s decision to take military action against Hamas rocket attacks targeting its civilian population has been long in coming. I vividly recall a visit my wife and I took to the Israeli city of Sderot on…
read moreBy analyzing what al-Qa’ida preaches to Muslims regarding Islam’s relationship to the non-Muslim world at large, and what it states to the West are its reasons for battling it, this essay seeks to highlight the many disparities behind al-Qa’ida’s words.…
read moreFollowing Barack Obama’s election, experts discuss the various foreign policy issues the new administration faces and the strategies the administration might follow. Brief biographies can be found at the end of each section. CONTENTS Barry Rubin, “The Administration’s Theme: Conciliation…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/12/war-in-gaza-no-upside-for-egypt/ The events in Gaza over this weekend present a number of internal and external challenges for the Egyptian government, again raising questions about Cairo’s capacity to deal effectively with regional crises. Needless to say, the Israeli Air Force’s offensive…
read morehttp://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php The official end of the six-month ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza is not going to change very much in Israel-Hamas relations. Of course, it could change a lot for those Israelis and Palestinians who may now again be exposed…
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