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http://www.bitterlemons.org/ We can generally distinguish between two strategies for dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first strategy assumes that conflict resolution is basically within reach if the right formula is presented to the warring parties. The concessions required on the…
read moreAlthough it might be appropriate to take action in the situation between Israel and some of its neighbours, your Editorial of Aug 12 (p 553)1 is more political than medical and woefully slanted against Israel. For thinking people, war is…
read more“Perhaps to remain a poet in such circumstances is also to reach the heart of politics. The human feelings, human experiences, the human form and face, recover their proper place – the foreground.” Saul Bellow’s description of the function of…
read moreIn the title of an article that appeared in the French weekly Valeurs Actuelles in December 2005, the journalist Michel Gurfinkiel asked “Is Freedom of Speech under Threat in France?” Gurfinkiel’s question was prompted by threats of legal action against…
read moreThe following are excerpts from an address delivered by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on Jaam-e Jam 1 TV on October 20, 2006. In the address, Ahmadinejad stated that the U.S. was extorting the entire world using the Holocaust…
read moreThe words we use and the statements we make define who we are, what we believe. The more accurate our pronouncements are, the closer we are to the truth and to understanding each other. The better the understanding, the more…
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Corrie, surrounded by Muslims, burning a flag that’s part American and part Israeli Play about a ‘martyr’ is potent symbol of rising intellectual tide of Israel delegitimization The deplorable state of Middle East Studies on college campuses has been a…
read moreUltimately, religion defines identity among Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, and is the basic element upon which the Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel is based. In parallel, the Arab political awakening and worldview also draws its…
read moreSo you probably have had a few scary professors under your belt at Wesleyan. For me, the scariest usually wear bow-ties. But whatever, Old Trout Magazine lists Kevin MacDonald, Psychology Professor at California State – Long Beach as the country’s…
read moreHarvard University needs a better sense of humor. Only an institution suffering from an excess of self-importance could fail to see the joke in inviting a former president of the world’s largest state sponsor of Islamist terrorism to give a…
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