http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20080226113621903C487584 Paris – Al-Qaeda is staking new terrain – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – taking advantage of the chaos reigning in Gaza and the radicalisation of part of Palestinian public opinion, analysts say. Signs are mounting that the international netowrk is…
read morehttp://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2008/issue1/jv12no1a2.asp John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s assertion that the Israel lobby, acting as an agent of Israel, has turned American foreign policy into a tool of Zionism and hurt the national interest is based on their realist view of international…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/25/AR2008022502224.html It begins with a single Qassam rocket, one of the thousands of homemade projectiles fired in recent years by the Islamic radicals of Hamas from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. The rockets have made life nightmarish for many…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957982.html Israel is the only member of the United Nations that is being openly threatened with destruction – not just as a country but as a Jewish state. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who never loses an opportunity to sow hatred…
read morehttp://docstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/world-renowned-bernard-lewis-delivers.html The Jerusalem Conference concluded Wednesday night with a packed-house lecture by Bernard Lewis, a world-renowned expert on Islamic history and the relationship between Islam and the West. An author of 30 books, Lewis coined the phrase “clash of civilizations”…
read morehttp://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=11884 One of the most compelling things about Imad Mughniyeh’s assassination is the nature of the description and image that various parties use to depict him. For Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and their supporters in Lebanon, such as followers of General…
read morehttp://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29010_Israeli_and_Saudi_Ambassadors_Trade_Shots&only There’s an interesting exchange in the National Post between the Israeli and Saudi ambassadors to Canada, starting with this op-ed by Alan Baker stating some simple facts about: The poisonous myth of ‘Israeli apartheid’. Israel is a liberal democracy,…
read morehttp://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3509523,00.html “Restrain us, or we will declare our independence.” This has become a regular Palestinian declaration that is uttered once every few years, usually when negotiations are at a dead end. This week, it was the threat uttered by Yasser…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/02/ahmadinejad_israel_mass_killings/ Editor’s note: The following is a comment to an article by Stephen Rosen posted to MESH. I, too, agree with Stephen Rosen that Ahmadinejad’s recent words reducing Israel and its people to the status of a disease should serve…
read morehttp://www.juedische.at/TCgi/_v2/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=10&Param_Red=9382 Eine seltsame Einladung in meinem elektronischen Postkastl. Pax Christi (Menschen machen Frieden) und die Ökumenische Landesgruppe OÖ sowie das Evangelische Bildungswerk Linz-Innere Stadt laden mich zu einer Lesung ins Gemeindezentrum der Evangelischen Pfarrgemeinde A.B. Linz-Innere Stadt ein. Die Lesung…
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