Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Isi Leibler: British Jewry in Crisis

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409638498&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The call for a boycott against Israeli academicians by the British University and College Union (UCU) reflects the depths to which vicious hostility against Israel has become ingrained in British society.It is an abomination for “educators,” purporting to be…

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Joel Brinkley: Getting up Close and Personal with Hamas

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/24/EDGONP1JNA1.DTL IN THE GAZA Strip last week, Hamas fighters grinned and preened as they drove around in new Jeep Cherokees seized from Fatah leaders in their successful coup. Hamas is now in undisputed control of Gaza, but calling that a…

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Gil Troy: We Can Unite In Opposing Iran

http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=6049 Month after month, the Islamic Republic of Iran gets closer and closer to securing nuclear weapons, while the West appears more and more impotent. Tragically, but predictably, in the polarized red-blue era of President George W. Bush, the Iran…

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Michael Oren: Fatah isn’t the Answer

America and its Middle Eastern allies have every reason to panic. The green flags of Hamas are furling over Gaza and the al-Fatah forces trained and financed by the United States have ignominiously fled. Fears are rife that Iranian-backed and…

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Caroline Glick: Grounded in Fantasy

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813065538&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Iran and its client state Syria have a strategic vision for the Middle East. They wish to take over Lebanon. They wish to destroy Israel. They wish to defeat the US in Iraq. They wish to drive the US…

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Amir Taheri: Gaza: Teheran’s Greater Game

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/gaza__tehrans_greater_game_opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm WHO sets Hamas strategy? As the radical Palestinian movement braces itself for what could be a long struggle against its rival Fatah, if not a full-blown civil war, the question merits more than mere academic interest. Just days after…

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Mohammed Daraghmeh: Hamas Lying in Wait in West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hamas leaders in the West Bank have been driven underground by a Fatah campaign of kidnappings and arrests, but the Islamic militants warn they’ll eventually come out of hiding to try to destabilize the rule of…

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Thomas L. Friedman: Behind the Masks

Every war has THE picture that captures its essence, and the Palestinian civil war in Gaza is no exception. My nominee would be the photograph of a Hamas fighter in Gaza, lounging in a senior Fatah official’s office over which…

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Barbara Kay: Academic Freedom under Seige

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=0e60d776-c9b5-4986-8375-55ab4a454897 In the annals of dubious achievements a “first” by academics in a democratic country: On May 30, British academics representing the Union of Colleges and Universities (UCU) voted in favour (158-99, 17 abstentions) of boycotting their professional (Israeli) peers.…

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Clash of Civilisations

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/16/dl1602.xml The events this week in Gaza, with what passed for the authority there being overwhelmed by forces supporting an Islamic state, create a new, dangerous situation not merely in the Middle East but also for the world. Israel has…

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