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In his unrelenting attack against Israel – beginning with his screed Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and continuing in his media blitz – Jimmy Carter frequently invokes religion, in an apparent effort to turn religious Christians against the Jewish State. He…
read moreIt seems that everywhere one looks lately, former President Jimmy Carter is hawking his new book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.” The inflammatory title has not won Carter any new fans from the pro-Israel side of the equation. But for those…
read morePierre Heumann of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche spoke with Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh in Doha. This revealing interview appears here in English for the first time. -o- Mr. Sheikh, as the Editor in Chief of Al-Jazeera, you are one…
read moreThis is no real parallel with white South Africa In the six decades since the founding of Israel, there have been about one and a half new ideas for solving the most intractable problem on the map of the world.…
read moreWhat do Concordia University in Montreal, San Francisco State University, the University of California at Irvine, Columbia University, SOAS in London, the recently merged British academic teachers’ unions AUT and NATFHE, and MAUP University in Kiev have in common? Over…
read moreIsrael should not try to second-guess U.S. decisions about putting American soldiers in harm’s way. However, the specific strategy that the Baker-Hamilton report proposes for facilitating an American pullback in Iraq – the use of an international support group including…
read moreI recently returned from Beirut, where I participated in what Lebanese commentators have alternatively called a “historic moment,” or Lebanon’s “Second Revolution,” the results of which will reverberate for some time to come. I had gone to Lebanon to represent…
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http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=769 I won’t say anything about History Professor David Noble of York University in Toronto; I can’t afford to. However, the Toronto Star (22 Nov 2006) reports that Noble “is suing York University’s fundraising foundation and several Jewish organizations for…
read moreJERUSALEM, Dec. 5 (JTA) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is a man of good intentions. His tireless efforts to promote world peace, deeply rooted in his interpretation of his Christian duties, need to be recognized, even when they lead…
read moreFormer President Jimmy Carter’s use of the word “apartheid” in the title of his new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is highly regrettable, although it has certainly gained a great deal of publicity for the book. It is regrettable because…
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