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At this very moment, the foreign policy teams of Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are planning their Middle East strategy. At this stage, it isn’t presumptuous to do so-to the contrary, it would be negligent not to. Papers…
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http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=299 Rethinking the Two-State Solution Giora Eiland Format: PDF, 57 PagesPublished: September 2008 Price: Free DownloadFile Size: 2.5 MB As the Bush administration draws to a close, various parties are looking to capitalize on the momentum generated by last year’s…
read morehttp://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c55_a13440/Editorial__Opinion/Opinion.html Last Shabbat we read in the Torah that descendents of Moav and Ammon could never become part of the Jewish people, even though such a prohibition did not apply to others who sought to destroy the Jewish people. The…
read morehttp://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/55703 At first glance, the Joseph Massad tenure battle looks like one of the most civil academic controversies ever to engulf Columbia’s Middle Eastern studies community. Phrases like “tenure battle” and “controversy” read like overstatements-there have been no petitions, no…
read morehttp://www.faz.net/s/RubCF3AEB154CE64960822FA5429A182360/Doc~EE3683FD3B4784A4F96BCD6F57DE78243~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Arno Lustiger 18. September 2008 Die Judenfeindschaft ist so alt wie die jüdische Diaspora, mehr als zweitausend Jahre. Schon um das Jahr 100 nach Christus widerlegte der jüdisch-römische Historiker Josephus Flavius eindrucksvoll die kruden judenfeindlichen Ergüsse des alexandrinischen Schriftstellers…
read morehttp://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/themen/gesellschaft/gesellschaft-single/datum/17/09/2008/mit-allen-mitteln-judenhass-in-alle-lande/ Islamistische Fernsehkanäle sind die heute wirkungsvollsten Medien, die Propagandisten des islamischen Antisemitismus zur “Gehirnwäsche der Muslime” nutzten. Das sagte der Hamburger Politikwissenschaftler Matthias Küntzel auf einer Tagung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, die am Mittwoch in Berlin stattfand. Dabei ging es um…
read morehttp://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17094/ The eminent doyen of Middle East Studies Bernard Lewis noted that the success of Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was in being able to transform a term that had always referred to an area of academic specialty focusing on societies…
read morehttp://www.hagalil.com/01/de/Israel.php?itemid=2784 Tzipi Livni wurde nicht zur Kandidatin für das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten gewählt, weil sei eine Frau ist. Auch nicht, weil sie eine ‚Zivilistin’ ist. Nicht weil sie rechts und nicht weil sie links ist. Sie wurde gewählt, weil sie…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2582 Until recently, Jordan was the only Arab country that had boycotted the fundamentalist Hamas movement. However, in 2007 Jordanian intelligence held a series of meetings with Hamas leaders to end hostile relations and start afresh. Jordan’s greatest fear is…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020490.html When I first started professionally monitoring and studying anti-Semitism almost 30 years ago, there was, broadly speaking, a shared understanding of what it was. True, historians differed over a precise definition – quite understandably, given that the term was…
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