Analysis

To the Editors, Today’s editorial, “Pragmatism and Peace” (SF Chron, 2/04/04) http://sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/04/EDGMO4NHAH1.DTL, is comprehensive, but it omits one crucial component of the formula for peace in the Middle East. Since 1937, the UK, the UN, Israel and/or the USA have…

What would be the reaction of LRB readers if a senior lecturer at a British university were to start a discussion of World War Two with the bombing of Dresden by the RAF, without first mentioning the invasion of Poland…

(The Honorable Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP when he wrote this article, is now Canada’s Minister of Justice). [This paper was originally published by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute in November 2002.] What we are witnessing today…is a new,…

I always wanted to be the first woman who sacrifices her life for Allah. My joy will be complete when my body parts fly in all directions. These are the words of female suicide terrorist Reem Reyashi, videotaped just before…

I was fortunate to visit many places in Judea and Samaria, but one place I did not see was Hebron. “Too dangerous,” I was told, which only increased my admiration for the Jewish communities there. In a land replete with…

Madam, Sir, I am a French jewish journalist. I live in an apartment in a good neighborhood in Paris. I am the owner of the apartment. My parents are also owners of another apartment in the same building. They are…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=107460907234 3&apage=2 ‘Anyone concerned with what’s happening in our world ought to spend some time reading the Koran.” Andy Rooney, the famed CBS commentator, gave this advice shortly after 9/11, as did plenty of others. His suggestion makes intuitive sense,…

Since his arrest on November 29, 2003, Bangladeshi journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, has been hauled before the court more than half a dozen times. Each time, the result was the same. Choudhury was returned to prison for “interrogation,” with…

(Ed Morgan is a law professor at the University of Toronto and a member of SPME. He also founded Canadian Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a separate organization from SPME) Having denounced as illegal the building of a…

Professor of Anthropology McGill University Member, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board of Directors The unrelenting rejection by Arabs of Israel doesn’t make a lot of sense. One would think that the Arabs, who currently struggle to get…