Israel is a free, democratic, open, and relentlessly self-analytical place. To hear harsh criticism of Israel’s policies and leaders, listen to the Israelis. So questioning Israel for its actions is legitimate, but lies are something else. Throughout human history, they…
read morehttp://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/546130,CST-EDT-hunt07.article # It’s no secret that the Israeli lobby has a record of success. A number of strongly motivated organizations advocate for Israel, a cause that enjoys the favorable sentiment as well as financial support of American Jews and others.…
read morehttp://www.nysun.com/article/62283 The Ford Foundation, which came under congressional scrutiny in 2003 for supporting groups committed to destroying Israel, is again drawing censure from elected officials and watchdog groups, this time for funding a panel at Columbia University highlighting a professor…
read morehttp://commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/schoenfeld/898 One of the oddest moments comes when he recommends that Americans read the works of two authors, Noam Chomsky and Michael Scheuer. Scheuer, who ran the CIA’s al-Qaeda unit from 1996 to 1999, has been making a great name…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com 7/9/2007- A crop of Israel’s critics — most prominently Jimmy Carter and now Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, the authors of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” — have managed something of a feat: They express no concerns…
read morehttp://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-why-we-should-condemn-the-academic-boycott-of-israel-1271.html The University and College Union’s (UCU) proposed academic boycott of Israel has attracted opposition from many people who might usually be numbered among Israel’s harshest critics. The (Palestinian) President of Jerusalem’s Al Quds University is among those opposing the…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090301085_pf.html NO ONE would say that Israel is soft on terrorism, which makes it all the more fascinating that a country that essentially lives under siege provides so many legal accommodations to those it detains as unlawful combatants. It’s a…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300719_pf.html Hatred of Jews has reached new heights in Europe and many points south and east of the old continent. Last year I chaired a blue-ribbon committee of British parliamentarians, including former ministers and a party leader, that examined the…
read morehttp://jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=376&PID=0&IID=1795&TTL=Understanding_the_U.S.-Israel_Alliance:_An_Israeli_Response_to_the_Walt-Mearsheimer_Claim Contrary to the assertions of Professors Stephen Walt of Harvard University and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, who claim that no compelling strategic argument can explain American support for Israel, which they argue has been promoted by…
read moreIn an article in the Saudi daily Al-Watan, Saudi columnist Sa’ud Al-Balawi criticized attempts by Saudi religious streams to sabotage the country’s annual cultural events, thereby transforming Saudi Arabia into a Taliban society, isolated from the rest of the world.…
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